I’m almost positive.
They want all the profit. Just how it is lol.
There’s no other conclusion presentable imo.
I’d assume so, we’re seeing it with Addons too though right? Can’t make people pay for addons afaik, but if you just put it behind a sub only metric, there you go
could be different, not sure how it works tbh
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Yeah definitely. I just suspect that providing a platform for people to exchange money legally is a huge headache.
Yeah same.
O yeah 100%.
Way easier to be the boogieman and threaten a ban. Most people will just settle for in game currency and just be fine with it.
Like I don’t need to make money off wow. So when I was doing 1400-1800 carries just did for any arbitrary amount of gold. I’m safe. Gets me what I needed. Everyone was happy.
But you can best believe it was always “okay well I need my token to sell first”. Before payment.
There isn’t a difference. Boosting is boosting. Frankly in a game where a large part of the community just wants to do random BGs without being at a gear disadvantage, I don’t blame most of the people for buying them anyway. The only time I raise a brow to it is when someone buys a glad title then starts egoing people.
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RMT boosting is one of those things where the Kantian inside everyone just genuinely knows, all other pragmatic & practical implications aside, is just wrong. Is it some supreme moral evil? Obviously not. But it’s just pretty simple deliberate cheating and it absolutely has people that it hurts.
Every argument FOR any RMT imo comes down to some kind of “is it really even that bad”. It’s based on kind of screwing over people trying to compete on the ladder. You can say “So it capitalism” or “All of life is about facing things that aren’t fair”, or go the “good players adapt” route. You can also play the argument that some players who are really not financially well-off irl are give money they really need in exchange for something as simple as giving an in-game title to someone who didn’t deserve it.
Like start said, I can see utilitarian reasons for it. Have a lot of friends who’ve done it. Imo the deontologist in anyone can pretty simply say it’s not a good thing though, the only question is how “not good” and whether it’s really the end of the world some people treat it as.
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Saydar this is the arena forums, how many people do you genuinely expect to know what the word, “Deontologist” is? C’mon man, you are literally smarter than that.
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My only experience with any kind of boosting is how it affects the lower brackets of the ladder. Meaning when you run into people under 1600 in full duelist gear one shotting everything because they just out gear them while playing with a partner(s) that they clearly out gear. Throwing they are probably better players as well at it’s GG. This is course isn’t always the case of a straight out boost either. Sometimes it’s someone players with alts or friends as well. This happens in RBGs and Arena. Frustrating to say the least.
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agree it will always exist to some degree but the current systems/gearing/reward design massively increases the motivation to use boosts/carries/pilots
when the design is great the boosts/carries/pilots are a much lower percentage of matches and it doesn’t feel nearly as punitive
I’ve literally watched tons of R1 and tournament winning players pilot other people’s accounts pretty much since wow arena was created, and it will never stop. However it didn’t tend to chase out the entire lower half (or more) of the ladder until recent systems design.
Funny story but most of them would run honorbuddy on the pilots back in the days when honorbuddy was dominating. Most were completely burnt out and did whatever was easiest/fastest. Some still use some cheat scripts because it speeds things up and they don’t care about the piloted account like they care for their own. But a good chunk of them were just regular play the entire time, even when completely burnt out.
great post dude
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ouch. rip.
I want to add as well the more levels/ranks of gear there are the more boosting can prosper really.
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Great points made, and I really appreciate the open conversation here. It’s a pleasure to see.
Hoping to see/read some more experiences or opinions from both sides of this (for/against) before we record Tuesday evening.
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And they thought it was bad in shadowlands, its out of control today…
Almost like Blizzard ignores it.
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