Good Afternoon,
I have noticed for a little while now that every time I look at my Trade channel (#2) all i can ever see is people spamming their boosts for gold. Now i know that selling boosts for gold is tolerated, however i do feel like the trade chat should not only be for selling boosts. Might as well call it the boost channel then.
Would there not be a way to stop this ??
Let me know if you share my opinion
Have a nice day
Totally agree , to be fair boost for gold in me opinion should be banable . It undermine core game mechanics aka achievement . And game distribution should be banable offence . Second is all this spam bots. If community support they representative as spam bot , whole community should get punished . And last we all know they are 2 types of bosting community one who already got catch RMT and second who still don’t .
They can’t make it a bannable offense as no rules are being broken.
Taking other players into your group and running a raid/dungeon isn’t against the rules.
And sending another player gold isn’t against the rules.
They can’t make both of those together being against tos. That would be a nightmare to try and manage and find out who actually broke rules or whatever.
For Odin sake just make the separate boost channel it’s not that hard and keep the trade channel for selling mats and boe items and mounts aswel as for rogues to open lockboxes.
This is a hard thing for people to grasp apparently that boost spam is annoying it floods the server like ddos attack almost.
Well they can, it’s their own game and Blizzard do whatever they want with the rules. Did you not see what happened with multibox?
Boosting for Gold helps Blizzard sell more Wow-tokens, therefore they make more money. It’s going nowhere.
It is certainly a tainted area of a great game, but it’s part of the game now.
But it shouldn’t be like that they can always change that but they won’t and that’s where we have a problem.
Just as the china farmers selling gold in the past or the multiboxing drama rage lately I fail to see the problem with boosting services. It doesn’t influence my or my way of playing. I just ignore it, just like I ignore ads on the webs and on tv.
Well yes i can always /leave trade but that’s not the point the point is i shouldn’t be forced to leave trade cause of them.
The removal of Gold Farmers and the culling of Multiboxing has certain been a huge improvement for everyone who plays the game. If it’s not affecting you directly, then has affected you indirectly in ways that you are unaware.
However, the boosting services aren’t really affecting the overall play base. Sure we see the spam in Chat and LFG tool. But how often do you meet a boosted played in group content. I pug mostly nowadays and maybe once a month do I meet someone well geared with no game knowledge.
As much as I detest the boosting community and how it is leaving a plague on the game of wow. It really doesn’t do much harm.
I just wish Blizzard would funnel some of that extra cash from selling the Wowtokens into the game.
Multibox is easy to detect since they used software to do that. Though it not totally banned, you can still do it but not using the software.
How are they going find and ban people who gets taken through a raid, grouping up isn’t against the rules and I doubt they want the hassle of trying to figure out if a person was boosted through a raid or was just in a friends group or whatever.
It’s the same as the paying with gold part, lots of people trade gold for stuff each day, they aren’t going to look through all that trying to find people accepting boosts or paying for them.
But that won’t help though… if we look at the previous experience we have. What makes you think that the boosters will stay in said booster-channel? Bans won’t keep them controlled.
They are not allowed to post ads in group-finder. Yet there are ads posted daily, and there are many of them. You can report them but all it does is hiding them from you. Obviously this behaviour will not change if they are given a separate channel . They’ll just keep making lvl 1 alts and post on those.
Simple rules , like lvl 40+ for global chat , exclusive from new comer . Vindictive GM who perma ban persistent offenders and trace track gold to main account . Blizz can do it and should do it.
They break the rules when they post their crap by the dozens in the que’s. Nothing gets done.
Remove the free to play accounts or monitor the IP. If they want to spoof the IP then start bannig the main accounts till they run out of funds. I have no pity on them. None.
Easier option is to give them a place to spam their crap so it does not impact other players. And, yes, spamming the ques with dozens of WTS ads inpacts others as they have to mentally filter out the ones that mane nothing and are just pure ads.
Ban them all
burn them all
oups sorry
There are two addons (one of them has been around for over a decade) that stop you having to worry about trade chat spam:
Badboy: You won’t see any chat from people who use certain words e.g. boost. You can add words to it. There are also additional badboy add ons which removes chat from people under a certain level, guilds etc.
Acamar: I think this is a more new. It uses machine learning to block out people who spam trade with similar messages. So if someone is spamming boosting, it stops them showing in trade chat and will also learn to block similar messages.
I use both, and I RARELY see any boost adverts in trade chat.
Agreed. Some good suggestions here: Level restrictions for trade chat, please Blizzard
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