A Boost Community "owner" did a reddit AMA

[Mörderhaus-illidan]

Well, Color me not surprised, makes me even feel more better when I get these in game.

Got 9 of them yesterday.

[Squeaksmcgee-area-52]

If this is true and there’s people actually making this kind of money then chances are they are beyond the reach of the IRS.

Is that $20k USD or yuan?

[Gedpriest-queldorei]

nah buddy, wow devs could easily design the game to remove the value of gold and make gear more accessible

instead they’ve quadruple downed because it sells tokens

it is always the wow devs’ design that causes this stuff, and they are fully aware of it, and they are fully choosing to keep it this way

[Nikolo-proudmoore]

@Mokrawr-area-52

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.

Heck yeah. Lifetime bans for everyone! Let’s make this place a ghost town!

[Exziled-malganis]

RMT has been around since vanilla and it will never go away.

Complaining/banning does not work and it will continue. If anything it will get worse now that they removed gold boosting

[Nikolo-proudmoore]

@Exziled-malganis

Complaining/banning does not work and it will continue. If anything it will get worse now that they removed gold boosting

Good call. Instead of banning the people selling boosts…they should ban the buyers.

Can’t have boosters if noone is buying boosts.

[Mörderhaus-illidan]

The “Gold Boosters” was part of the RMT machine.

[Callieamaya-proudmoore]

Why not just ban both the buyers and sellers? It would clean up a lot of the riff raf around here. It wouldn’t be much of a loss. I don’t think as many people buy and sell boosts as a lot of you guys think.

[Exziled-malganis]

You can’t track it is the issue. What mechanism would you possibly put in place to prevent transactions that happen outside the game?

It just isn’t possible or it would already be solved.

[Lekani-executus]

@Kypookins-baelgun

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.

Youtube supports streamers and other content creaters of all kinds by paying them per ad view. Yes, they make loads of money in the process. They have the data.

@Exziled-malganis

You can’t track it is the issue. What mechanism would you possibly put in place to prevent transactions that happen outside the game?

It is very hard to track buyers. It is easy to track sellers. All they have to is set up a periodic sting operation. Contact sellers, let the sellers bring up the cash option. Pay, go through with the carry, and ban everybody involved on all their accounts.

Carriers sell for cash because they know there are no meaningful consequences. If they knew they would lose access to the characters they invested so much work into they would think twice about shady deals.

[Nikolo-proudmoore]

@Exziled-malganis

It just isn’t possible or it would already be solved.

I agree. And my previous comments were intentional hyperbole.

Boosting (outside of PVP), has almost no negative impact on the game and Blizzard has only made things worse for a lot of players by their muddled attempts to address it.

They have already had to clarify and walk back explanations of the rules since the initial release because it is unclear what is allowed and what is not.

[Callieamaya-proudmoore]

@Rita-velen

Wow, it’s such a surprise that someone who trades billions of gold a day does some shady stuff with it!

It kind of makes sense. If you’re unemployed and play WoW all day boosting people, you gotta make money some how.

@Mokrawr-area-52

I’ve seen a lot of people with their heads in the sand refusing to believe it in the past

They are being either willfully ignorant or they are boosters themselves.

[Kazghani-wyrmrest-accord]

It’s bizarre how defensive some of you get at the mere suggestion of ENFORCING THE EXISTING RULES.

Guilty dogs bark loudest I suppose.

[Exziled-malganis]

Ah gotcha, I lacked the context I guess lol

That’s the thing people don’t understand… PvP is the only place that all boosts should be banned. You could make the argument for selling tormented hero title and CE as well and I wouldn’t argue against that.

There’s nothing “prestigious” about AOTC or KSM/15s so let people boost that all they want to help gear alts/friends/etc.

[Kaurmine-area-52]

@Mokrawr-area-52

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.

That’s nice, you still can’t punish people for something you don’t know if they are doing or not.

[Callieamaya-proudmoore]

Their gravy train is leaving the station without them.

[Irrenhaus-the-underbog (Irrenhaus)]

@Warzug-mankrik

$20,000 income a month selling RMT gold in a video game…

If one scours my post hard enough they’ll find posts where I said I’m not convinced RMT its really that big.
I was wrong. I was dead wrong. Also according to that post by far the most boosted place was raids, not pvp or m+.

@Majinbewm-area-52

Report them to the I.R.S. All I can say.

Actually in the thread he says he runs a legitimately placed business and pays his taxes. Some people avoid taxes through crypto though

[Lekani-executus]

@Irrenhaus-the-underbog

If one scours my post hard enough they’ll find posts where I said I’m not convinced RMT its really that big.
I was wrong. I was dead wrong.

Some months back a prominent PvP booster/streamer was banned for RMT carries. He claimed he had been incorrectly flagged after making a withdrawal from his “broker” (at which point I was asking myself why a videogame has brokers, but…).

People were saying they didn’t believe him, that all PvP boosters were doing RMT boosts, lots instead of having irl jobs. One person contacted every booster (all advertising “gold only!”). Every one put them into a discord and gave them a cash price.

[Kaurmine-area-52]

I feel like I’m in one of those hollywood movies where a group of people wants to abandon the law and attack other people because of association

[Kazghani-wyrmrest-accord]

“But the game will both simultaneously die from all the people banned while also DODECAHEDRUPLING the amount of rule breakers if Blizzard starts enforcing the existing rules!”