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Boosting was a small little cancer pre legion. It wasn’t dealt with and left to fester.
Now we have a massive malignant tumor, that people continue to feed with providing/purchasing boosts.
Getting rid of it now is near impossible.
Again - if you give people less of a reason to get a boost, it’s less of an issue
True, if people had no reason to get boosted there would be no boosting.
Though I don’t have a clue how you could do that, without severely damaging the health of the game.
Like banning gold trading, not allowing loot trading, reducing boosted content loot or removing achievement rewards (Like Glad/KM mounts)
I could probably think of more
Part of the problem is Blizzard is trying to increase the player inter-dependency in retail wow, moving away from LFG. But the ship has sailed on that. People are now using trade and LFG as the means to find transactions to get the gear from non-LFG content, rather than going through the hassle of finding people to play with. We should just boost rewards from LFG content at this point
everyone seen already
I don’t care so much that people boost what I care about is the spam in trade chat. Give these boosters their own boost channel and wave the ban hammer on those that use trade for it.
The spam is unreal and just kills the trade chat.
Its not the same because Blizzard doesn’t get a share of the cut if people buy outside Blizzard’s casino 
Yes they do, those characters doing the boosting have to be subbed, and surprisingly enough most are top ranked players with multiple accounts set up specifically for boosting and even pay for level boosting to get their characters at max level easy.
Take for instance the Limit guild ban a few years ago and what they were doing and no doubt are still doing, Pieces another guild who are defiantly still doing the same too, Blizzard can ban the accounts, and have done, but they just make new ones.
Blizzard defiantly indirectly makes money from RMT sales, they don’t like that others do to but they are still making revenue and for gold only sales they make money from WoW token sales, either way its win win for Blizz
Instead of banning it don’t allow it on any chat
That would help abit but in the end but it does not work.
I’ve seen the very same issues in other games over the years , some clamped down realy hard on it, they implemented a system which scanned for key words like WTS, sell, Gold etc but the sellers just found more ingenious ways of writing the adds.
They would add spaces between letter, use numbers instead of letters etc even for web site addresses they found ways to make them easily readable as to what they meant but were impossible for a chat block system to pick them out.
They are just impossible to stop, one thing I did see mentioned in another thread would “help” which is make it so only characters who can do the content advertised allowed to post it, like for a start only level 60’s post for end game content Raid’s, Mtyhic+ etc and to take it even further make their ilvl count too . so you cant have a level 60 with 130 ilvl post for a Mythic raid etc.
But the reality is they wont be stopped and tbh I dont think Blizzard are that bothered they certainly dont have the staff or time available to even try to fix it, Chats sales adds are very very low on the “to do” list for Blizz , if they are even on that list
I mean… you could just hire one or two persons per server to monitor the chat manually. Yeah, it’d cost Blizzard money to do so but honestly… the amount of servers isn’t that huge. Plus it wouldn’t be a job with high qualifications so it’d wouldn’t even be that well paid.
There are ways to stop most of it if you’d really want to. Bottom line is though, that Blizzard does not care, presumably because they also make a profit off of boosting.
What about free boosts?
In order to cover the server 24/7 you would need at least 9 people to monitor each server based on an average working week of 37.5 hours and assuming that they never take any holidays.
If we base this on the UK national working wage payment that would be £156, 370 per server (£17,374 per person). So for the 504 NA and EU servers we are looking at an annual bill of £78,810,732 alone. Then we need to add in the Oceanic and Chinese realms too.
vs
Tokens the people buy to pay for boost (not counting anything else)
Gee… I don’t know, what would Blizzard rather choose 
To be fair even for a company of ActiBlizz proportions paying out almost 79 million just to watch server chat 24/7 isn’t a drop in the ocean.
Admittedly they wouldn’t be paying UK minimum wage but even half of that is close to 40 million a year.
A much easier solution would just be to limit the number of tokens a person can buy.
There is a limit it used to be 10 per month but now …
There are some limits to the WoW Tokens you can buy and hold. If you have multiple WoW accounts in the same Battle.net account, please note the following limits apply to your Battle.net account:
You can buy 20 every 7 days …
Gone from 10 per month to 20 per 7 days it is silly .
Edit sorry its worse then i thought
" A maximum of 10 WoW Tokens can be bought per week, a maximum of 36 every 24 months, and players may have a maximum of 10 tokens in their inventory at one time. If you have a lapsed account and enough gold, you can buy WoW Token directly …"
So a max of 36 back then they came out in 2 years to 20 every 7 days …
how bout ANY coverance
I have been wanting them to the reduce how many can be bought per month for ages - although I suspect that people would get around this with more battle.net accounts.
It’s hard for Blizzard to trace all the gold going around. Would like to see a squish on gold like we had of levels.
all they need to do is give boosters their own channel to spam on … so Trade chat can actually be for trades