What they ban/don’t ban for is based on what the community reports.
They state as much in the updated cross-game rules/Universal Code of Conduct.
What is or isn’t allowed as far as gameplay is based entirely on what the community is reporting.
If you’re the only person reporting boosters they won’t get banned.
Just like if you’re the only person reporting people with names like “Woolyjuggs” they won’t get actioned.
The entire reporting system is based around volume of reports unless it’s something egregious like botting.
Blizzard added boosts and the token because people just couldn’t stop cheating and they figured it’d be better for them to get the money instead of literal mafias running the gold selling/power leveling companies.
I don’t think boosts nor the token should be in the game but here we area.
I think the only reason they haven’t added boosts or the token to classic is because they’re worried that the Classic Only crowd will quit.
Again with reading comprehension. I never disagreed with boosting. Merely the statement that boosting doesn’t impact anyone.
You are getting upset over something that doesn’t exist?
Chad was sitting on another thread crying for gdkps to come back because he was sick of having to do them on cata so he could pay for his 4 accounts. I was saying he has bigger problems.
Blizzard should have been nerfed. This spell has super cc and good damage, and aoe without any limitation. The spell has no equivalent in game. Some pathetic mages use Blizzard even on one mob, lol. Either Blizzard’s damage be nerfed hard or limit the number of affected mobs.
Blizzard is what creates gold inflation as it injects either raw gold or vendable items into economy. Bots farming black lotus don’t generate gold as they merely transfer gold from one to another.
Nerfing Blizzard can solve inflation and curb boosting.
Okay so but basically every single farm except mara still works in your scenario so its not really gonna change much. Mara would prob still be possible just slower if they nerfed it anyways
It’s not our fault you haven’t played any other games for 20 years that doesn’t mean you get to bypass the leveling process because you find it ‘boring’.
Boosting impacts anyone on your faction who’s just trying to run a dungeon but they can’t find groups because everybody is boosting.
Boosting impacts the other faction because now you’re level 60 and didn’t earn it but you can go gank level 30s without any repercussions.
This is why Blizzard didn’t allow PVE → PVP Transfers in Vanilla.
They didn’t want people leveling to 60 and then transferring to PVP servers to roflstomp people without earning it(Leveling on a PVP server).
You shouldn’t care, the people buying boosts would most likely quit if it was removed, so nothing would change in your leveling experience.
Also if they do go level in the open world you can bet they’ll have restedxp open with an arrow pointing to the most efficient leveling path, they would never even acknowledge you in the open much less do a dungeon, so if you want to have an alive world or something might as well just have some bots running around, same thing
It’s a free economy, but I also don’t understand why people choose a version of WoW like this if they don’t enjoy the things that make Classic what it is. The raiding isn’t even halfway decent until TBC, and doesn’t stand out until WoTLK. Only good argument might be max rank PvP I suppose, but I mean the original Classic PvP system is also bonkers awful. I believe they toned it down for anniversary now though so maybe it’s better.
Choosing to play a version of WoW where the journey was extremely important and a big part of experience, and then avoiding that part of the game, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
Look, it’s not a mystery what’s going on here. These are Retail players who couldn’t hack it in that version of the game where you need some skill and ability to succeed. So they come to Classic where they know the end-game doesn’t require that kind of skill. And then they pay to avoid the only part of the game that requires dedication and commitment. “Leveling isn’t difficult!!! It’s just tedious!!” is their standard reply. Yes, welcome to how mmos were designed 20 years ago. It was primarily about time commitment. But you’re the one opting to play on a Classic server.
So now they cheese their way to max level by paying, and then accumulate every buff and consumable for endgame content that wasn’t balanced around that kind of min/maxing (and even without which is braindead easy…but not easy enough!!), so that they can burn through it, and /flex at how amazing they are at the game.
The journey was over when we hit 60 on one or two toons.
Thats every person who plays classic with the exception of a very small amount who had never played wow before classic.
4 days played isn’t very long, not long enough to call it a commitment, an hour a night for 3ish months isn’t much of a grind compared to other multiplayer games.
The amount of people who had their mains boosted to 60 is so small its not even worth talking about.
Its fun to play video games well, especially when theres metrics to track your performance vs others. Its built in biology for humans(primarily males) to be naturally competitive with others. So in order to be competitive you must play the game a lot and collect all the buffs and consumes, which is the only thing to do at 60 besides run to Drek a lot.
Just Vanilla:
60 Priest, 60 War Vanilla.
60 War, 60 Pally Classic 2019.
60 Rogue Anni(This guy, I have shadowcraft spaulders if you like at my PFP).
The leveling and the journey is the best part of the game imo.
I quit Retail in Cataclysm.
I have tried every Expac except for MoP and haven’t reached cap since OG Wrath.
Retail just isn’t fun during the leveling(It’s too easy) so I never got to the raiding.
Leveling in Retail is zZzZz.
If it’s only 1 hour a day for 3 months why do you boost?
There was boosting the second week dog.
There’s a lot to do at 60 you’re just don’t like any of it.
People need to go back and watch The King of Kong documentary and realize some of the people playing aren’t gamers, they are just ego farmers. Once you make that realization a lot of their behaviors make sense and have nothing to do with you.
I would just report all his posts and spam till he gets a vacation