I believe it’s time, Blizzard. We need more honesty after all. 
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Boosts are trades. Their time and skills for your gold.
I realise it’s prolific and many of us hide or opt out of the channel.
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Which is called a boost even though the concept is trading, so let’s call it what it is and rename Trade chat.
This is my point, and it shouldn’t really be like that but Blizzard allow it because it’s not against the TOS and they benefit from WoW token sales.
When people sell anything in trade they do not call it a trade. They say they are selling. Most commonly WTS.
Boosts are as old as the game. The difference is lockouts. Groups can endlessly rerun much content. The only exception is Mythic raids.
So the amount of WTS spam is constant. Boost communities even have people who just sit in trade and make bookings.
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I really don’t see the issue.
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Trade was used as a general chat room for years, because the Auction House made it pointless to post in the trade chat. Even before the boosting overload began, there was barely anyone selling or buying the mats or other stuff via trade chat.
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Boosts are a type of trade. As Puny said, they’re selling services for the in-game gold. That’s a form of trade.
Now, I’d personally love for them to make the general chat be server-wide, or just create a “server chat” for the purpose of casual chatting, but there’s nothing wrong with boosters using the trade chat to try and trade their services for gold.
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Just saying I believe you can get suspended for not blurring player names. Not certain but just be warned.
Only one not blurred is their own.
Ah my mistake.
This is why I left trade chat, but they do it in General in Orgrimmar too and of course group finder (which I report).
Either get rid of boosters or make a place for them to sell boosts (or “player services” if you don’t want to specifically condone boosting) and crack down hard on people doing it anywhere else, it’s getting annoying.
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Should be renamed spammer bot chat.
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I’ll never understand how is it possible for a game to completely allow selling and buying of high end content boosts of any kind. Imagine the same thing happening in another game.
Selling CSGO global elite rank boost.
Selling divine rank dota 2 boost.
Selling grandmaster overwatch boost…
And the worst thing is, people are completely ok with it too. Why?! I honestly can never understand this.
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When will you people realise that boosting is popular because there’s a huge demand for it lol.
It’s still trading, that’s a fact, your opinions won’t change that.
There’s no reward that’s mandatory to play the game in getting global like with the weekly 15.
- it’s PvE…
wow is primarily pve based.
Selling pve gear and achievements will result in people who are fundamentally incapable of pulling their own weights in high end content, to have the achievement that proves they can. Which results in them disrupting the play of others when they join high end contents without actually knowing it.
Not to mention reducing the value of high end content completions, the massive influence it does to the economy, and other issues that come with buying and selling boosts.
It doesn’t matter if it’s PVE or PVP. As a matter of fact, in wow, it’s much less troublesome to have a pvp boost. Because those guys need to group up with 1 or 2 others to even be able to participate in pvp ranking games. And if they do so, the moment you see them in arena, you’ll realize they’re boosted and not real players. So you won’t do it again and you won’t lose much ranking either. But in pve, it means a key lost. Or 20 other people’s time wasted in a raid.
Makes sense really, or just make another channel for boost.
I miss the old A*** [Achivement] jokes and the regular goofy trade chat talks.
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I’ve never ever ever ever ever ever ever met a genuinely boosted player in any of the keys up to 20s i’ve done the last 3 seasons lol.
It’s true. People will sell anything these days.
On Kazzak, the first thing I have to do every time I make a character there is turn Trade chat off. It is a constant and never ending stream of illegible spam and no actual trading gets done there since they got rid of server based realms.
Blizzard should implement a LFG tab “Jobs” or “Services”. You can put up any kind if job or service. If it is boosting for gold or mount farming etc…
Imagine the increased token sales.
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Trade chat is called trade chat for a reasson you offer a service and you pay the service provider a sum of gold and or something else no need to change it
The only crime committed here is that your trade chat is on channel 3.