So someone who supposedly runs a boost community did a reddit AMA earlier today, and was verified by the mods there to be legit(as best they can anyway?). Here is a link:
They admit to dealing in a lot of RMT, claiming it’s common practice and that guilds/boosters take part in the RMT.
Time for Blizzard to bring the hammer down on the other half of the problem… the Guilds who sell services for real money using these brokers.
Until they face real consequences guys like the one who posted will keep doing what they do.
They also said we can likely expect advertisers to be back at it soon.
*take all this with a grain of salt, I have no idea how thoroughly the mods over there vetted this guy.
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Wow, it’s such a surprise that someone who trades billions of gold a day does some shady stuff with it! I can’t believe that they would do this, they had such a positive influence on the game. And it only took us years to figure this out, good job guys!!
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I’ve seen a lot of people with their heads in the sand refusing to believe it in the past 
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$20,000 income a month selling RMT gold in a video game… 
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Assuming it is real, very unsurprising anyway.
This bit is why I still think Blizzard should have just monitored and constrained Huokan but let it still operate. Something is always going to come back as a vacuum of power will be quickly grabbed at. Now the whole boosting community thing is just going to go underground anyway.
If Blizzard can remove it all while also fixing the problems it has created over the years more power to them, but unlikely.
Huokan was using their banker bot array to launder the money, they weren’t paying gold out to the carriers, they were paying cash to the carriers. The carriers sent gold to the banker bots and the banker bots sent gold back out to people who were buying gold for cash rather than as carry payouts. That is the main reason why it got cleaned up, I think. Blizz needs the only people involved in the carry can advertise thing to limit the size of operations for investigative purposes.
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I feel like there are only two ways of dealing with this and that is either allow it (basically what they were doing) or go nuclear, put the manpower, money, and time in to clean this up and start Perma banning participants to clean this garbage up. Being wish washy on it does not really solve a whole lot.
People may say “people will just keep buying anyways” ya some will take the risk, but alot of the buyers will not be buying anymore with that risk. When posters here say this will always be a problem if there is demand, well one way to cut demand is going nuclear on those you catch on both ends participating in RMT.
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Report them to the I.R.S. All I can say.
wiggles toes
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It’s kind of unreal that anybody actually believed that carry providers were mostly perfect unsullied angels that only ever dealt in gold. There’s simply too much money to be made for that to be true.
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I know a few people who quit their jobs to boost in WoW all day because the rmt was more profitable.
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Those people need to be called out and culled. This is a video game for entertainment, not a way of life.
Not public shaming, but brought to attention.
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For living off of doing something they love?
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Making a business from a video game? Yeah. I think so. Why strip the fun for profit?
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They have fun doing it I’d assume.
ban streamers too while they’re at it. no one makes a profit to play a video game!
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i dont think that thread went the way he wanted it too.
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Fully agree, half measures won’t solve boosting or offer well enforced alternatives.
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I mean the dude answered in the AMA.
These boosts aren’t done by the community grabbing 4 players who happen to be online and going “hey, wanna do some RMT”. The actual RMT’ing groups are all established guilds and M+/PvPers with a dedicated team using the community as a cover.
OP basically said that it’s not gunna stop him, the money involved is too good.
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No, it would be the money.
How would it be fun “boosting” some random player you don’t know? It would be boring as heck and seem like “work.”
Not the same thing. The streamer is not getting the public to pay them, rather they are paid by the silly companies like Youtube/Twitch that think paying the streamer from advertising revenue somehow makes people buy things (or rather the companies paying Twitch/Youtube for the advertising do); I don’t believe it does and eventually that is going to go away.
Kind of hard to believe, isn’t it.