THere is option to gift something to other players, they may also have pocket goldsellers they sell gold for real money through. Don’t be naive thinking people running this boosting business for flasks and store mounts.
His point was that none of the gold comes from Blizzard, it all comes from other players who, hopefully, have farmed that gold through legitimate means.
At heart all the token does is move money around it doesn’t, by itself, generate any gold. Obviously this doesn’t take into account that some players may go out and make more ingame gold than they would have doe otherwise in order to buy tokens from the AH, nor illegitimate means of making gold.
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Due to the nature of how and when I can play I have been tempted in the past to buy a boost for the AotC mount as I will probably never be able to raid with a guild and I do not have the faith in my own abilities to PUG at this time. I have not yet succumbed but I could see this being a common reason to pay for a boost.
As for the other advertised boosts for me personally I wouldn’t go out of my way to pay the exorbitant amount to buy tokens from Blizz but if I were a hardcore farmer or AH flipper who just wanted a bit of fun and gear then I might go for a boost or two.
All those that are too dumb to not understand the token system should just keep their mouths shut.
It’s not really hard to understand, the gold is sold by the player that buys the token from the AH.
There is NOWHERE that you can buy gold directly from Blizzard.
The token system generates zero gold, all it does it move existing gold from one player to another.
Just because Blizzard make money from the transactions doesn’t in any way mean they are selling gold.
Would you say that your local Cash Converters/pawnshop sells money ?
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i can promise you that a fair share of big boosters who boost for millions/month sell it for real money on other sites. its very lucrative income for quite some east european countries
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If someones gifting stuff left right and centre wouldn’t that flag their account in some way?
Oh ofc I know some sell gold for real money… it’s been around as long as WoW has… we have all seen the spam.
Do people ever really pay that though?
I have seen threads on here selling tcg mounts/pets for millions of gold.
The only way to combat this is make it that the content is not repetitive in the case of raid boosting in heroic/normal and m+.
Also to combat the multiboxers+boosters i would probably remove the WoW Balance aspect of the token and keep the time part only.People are buying wow accounts for balance and selling those on ebay and other wow account sites for nothing.For some people they treat it like a way on income so they go full on.
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I 5 box and wouldn’t mind this at all.
If you’re not on a densely populated server, they don’t even advertise spam trade.
If you are on a densely populated server, /leave trade
Simple as pie. I’m an old boomer (born in 1995) I bin playing this game since 2k08. Ain’t no way I will part with my coin to some Zoomer to play this ancient relic of a historically great game for me. Not 1 way in hells, also I won’t boost any1 in exchange for anything cause I don’t play this game to boost plebs.
But just cause I’m a selfish boomer doesn’t mean I care about other people doing their thing. Boosting communities are bubbles like no other, let them prosper, buy their tokens. But make a separate channel for the to spam in, trade chat is ruined on big pop servers. Give them a Boosting services channel where they can spam all day so I don’t have to see that filth.
Pie aint simple.
Do you have any idea how annoying it is to make one?
You ain’t a boomer, and I’m older than you.
Accept your millenial status.
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As of 2020, the breakdown by age looks like this:
- Baby Boomers : Baby boomers were born between 1944 and 1964. They’re current between 56-76 years old (76 million in U.S.)
- Gen X : Gen X was born between 1965 - 1979 and are currently between 41-55 years old (82 million people in U.S.)
- Gen Y : Gen Y, or Millennials, were born between 1980 and 1994. They are currently between 26-40 years old.
- Gen Y.1 = 25-29 years old (31 million people in U.S.)
- Gen Y.2 = 29-39 (42 million people in U.S.)
- Gen Z : Gen Z is the newest generation to be named and were born between 1995 and 2015. They are currently between 5-25 years old (nearly 74 million in U.S.)
You’re welcome, Gen Z baby.
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Hes not even old enough to be a millennial 
‘‘with 1981 to 1996 a widely accepted defining range for the generation’’
What was that?
I think it’s fine and besides you haven’t really outlined the problem, just the activity that is going on which by all standards is a legit way of doing business as in game currency is being used not RL.
If you would take some time to research a little bit about boosting you would find that all of the big ones on EU servers will instantly ban and often also publically distance themselves from that player.
Gallywix, Oblivion, Twiligt, Nova, Icecrown (formerly PRO Boosting), Garona, Spirit, Cloud, Sylvanas, Ravencrest Union & Hydra all accept only gold and will not tolerate any form of RMT. There are probably more communities but these are the ones that are at least somewhat established at the moment
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You’re extremely incorrect with your assumptions.
Slightly off topic but actually you’re Gen Z or iGen, depending on which metric you use. ‘Old’ boomers were born between '46 and '64.
I think the real problem here, as Blurey and Puny keep pointing out, is not the token it is the fact that everything is so repeatable these days. Back in my day (when all this were fields) you could only defeat a raid boss once per week and the top level of dungeons could only be done once per day. Now that the content is infinitely repeatable boosts are now exceptionally profitable. I would hope that SL will start to bring in restrictions on how much instanced content can be done no matter how much the playerbase cries about time-gating or whatever other gating they attribute it to.
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No, Millenials are those between 81’-'96, as I just posted.
According to what I have just read Millennial are '80-'94…