However there are OTHER massive gold boosting operations and taking into account the massive amount of golds being transfered, it is highly likely gold is always getting sold.
Icecrown community on discord is one, there are likely others.
Apparently low estimates is that this galli thing community has lost 5.6 Billion gold.
let that sink in a moment. These type of so called services are destroying the game and its spirit. They are helping in destroying the very meaning of achievement in this game and teaching people that you can buy anything and that the very essence of an mmo, doing things as a group, a guild, is useless, just buy yourself whatever you want!.
I hope blizzard realises the impact these gold services have, to both the game, its essence and its economy and that decisive action will be taken accross the board to deal with this.
A new “community” called Icecrown is taking over the one banned. May be blizz need to look into that one as well.
On he one hand, I vehemently oppose there being a real money market for boosting. That is absolutely against the spirit of World of Warcraft, and I’m glad they’re shutting that down.
On the other hand, that problem isn’t gone because of the WoW token.
It strikes me as bizarre that they kill Gallywix but not the WoW token. The only reason I can come up with is greed - and that’s a shame when I approve so much of the actions they’re taking.
Wen people making boosting communites as large as that, its very questionable what they will do with so much gold.
Certainly it ruins for those that does it just boost for gold and nothing shady what they did, but truly boosting is something i hope we see less cause it removes the commitment too take on challenges and participate with people, wheter it is guild or not. Specially Classic.
It strikes me as bizarre that they kill Gallywix but not the WoW token
Of course, with wow token blizzard is the one making money. Gallywix is making money off the backs of blizzard. Why is that weird that they would shut them down?
It’s more disappointing than anything else. On the one hand, I’m glad they’re doing it. On the other, I’m disappointed they’re not going the full length.
Wow should not turn into an industry , the leading devs should have kept the game as clean as possible . While they can’t ban every deviate behaviour they should still keep a healthy player’s base .
Botting , boosting , multiboxing , gold selling should be banned (6 years ) period .
It’s very easy to argue that multiboxing does more damage to the game than boosting.
If someone boosts someone to a Jaina mount or something, nothing in the game is effected by it, one person pays gold, they get a mount, the game chugs along as usual.
However, someone decides to multibox and they can literally tank an entire resource market on the AH by 25% overnight literally killing any and all interest for the average player to participate in the wow economy.
Since this, Gallywix seems to have gone into hiding in trade, haven’t seen a single person spamming from them. Anyone on the inside able to shed some light on the drama that’s happening inside the community?
I did, but it’s a bit vague. I would assume they mean just RMT advertising because advertising in game for gold isn’t against the ToS. IF they stop one boosting community from advertising for gold boosts in game why aren’t they stopping everyone?
Gallywix discord has been offline for several days. Just to clarify I am not a booster or involved with them in any way other than trying to win a long boi in their competitions.
But that blue post makes it sound like Gallywix is dead and future advertising will not be tolerated.
Killing the WoW token will just make a bigger market for buying gold for real money. The WoW token is a problem, but the situation without it is even a bigger problem. It’s not Blizz’s job to go against the market. This is capitalism, honey. The market will do what it wants, and the market wants to be able to skip gold farming by spending money. It will do this with or without Blizzard’s approval.
