It’s not a crime.
It’s a potential civil issue that Blizzard would have to take to court.
Why not? What people do with their money is their business. You probably wouldn’t even know if you came across a booster/carry service player, so it’s not affecting you in any way at all.
Do you know who goes out of their way to report minor issues because of possible ToS violations? Narks.
As long as someone isn’t harassing people or openly cheating, does it really matter?
Because boosting shouldn’t have been a part of this game. When someone who can’t even do LFR right buys 2 tokens with money and gives it to Mr booster for that curve achievement, he gets a guaranteed chance to be a part of every raid you’re in. And when they’re in there, they SUCK. They don’t know mechanics, they end up wiping you over and over. And they basically paid to win.
Blizzard’s allowing that part, so the least we can do is to make sure the ones blizzard’s never allowing are burned to the ground.
when it’s about buying mounts or buying toys and pets, yes. Have at it. Waste thousands of dollars on blizzard bears and whatever else you can find. No one cares, except for asmongold perhaps.
But When it’s ACTUAL game content like ilvl boost, raid boost, dungeon boost, etc. The achievements you get from them later on affects people’s choices in raids, dungeons, etc picks. They pick you thinking now that you have a curve, you know what to do. Which will turn out to be wrong. Yesterday we had a curve tank in our raid who not only didn’t do basics right, but also missed a few mechanics and resulted in a couple of deaths until we kicked him at the next boss. There’s a difference between pay to look nice and pay to win.
i presume it will work like this spam Molten Core raid boost in Classic/Retial chat - find a buyer - take the gold from his retail char - boost him in classic.
Its legitimate.
Classic is going to be riddled with boosters.
Since it’ll require much more effort to actually get in raid state, it’s going to make getting boosted more attractive.
I agree, but I am also sure most Classic fans will be in permanent outroar while this will be allowed to go on.
Atm I want to see how Blizzard will plan to resolve gold trading and boosts.
By trading I mean retail gold and classic gold trade between two persons who play both. If it’s a grey area but allowed, there will be legitimate trade chat spam.
Since we have the same sub, I am sure there is an incentive even for legitimate gold boosters to play Classic.
OP is talking about sites that sell boosts for real money. Completely different thing.
When Blizzard wanted to reduce gold selling for real cash, they introduced wow tokens. Do you want in game cash shop have these boosts in future too? Buy your achievements and curve, buy raid gear? It is not different except on that case money would go to more trustable routes to Blizzard themselves, instead of having to deal with some fishy operators.
let’s see… If they ban gold boosters for Classic, like prohobit the Exhange of Classic services for the retail token gold as i mentioned above.
The illegal services will flourish in Classic to compensate the demand.
So… its not completely different, but more like mutually exclusive, either pick one or second one will grow.
I presume the outroar in a month or two from classic fans will be massive, Blizzy can cut off the legitimate gold booster, then illegal one with cash will take their place.
So I am fully ready to observe the incoming drama with my extra salty popcorn.
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Yeah but again this has nothing to do with gold or banning gold boosting (in OP). It was about people having websites where you can buy raid boosts and achievements with euros. Like someone here quoted 400 euro for Mechadone for example. I don’t quite follow you why you keep switching it to talking about boosts payed with gold, did you start saturday drinks earlier without offering me some too? Or maybe i need more coffee to wake up. 
Or maybe you are talking about concequences here… hmmm… i think i need that coffee!
Radium, ma mon. I would never do that.
I am speaking only about doomed state of current system. it will be even more obvious in classic where the audience is way more purist in their opinion on boosts.
The reality of current boost system is that almost all top guild involved in it whether it’s gold or cash and cutting it off isn’t on the Blizzard table, cause it’s will axe many competitive players from wow as much as casual rich dudes.
So the best thing they can do is too establish in game clean and legit boosting mechanics. its pointless to ban sites without it.
I agree. And i must assure i am not THAT sleepy that i would think they could ban some websites anyway. I was just disgusted perplexed surpriced to see so many (not you) on this thread thinking selling boosts/achievement for euros is absolutely fine.
I don’t raid myself so my stand on gold boostin is sort of: If you (not you Pod but in general as raider) want to invalidate the value of content you do by running others trough it for gold instead of keeping that content exclusive just for skilled ones, it’s cool.
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im boosting alot for gold only. and as i see the demand, there are many buyers around, it should be legal to get paid irl currency, imagine ppl like me getting paid for something they love, soon it will be legal in games, this is new kind of jobs thats needed in a world where technology takes jobs from just about any one, and worse it will become as tech advances… imo it should be a platform/ ui ingame, that let skilled players boost others, and with a money back if the boost service fail within timers and so on.
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It’s not a crime. (Although I wouldn’t be surprised if it is in Korea.)
Boosting for real money is strictly against the ToS.
The prices are going to be a real pain in the behind if it became legal because everyone would start doing it.
Would you continue boosting if it payed 25% of what it does now? Or even just 10%?
yes, because i play the game for fun, why i boost is only to get easy gold atm. if i could earn money from my hobby. or even go abit in + after subs and DLC/exp. that would be good for me lolo…
Oh ok b…
Wait so which is it then?
i would rather have irl money than gold if i could. gold is so easy to get anyways
Can easily be a violation/abuse of Blizzard’s brand, intellectual property or name, they most likely can take actions against those.
It is just highly time consuming and once they managed to take down one, it will reappear in mere seconds under an even more exotic domain extension - making it even more time taking.
It is pointless, not impossible.
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Interesting. I do wonder if those that are happy for someone to pay RL money to a website for a boost would be equally happy if the Blizz store offered the same service and made the whole system pay to win. There’s definitely a danger of that happening if this sort of thing keeps going on as it’s happened before: Gold sellers made money…they got removed…Blizz started selling tokens that players can sell for in game gold so the money goes to them and not a seller.
As mentioned above. It’s only a matter of time before those that have genuinely run content get zero kudos from it as everyone assumes they’ve paid for a boost.
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The sites that sold services for real money, also hacked and stole people’s accounts. Why anyone would support them. 
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