Uh no once token was implemented rmt was cracked down on hard.
Spammers are going to exist if you like it or not. As such boosts will continue to exist as well. The only thing you do by banning these things are damage legit players trying to make gold to pay for repairs and food flasks pots and such like the brutosaur.
You really showed me tho. Really stuck it to me man. Now customers who want boosts can’t find me. But they sure can find the RMTers spam. Getting rid of me won’t stop the source of all of this: people want boosts. They can’t buy legit boosts? They will just buy illicit boosts.
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Imagine my shock.
Called this as soon as Gallywix started pretending they were the moral police in their response to the drama around Method a month ago.
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So I’m trying to understand. Since Gallywix has been found guilty of rmt, does that mean you agree with their ban since you don’t like rmters just trying to understand.
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Imagine wanting to play a video game, but you don’t actually want to play it. You want to instead pay to play.
inb4 judgemental replies: No, it is not my right to dictate what people buy, but are you removing a big purpose playing a video game by asking people to do it for you?
And a PvE coaching for 1 hour? Cmon man. There is a thing called Youtube or Icyveins, lol.
Yes very much so. Gallywix doing RMT comes as not a surprise given how the operations were run and as great shame to those of us who only boost for gold.
Oh ok I was in a place you disagreed with them getting banned. What I would hope for is a website like wowprogress or raider io that let people advertise their own group sale. Removing the need for a community much, like you know people selling their own house instead of going with a real estate agent. I think any community is doomed moreover if it becomes too big. And Blizzard shouldn’t endorse boosting by making systems for it ingame, I feel boosting is already too acessible/spammed ingame, I wouldn’t mind if they were more harsh on LFG. Maybe even ban advertising in trade. But they need to have some balls I feel to do that.
Imo boosting needs to stay 100% in game to stay on the up and up. Once external websites and discords get involved you have a mainline route in for RMT.
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I don’t know, I feel people looking for rmt will always find them. But removing advertising would reduce the amount of carries and the amount of rmt by the same amount. (that’s kinda proven that advertising does a lot of work to get people in)
I don’t know, something about the group naming themselves after Warcraft’s most notorious swindle, embezzler, and cheat makes me feel like a lot of folks were already incredibly wary about the services they were offering. It’s like, seeing Gallywix get caught for Gallywixing comes off as weird more than anything, but at the same time it feels like it’s very on-brand in a way?
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People looking for boosts aren’t looking for RMT. But RMT is all they will find in the current climate.
But if thy could remove RMT advertising the question becomes why haven’t they done it yet?
Probably no real will to act upon it, like LFG has kept being polluted because they’re too easy on it. People got offended last week for getting a 1-2 days ban for it. If they paid someone to ban those people 1 or 2 day a week I’m sure the numbers would go down a lot. Or if they would find a way to automate the system more.
Don’t really agree there’s tons of people ready to boost on the market for gold. People that pay with real money want to pay with real money. We even have the wowtoken in the game. People are just stubborn if they do rmt and just want to do rmts when the wowtoken exist.
Sure but how do we find clients? We advertise the only ways that are left for us by going to trade chat and risking coppin a silence for our efforts. Or we join a community that advertises for us and risk copping a ban from blizzard because the corrupt leadership was RMTing.
In the end as boots on the ground we get screwed, RMTers gonna RMT, and you get a degraded spammed up experience.
As a legit user you can reign me in, you can put restrictions on me and stop me from doing things like spamming unreasonably. RMTers however are already operating outside the legal space so they don’t care.
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Gallywix worked their magic to get groups like AGB banned becuase they were competition. All those carriers lost their gold. Now Gally carriers reap the same reward.
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Yea I guess you need to risk the silence. Probably should be fighting for a better solution to this. But it’s just a super grey area sadly atm. Personnaly I would go harsher on carries because even if rmters are gonna keep rmt, reducing it with systems like the wowtoken works. So it’s just about finding the right system. I feel popular websites like raider io could do that and keep the game clean at the same time. I don’t feel advertising for boosting is something you want a new players to see spammed. Or that it should be as easy as right now to get or do. Maybe an addons or a channel only for carries that isn’t baseline (that you have to look for) could be a thing.
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No its not… If you are advertising for them or buying services from them you get banned. Its very clear.
Usually when the people at the top screw up, the people down below get screwed. Sorry for your loss.
See thats where we get into weird debates about the current overall health of the game.
There are plenty of people who have minimal playtime and play an undesirable class or spec. Sometimes people pay for these services just so they don’t spend their online time frantically clicking through the group finder.
This is one of the many ways that the duty finder has negatively impacted the overall health of this game. We have ended up in a climate where the pool of available players has become wide that the meta has become strictly enforced for every almost single group–this is especially egregious in PVP and M+ and early stage Mythic raiding, not quite so much heroic and late-stage mythic raiding.
As far as the Meta, these are primarily created by borrowed power. Borrowed power has largely been used as a band-aid in this game for the longest time. The borrowed power aspect does a very good job in making trash specs viable but, at the same time, that borrowed power becomes extremely excessive for the already-viable classes.
This makes it even easier for people to clear 5 man high key m+ with 4 people and also makes it easy for people to do, for example, Heroic Nzoth with a 15 person group, 5 of which are purchasing the kill.
Realistically, the only way to get around the plague of paid boosts that have been happening more and more lately would be to revert to the old ways of the game by:
1: Reducing the available player pool so people have a reason to bring undesirable or un-meta classes and specializations
2: Actually balance classes in a way that a whole expansion-feature system doesn’t have to serve as a band-aid for the un-meta specs and have a side-effect of having particularly egregious boosts to other specs.
Sorry for going kinda off subject, but this is how we got to the extreme rise of the boosting economy.
I understand your whole point, but it’s not only that. And it’s kinda irealist to want them to reduce the player pool, you don’t want to go back to waiting 30 min for a player to queue for your group. And class are actually mostly balanced, but any small difference will be enough for people to discriminate. And since you don’t want also to just homogenize classes, meta will always happen that’s a fight you can’t win.
So considering this, I believe that boosting problem is it has become too easy to advertise with people specialized in it and too easy to do. If it was easier to find a guild or to look for groups, or to just buy crafted gear to catch up it would be better. I would be totally fine if they sold heroic raid equivalent crafted gear or something close to.
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That will take care of a lot of carry spam