The entire game now revolves around making gold for irl profit and the game is in a sad state because of it.
The gold spammers were 1000% better than boost spammers. It’s a big part of the reason why SL is my last WoW expansion. This feels like an anti social game that was meant to be social. Wish I coulda ended it on a good xpack but who knows when the next good one will be.
I’ll say this for the umpteenth time - the token is how I am still subbed. I earn gold ingame and use it to buy tokens which I then use to extend my subscription, which is great for someone on a limited pension. Whatever you may dislike about it, I like it for that reason a great deal.
Boosting happens because of players. Its a player-created problem; if no one took up the offers there would be none offered. So if you want to blame anyone, blame the people who keep it happening.
Wouldn’t you rather spend your hard earned gold on something in game than boring sub fee?
Im not sure how the token is that bad that it makes you quit. Like, if it bothers you that much dont purchase it?
It just a portion of the entire token disease, the game’s community interaction is also in a terrible state because of it.
remove the +15 cap , vault and 80% of boosting is gone
It’s not. It’s the attention these threads generate they crave.
You uh … leaving your totems with anyone?
A player-created problem that Blizzard could easily resolve.
Let’s not act like a player-created problem implicates that Blizzard isn’t obligated to fix it. If it’s a detriment to the game, then it should be fixed.
I think it’s a combination of things and assumptions 
For instance, OP said
the game’s community interaction is also in a terrible state because of it.
So maybe they believe that if the token didn’t exist then boosting wouldn’t exist and the community would all turn into happy social butterflies
Like what?
And its a bit pointless if I cant log on because I cant afford to play. And yes, I know its not much but then I dont get that much and I have things like food, bills, medicals, etc to pay for.
What is…
anyhow? If it didn’t exist, do you think that magically people stop buying gold? No, they would just go to gold sellers the way they did before tokens.
It’s not a player-created problem at all. There was a small amount of boosting prior to the wow token. Changes to the game designed to encourage players to shortcut past annoying grinds that are there for the purpose of encouraging players to buy an item in the cash shop, that’s not a player-created issue.
I’m only speaking to the logic of the comment I was responding to. Whether it’s a Blizzard issue or a player issue, the fact is that Blizzard has the capacity to fix it. People throw the term “player issue” around as if that absolves Blizzard from any sort of obligation to fixing it for other players it directly affects.
You know what this is starting to sound like?
Of course its player-created. Such things are always market-driven. When there is demand, there is supply. It has always been there, but back then it was all done offline through websites and by making deals with gold sellers. People just equate the token with boosting because the token is more public and available through the game. If you think it didn’t happen before you are wrong.
Whatever ills people wish to lay at Blizzard’s feet, I dont believe that they created the token to support boosting, that’s purely something the players might decide to do. They did it to stop the problem of people getting hacked by gold sellers and yes, to make themselves some extra money. Even if they took it away tomorrow, there is little they could do to stop boosting. Such things are easily organised through Discord channels and other off-game methods. While people want it and are willing to hand over their gold or real money, it will keep happening.
Player behavior changes in response to game changes and the options that are open to them. This is entirely in Blizzard’s control. If they didn’t want boosting, they could start by enforcing their own advertising rules. They don’t.
Now we see constant advertisements linking to RMT websites and mage tower carries. All totally bannable, and nothing is done.
I can’t remember seeing a single boost advertisement before the token. It was all LFG, not You buy boost now!
Ah, I remember the days of corpses lined up in front of the Org AH to spell out a certain gold seller website…
Yeah, not very public at all, that was… 
Yeah there were still gold spammers but those are like a speck in the wind compared to the boost spam.
I sold ICC GDKP runs 
and SoO boosts
and HFC boosts
Maybe some Dragon Soul boosts too 
oh and dungeon carries for people that didn’t want to quest back in Cata/MoP 