This seems very silly. Gallywix likely does thousands of carry runs a day, and most of them are above board, but Blizzard somehow feels the need to punish their entire community?
That’d be like banning the entirety of Tarren Mill for what Method has been doing; blanket punishments for all instead of targeting just the cheaters.
Poor decision, Blizzard, you’re attacking a community instead of cheaters. Pretty pathetic, imo.
So the reason why they charge more is because A) they tend to guarantee times and loot funnels that other teams don’t and B) both the community and the person who is posting in trade about the run get a cut. So the group that carries you gets roughly equivalent of a token in payment to split 5 ways, but the person posting in trade gets a cut as does the community as a whole.
That being said, this will actually drive prices down on most things, but a 15 will not go lower than a token price odds are. Plenty of cross realm groups strictly sell 15s for the token price because that’s how they pay for their game time lol
I’d like to see the tools developed to provide these types of communities with being spam free, and RMT free, maybe through some extra development of the Battle.net API and in-game tokens for tracking and accountability. Maybe provide a default gold transaction on tokens that are at a reduced rate from their current auction house value (for those who want to just right click a token and get gold, and not have to deal with trying to sell one). These types of communities will always crop up, and while I don’t enjoy their existence, I understand why they happen, and why a small portion fall to temptation. I think it needs a designed approach to fix its pain points.
The issue is RMT and chat spam. The benefits are a lot of guilds driven to participate to help fund their next raid tiers, or buy big ticket items like brutosaurs (or game time). I don’t know what the solution is, but surely something extra can be done so that these types of transactions don’t happen on Discord or player spreadsheets or in-game chat tools meant for LFG. Gally was moving a lot of gold; it’s surprising something like this didn’t happen sooner.
Those help wanted ads I’ve been seeing make these organizations sound sketchy and open to manipulation by unscrupulous participants.
Changes to raiding, dungeons, and eventually the introduction of horrific visions clearly increased the demand for paid carries. Intentional? It certainly has been lucrative for Blizzard, but I think the potential for real money making has skyrocketed these activities out of control.
The latter. Find customers some other way.
I think it’s likely that you could accept gold payments from them safely for carries already completed. Whether they’ve got the gold to pay you is another matter; there may have been a ponzi aspect where they sold gold for real money on the expectation of being able to pay out of future revenues.
Huh. Well I’ll be.
Fantastic news. Ban them all, every last one of them.
It’s one thing to put up a couple of “hey if you have some gold here, this server, I’m also on this server, our guild can carry you in (insert endeavor here)”.
But creating dozens, even hundreds, of level 20 scab toons on nearly every server, and endlessly spamming garbage on and on and on and on, there needs to be something done about that.
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/bad-boy
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/badboy_ccleaner
Add “Gallywix” to the filter and you’ll never see that in chat again 
Doing anything to make boosting better means endorsing basicly boosts. Blizz has made clear that boosting is in a grey zone. If they would do anything it’s going to be agaisn’t boosting imo.
Tokens are already the compromise, people should deal with tokens if they want to buy gold with real money.
I agree, but I think if the tools are available for people to create one with more accountability then it’s a step in a direction of not having to police player communities that are hard to audit (discord servers, large communities of individuals with unknown accounts). Again I don’t know what the answer is.
You do realise that this post literally has nothing to do with boosting services being “toxic” or doing anything about it? Boosting is welcome to use trade chat for its intended purpose.
This post has to do with RMTs which is not allowed. Gold boosting very much is.
ban them all. good riddance
Yeah I got threatened once. I seen some website who sells gold for money. RMT. Ban them forever it serves them right.
Thank you. Now please make carry spam in trade chat a bannable offence.
You realize every single one of those boosts get manager cuts and that’s obviously who got caught RMTing right?
The blue post only applies to Gallywix.
That said, the matchmaking services and the money management services that Gallywix provided involve a lot of work. I’m skeptical that anyone will be willing to run a similar organization without getting real money for their work.
If this happens with another community, expect a wider action. Either boosting communities will be banned, or boosting will be banned entirely.
They are trading carries for gold, it’s not gonna happen
What a great idea, i mean just look how well banning advertising has worked in the group finder! Oh wait it didn’t do anything except extinguish legit carries and make all the adverts into RMT adverts.
Wait. Is the group doing this called Gallywix or are they referring to the server of Gallywix?
The way its written makes it sound like the corporation/group is known as Gallywix.
Sounds like it’s working fine then? There’s always going to be rulebreakers, and people selling carries for real money are already breaking the rules, so of course they’ll continue.
But it’s much better without the spamming from the ‘legit’ carry groups. It’s also satisfying reporting all of them and knowing that there’s a possibility, however slim, that it’ll lead to that spammer getting a ban.