I used my free boost (levelling that comes with expac buying) on a character once just to see what it did, I honestly wish I’d levelled it because I didn’t get time to “learn” the character and was now expected to run dungeons on it.
This was Legion I think? I have 4 unused levelling boosts on my account since then as I don’t think it’s an advantage over say levelling through time walking, which takes hours rather than days, and makes you very familiar with how the spec plays in dungeons.
From what I gather, a lot of people paying for boosts aren’t even doing it for that reason. There are a lot of people who are only interested in mythic raiding and don’t want to do M+ to fill their vault. They would rather pay for +18/20 boosts so they can AFK for 20 minutes while other people run the dungeons for them than do the dungeons themselves. They’re not paying for an advantage or to get rating they couldn’t get themselves. They’re just paying to avoid ‘grind’ content that they find boring. It isn’t a choice I’d make myself because I love M+, but I can’t fault them for doing it.
Not entirely sure the relevance, but my enjoyment from WoW often stemmed from working towards a goal, which would apply across all activities, now should they be invalidated, which is often done by the token (and it’s subsequent services) it does beg the question as to why you’ve bothered doing something which could have been facilitated and brought elsewhere.
I’ve yet to see a legitimate argument where bringing RMT into the actual game has been for the benefit of the game itself. I await with baited breathe as to why it is.
Oh no.
Fine, then have the token redeemable for game time only, unable to be sold for gold on the AH and locked into the account of which it is purchased.
Then you’re a more forgiving person than I am, because I can and do fault them for it. 
I have never bought a boost through a dungeon, but at the same time it’s a free market, I’m not going to tell someone else they can’t use their gold however they want, as long as it’s within the TOS of the game.
That said, this reduces what people can spend their gold on, and that’s never a good thing.
It is paying to go ahead of your fellow player is it not? To artifically skip the grind is paying to have an advantage over the player that doesn’t.
And if the issue is down to the fact that some aspects of the ‘grind’ are boring, then the scorn goes to the developers for not making an aspect of the game actually fun.
Yes, mine does as well.
I work towards goals for myself, not just so I can show off the achievement to others. If I’ve achieved something through my own efforts, it doesn’t matter to me that I COULD have simply paid for it because I know I didn’t. But I guess if you just want it for bragging rights, knowing that other people can buy it must rankle.
Why would I feel the need to ‘forgive’ people for spending money on the continuing development of a game I love?
Which is a good change.
It was very dumb that people could buy D4 with wow gold
Then surely that’s a crux of a poor game?
Token inherently leads to the prominence of Boosting, now it’ll exist regardless as any game has a functioning economy for services, but we are in the modern era, time is money. I am actually of the inherent belief that the Token is a crux for Blizzard because they can skip on making the game fun overall because generally if people hit an obstacle they’ll just buy their way past it. Take away the crutch and they’ll fundamentally have to develop a better product.
But gametime seems unaffected, whether it’s a bug or not? In that sense for those who just want gametime there is no reason for stress I think…? And I understand, I’m happy for people like you in your situation that there is at least a way to still play 
Neh. Boosts existed before the tokens and it would still exist if the token were to be removed.
Inherent lazyness is what leads to the prominence of boosting.
Why?
People who’ve farmed the roughly 1.2 million required to have the balance to buy the D4 base game have paid far more than the cost that base game in sub fees to grind out the gold.
It will become a problem for most of us though to buy an expansion as I doubt our government suddenly realises they are killing the country with filling their own pockets instead of getting us back up to the glory economy we once had 
This sucks I know alot of eastern European players and Turkish players who relied buying tokens for bnet balance to buy WoW expansions and other Blizzard Ips.
Hearthstone packs and OW2 Battle passes.
I got a feeling those lovely people won’t be sticking around for much longer sad to say =[
They existed, but, it was either bought through illegal means (i.e. RMT, bannable) or it was earned by actually playing the game, Boosting always existed as a service economy within WoW and other MMOs.
Ah, I didn’t think of that. Now that would suck for you! I hope for your sake it’s just a bug. I can’t really see why they’d go back on it now intentionally, seems very random. And my guess is it would have been announced beforehand if that were the case.
And I hope your government gets its act back together. Wild how some forget about serving their people instead of stuffing their own pockets.
I will miss my friends from those countries too, I always new how they felt because in my country it is the same, I am talking about the far end of africa, different location, similar issues 
New company (Microsoft) in charge of the finances, I suppose.
Still, you’d think they’d at least announce such a thing?
And why would it be EU only?
It feels like it’s a bug, basically.