What’s the difference between paying a mage to boost you and blizzard to boost you? If you’re this up in arms about a blizzard character boost, why did the classic community turn a blind eye to mage boosting?
They are both essentially the same thing. With both types of boosting you pay someone to level your character for you, the only difference is how long it takes for you to get the result. So why is using a mage to boost an alt okay but a one time lvl58 boost crossing the line?
This is a serious question. I have seen a lot of hypocrisy over this as people say there’s nothing wrong with paying a mage to boost you through dungeons to 60 but a one time boost is gonna “ruin the game”.
So I am here looking for the reasoning why one is okay but the other isn’t.
I logged on an alt on Herod that I haven’t touched for a while. World / Trade chat was spammed by dungeon boosting. There’s more of that spam than people actually using the chats.
Blizzard only offers boosts with new expansion, and the boost is only to the LOWEST LEVEL of the new expansion. Blizzard has offered that feature for the last several years. It is aimed entirely at new players, not existing players. You pay in US dollars.
Mage boosts are at every level, and are for existing players. You pay in game gold, which only existing players have.
They are essentially completely different in almost every way.
You can claim that anything in the world is “essentially” the same as anything else, if you want to argue. A mouse is essentially a small elephant. So what? Does that even matter?
Both forms of boosting are trash. But the Blizzard-provided boost is probably worse, because it is “blessed” by Blizzard, and it represents a betrayal to Classic enthusiasts who were told by Blizzard that the goal was an “authentic Classic experience.”
There absolutely nothing “authentic” about paid boosting services being added to TBC. It’s 100% about Blizzard deciding that the money to be made by selling boosts outweighs the need to keep one’s word.
Are they? While you are right that one is paid with gold and the other paid with cash, at the end of the day you are still paying someone to do the leveling for you. One is just an instant level up and the other takes time.
You can try and justify or word it however you please, they are the same thing at the end of the day. Just one is a service provided by Blizzard and the other is a service provided by players.
Now don’t get me wrong, I am not a fan of either form of boosting but to see people accept one, along with the problems it has spawned, while vilifying the others is astounding to me and I am trying to wrap my head around things.
The difference between the two is that the boosting meta is entirely in-game which anyone can use for no extra real world money. It is essentially the proof of a strong economy. It is a service a player can choose to offer or to purchase. One puts time and effort into acquiring the gold to purchase the service or you have to put in the time and effort to sell that service.
The other options removes that nuance that people wish to ignore simply because they don’t like the service and naively believe that if the service wasn’t allowed and no one did it. That suddenly the world would would be filled with alts all over the place to run dungeons with just like all the mains during the first phase. It can be abused by both botters who use it to get back to generating gold faster if 15+Boost Cost is more profitable then 15+botting levels up is. Further it can be further abused by anyone who wishes to dump a stupid amount real money to passively generate a lot of in-game money via Tailor/Alchemist CD alts. It further opens to window for additional services that would be a detriment to the game. As if you let a company take a single step without argument they will instead take a mile (or they could instead take the two steps over the line and one step back approach most companies did with lootboxes and over priced cosmetic items).
TL; DR The difference between the two is that one is an in-game social issue that game mechanics allow to happen and the other is a step into the door for future services that will bring the game down in peoples eyes.
I’m OP commenting on another character after getting home from work and at my computer, wanted to post and let you know that your answer was a lot more thoughtful than I would have expected on a post like this. Thank you.
I mean your argument hinges on the idea that since the end result is the same it doesn’t matter and to some extent you’re not wrong, especially for vets who just want to play max level toons.
However for people who are buying boosts from other players they have to pay in-game currency which means they have to have gold and if they’re coming in fresh for TBC guess what they don’t have?
If you don’t let them boost through that theoretically creates at least one new wave of players that will keep the leveling community afloat to allow for better grouping for quests and dungeons.
You let them boost and they can skip leveling, get to 70, farm gold, and then pay for boosts.