A plea to Blizzard and the player base

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Hello,

I am a level 60 mage and with that mage, I raid, do dungeons, and also sell leveling carries. It is how I enjoy the game. I use the gold I make to fund raiding not only on this character, but also on my rogue and warrior.

As I don’t enjoy herbing / mining / cooking / fishing, the gold I make is exchanged with other players that do enjoy these things so that I can have consumables for 3 different characters. I am not a bot, I am not a gold seller, I am not an RMT trader. But I am affected by this change.

Even if people dislike how I personally spend my time enjoying the game, you have to admit that I am doing so completely within the established rules.

The issue here, is I do not believe the bots will be significantly impacted. I have personally seen botters on my server with numerous mages all boosting at the same time, indicating that the same person is running various accounts with various mages. The simplest work around for them in my mind is to run a simple 3 server rotation.

Account 1 has 3 mages on 3 servers, account 2 has 3 other mages on the same servers, and account 3 has 3 more mages again on the same servers. When you hit the 30 cap, you just rotate which server each account is on, still running 90 instances a day on 3 different servers. That’s not even a clever solution to this hinderance for them.

This change impacts actual players who are playing the game 100% legally and in good faith, but will not affect those actually breaking the game. Please reconsider.

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You are correct here. It will do nothing to stop botters, at all.

And you shouldn’t have to justify the way you wanna play. You provide a service, and use that gold to fund your raiding. That’s great!

I’ve seen a few posts here about people hating boosting services and blah blah blah. Well guess what, this isn’t going to stop those services. And you can dislike the way a player enjoys the game, so don’t play that way. Play your way. Don’t tell them they can’t get or do boosts though because it doesn’t fit YOUR idea of how the game should be played.

Anyway, all of that aside. The cap is a stupid non-fix to botting. Reverse it.

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I want to see how the change panes out first. If it truly does more harm than good, fine revert it.

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As someone who personally dislikes the whole boosting-meta around leveling, I fully and unequivocally support you. This is a bad change.

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Finally a level-headed response from someone who hates boosting lol

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No, they want you to buy three more accounts to make more mages on and use those to sell boosts. THINK OF THEIR PROFITS!

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I feel the impact of this change too. On the weekend I farm pummelers while also getting DMT buffs, helping a guildie farm SGC, and also raid on the same day. Not going to be able to do that anymore, just so Blizzard can pretend to be fighting botters. Repeal this change, Blizzard.

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I boost all the time cause its fun and challenging to do one pulls. Then raid at night or do dungeons with friends. This is a stupid change and it hurts the average player way more than any chinese bot that has 100’s of accounts over all the realms.

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You make a sounds argument, but do you have statistics on your gameplay/hours/instances or is this purely anecdotal?

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The average player doesn’t even play 6 hours every day let alone do the max number of instances in that time.

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The argument he presents about rotating bots as a solution for them is logic. No statistics are required here,

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I personally stream my boosts, and have boosted well over 11 hours in a single day. I average 12 minute pulls, coming to 5 an hour.

55 - 60 instances in a single day isn’t unheard of for me.

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Yes, you dont do this. So this isnt a problem right? Because it doesnt affect you. Things that dont directly affect you are clearly NOT problems.

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I’m already leveling a second mage on my 2nd account to bypass the limit. All this change will do is encourage behavior like this

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Yes but you see all of what you said isn’t accounting for the profits they make off this change. The concerns of the poors are of no consequence to them.

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Cool. I obviously disagree with you, but your stats don’t lie and I think they help your case.

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but now I gotta pay for 2 accounts… which I guess is brilliant on Blizzards part, but seriously makes me angry

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Yeah unfortunately that’s the farming meta now

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yes lets wait for people to quit the game… good idea…

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Blizzard: Stonks