I renew my subscription yesterday and came back to play anniversary classic only to see that the only people that play the game is mage boosters.
Thanks Blizzard I just lost 13 euros for nothing.
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Itās not that only mage boosters play the game, itās that large portion of players want to have a max level alt but canāt stand the tediousness of classic levelling. Mage boosters exist because there is a large demand for them.
I just donāt have alts for the same reason. But if I was ethically okay with buying some gold, Iād be happy to boost an alt or 2 to 60 and raid with them. Leveling in WoW Classic is 
Now a lot of people with the same āethicalā opinion as you will join the topic, they want to start banning everyone who buys gold, but not gold sellers and bots (explaining that by eliminating the cause - gold buyers, sellers will also be eliminated).
In other words, the opinion that part of the game content (in your case, pumping from 1 to 60, which many find interesting and exciting and play exclusively for this pumping) , is an ethical opinion, and the fact that someone somewhere buys/sells gold, which does not even affect your gameplay, is unethical. I can say for sure - your thinking is
Haha, it was expected after Dinar announcement. Now they are even spamming irrelevant channels. Blizzard has brought it up to itself.
I read your post 3 times and still can not understand what you are trying to say. Please try to express your thouggts more precisely. Try using google translate maybe.
I think you are perhaps conflating my personal dislike for levelling with a rules as stated by Blizzard?
Let me try to explain it to you like a child.
I donāt like levelling, so I donāt do it. Even though it is perfectly okay for others to level as many alts as they like.
I may want to purchase some gold, but I CANNOT because it is currently against ToS.
Itās not a hard concept to grasp. It is not that people just āwantā to start banning gold buyers. People want Blizzard to enforce their own rules that already exist.
the opinion that you need to ban the buyer of gold is equivalent to the opinion that you need to ban buyers of a Blizzard subscription, and play on free servers. Why pay when you can get the same thing for free only with a better service, playing on a pirate server, where Game Masters monitor the absence of bots and RMT activity.
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Iād personally go further with anyone who buys gold. Iād impose a permanent account-wide Battlenet ban, executed at IP level to prevent them from ever opening a second account, and ensure that this permanent ban was extended to ALL Blizzard titles, not just WoW.
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I mean yeah alot of people want their alts to get to 60 fast as possible since we are 3-4 months in and we getting closer to naxx/tbc.
And atleast some of the āmage boostersā wants gold to be able to raid for their main.
Its not only mages. Warriors can boost dungeons such as stockade or sm (a bit slower).
I do myself have an alt mage at 60 doing sunken temple soloing to keep up paying for raiding on my warrior.
I do help guldies for free to gain some exp in st if they ask for it. And i do sometimes get messages from ppl if its ok to join my group for some exp.
I never advertise it tho. But i can see why ppl do it.
It is so funny. I am not even going to humiliate myself defending RMT gold sellers, ofc but funnier thing is people who are thinking the same way you do.
I mean, you are aware that Blizzard itself sells gold, yeah?
Also:
It is currently not possible to buy WoW Tokens for real money in Brazil, Argentina, Iran, and Turkey.
This is because the listed countries in the above quote are having economic troubles, and Blizzard has a localized pricing policy, so the prices are a bit lower than their USD or EUR equivalents. But for the same reason, WoW token purchases are forbidden.
As you can guess, there is no way for those people to buy WoW tokens. So, they are going for the 3rd party solutions. Thatās kind of Blizzard being a bit coquehead, cuz they could still sell WoW token directly in EUR while keeping localized prices as they are for the other services.
They just donāt care, you donāt understand that part. There is no way that Blizzard can fight with the āin-game gold onlyā boosters or RMT boosters. Even those boosters with gold are selling their gold on various websites. Do you think they are keeping their in-game wealth within the game? 
Blizzard has always acted like they are fighting with some ban waves here and there, but thatās the best they can do. They canāt ever stop botting, boosting. They were there during vanilla, then tbc, then WotLK, and even today, they will be here in the future too because it is very profitable. It is probably beyond your imagination how much money they make per monthā¦ Ban them and in 10 sec. another army will fill the void of the banned ones, like a finger snap.
Damned ppl, you really have to grow up ā¦
Check whoĀ“s is still playing this game and go check any youtube about this game.
You more or less have 2 cathegories of players - new to this game who hardly knows how to play and min-max players who use all, speed as hell and has no interest of āexploringā the game. That was the old-time wow when socialation and exploring was a big part of the casual wow. But we old players has done that over and over again. The game is 20 years old ā¦
So, if you can handle your class and do contents by your self to farm or bring in others who get xp:s, what is so terrible wrong with that?
Is that really different from any other game or how real world works?
Or what is most wise / smart, spend 4-8 hours farming just to keep up with the minimum requirements of consumes for one raid, or go to work and use 15 min of that job-time to get your golds ?
This gold-subject in wow classic is so toxic, allmost like it was a diskussion about religion. Then in couple of expansions blizzard gave all wow-tokens so they could earn all money themself, but that was suddenly okej ???
Look at the ānewā classic changes. I promise we get wow-tokens here too with the release of Tbc ā¦
If youāre selling your services or items you collect for real money then not only are you breaching the gameās terms and conditions and deserve an account ban, youāre actively contributing to the toxification of the game, youāre part of the problem and making everything worse for future players.
WoW classic is not just divided equally between try hard meta min/max, parsing speedrunning sweatlords and clueless noobs - thereās also a significant number of people who play the game because itās fun, because they want to re-experience the original game as it used to be, and because they just like pottering around in WoW.
Blocking all possibility of progress behind a real money paywall gatekept by greedy, predatory people is not what they signed up for. āSorry pal, if you want to raid, give us your credit card to swipe. Whatās that? Youāre poor! Too bad, no loot for you!ā is as toxic as hell.
And the only other games that follow the above example are predatory mobile games designed to steal your cash.
And no, TBC wonāt come with WoW tokens.
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If you donāt like spending time farming materials whether alone or in groups and prefer to just purchase gold to buy these materials then itās pretty simpleā¦ you donāt like WoW and you donāt like MMORPGs.
Iām not saying that in any sort of mean way, itās just a fact.
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You partially replied to your own questions.
Blizzard knows how to sell gold to players. Mechanisms are there, they could turn it on any time. And they turned it on for China, for example.
The fact that it still wasnāt turned on for western servers means that this game is not designed around buying gold. Gold is part of the game and you are supposed to earn it one way or another.
And also your comment highlights the issue with boosting services. While thereās nothing wrong with it per se, just like thereās nothing wrong with GDKP, thereās still something wrong: those provoke RMT. So I wouldnāt cry about boosting nerfed one day.
It IS actually affecting pplās gameplay. Gold grinding bots are so bold now, they are being put in questing areas. The dungeon boosting IS affecting regular group as those ppl canāt even fill up their groups anymore so it IS actually gamebreaking.
Itās even affecting my guild in Anniversary because 1 person bought 4000 to 6000 gold, weāre not sure of the amount, got himself boosted to 60 and right after he got to 60 i saw him in an MC making me think he bought himself into that raid.
No where has he made himself available to guildruns nor did he anywhere make a guildgroup for anything. Itās even going further, guildies who would normally oppose buying gold have been contemplating buying gold because he told them itās so awfully cheap!!
This thread is about wow Anniversary (see OP). I donāt know where you can buy/sell wow tokens in Anniversary but i canāt find it.
And what is your source for that? Donāt link some random streamer - give me an official link stating Blizzard is selling gold.
Heās probably talking about WoW Tokens in retail - or at least that was my assumption.
If I had my way any player who grouped with a player ten levels higher or more would gain zero XP from mobs or quests. That would soon put a stop to the boosting culture.
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I thought that as well, but thatās not selling gold. That is selling Tokens - the gold is already in the game.
I was just curious if he knew something or was just letting hot air out. It appears it was the latter.
Ah, ok, thatās my bad then, sorry. I assumed it was retail without checking
I shouldnāt be looking at Anniversary server forums, thatās weird how I ended up here
Yes, I was. I donāt know why it is brought to me when I check whatās being talked about. I am not following any anniversary category, which is my bad.
Well, yeah, apparently I am in a place that I shouldnāt be. Sorry about the confusion. I am not gonna make it a longer discussion as it is not the correct place to discuss this, but Token was a preventive attempt to stop gold buying and also making money out of it by themselves from Blizzard. It is gold selling, as people buy tokens and convert them to gold.
But yeah, I leave it here. Probably there is no token sales on anniversary servers so it is not a discussion for anniversary servers 
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āyetā and even tokens didnāt stop bots and RMT because itās cheaper