Congratulations Blizzard you’re just as stupid and out of touch with your game as ever! Banning boosting communities A.) Hurts a massive player base who subs to your game even though the content sucks. B.) Hurts boosters making gold the fuels economy and buyers who can’t do the content. C.) hurts your own token sales/subs. D.) Increases RMT bc now legal boosting is illegal. The only negative was “trade chat is full of spam” which there’s an addon that filters out??? Or make a separate channel??? What exactly did you accomplish other than alienating your biggest die hard player base? How does RWF fund their race except for donations? This is god awful regulations. Thanks. Unsubs, cya never after my payout.
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Selling carries isn’t banned, though.
Also nobody will be sad about the loss of communities except whales who just pay people to play the game for them, but they don’t actually play with other people, so no loss.
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sell boost on your own realm if you want.
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“This policy update does not restrict individuals or guilds from using the provided in-game tools (“trade channel” chat) to buy or sell in-game items or activities for in-game currency.”
from the announcement.
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Source? (Other than a hilarious reddit post 
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Because advertising on your front lawn isn’t the same as running a nation-wide ad? It has an impact.
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pinned at the top of general
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I get asking for a source, but in this case the source is easier to find than this thread discussing it.
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They’re banning boosting communities, the ones that RMT.
Oh no, you’ll have to buy boosts from legit players now, that’ll actually use the gold for raid consumables instead of selling it for IRL money.
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There’s a blue post about it.
This is very interesting. I never expected them to take qn actual stance on boosting. I wonder if this is just large communities or if it includes a guild selling a raid slot for someone to get AOTC.
Really glad to see Arena boosting go though. It made arena impossible to climb as a new-to PvP player. Almost every one of my game in Dhadowpqnds S1 towards the end had a 1200 player and someone in full glad gear in a 1600 game.
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It will be interesting to see how this plays out. The wording leaves epic size loopholes for the creative… and I’m betting this just pushes more of the transaction outside of WoW.
I hope it has the intended effect, but the devil in the details here is quite prominent.
Lmao. None of this is gonna stop boosting comms. Blizz has no control over Discord.
And what about the massive scamming Huokan community?
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No, they’re also banning the huge communities who operated on multiple realms & regions.
So now either you’re someone who uses these services you best hope either 1) You can figure out how to move large amounts of gold to the realm guilds selling are on 2) You can do RMT without getting scammed or banned, or 3) Add this onto another reason to quit the game.
The whole idea of banning these massive communities is fine up until you think that not everyone is on the handful of massive servers that have guilds that’re actively selling carries and Blizzard seems would rather let the game die than actually address dead servers
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Ill believe it when I actually see it in writing
Here’s the thing, though
Boosting communities are safe, rules-wise. So you have a lot of people engaging in it to make some safe, legitimate gold. If Blizz catches wind that somebody is associated with an org then people could get randomly smacked, so the safety aspect is gone, and nobody wants to log into a 6 month ban on raid night.
Obviously there are some hardcore boosters who’ll find some way around it, but for the average booster (basically just an average or above average keystone or raid player) they won’t be comfortable.
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Why does the payout matter if you unsub?
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Make a topic Ybarra loses job for boosting.
It would be risky but it would be fun.
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