Literally already is in writing.
Yes… which are the communities that RMT.
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If youre leaving the game why wait for a “payout” unless youre talking openly of Real money trading which is why this is being shot down and strictly limited to guild activity…
Its toxic to the game ans all its facets…good riddance…
But again…what “cash out” sus is in order…
they banned the organized boosting services
you can boost on your server for gold still
The Huokan community was taking advantage of the situation and they needed to be delt with
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Probly because he just told on himself about real money trading lol
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True. But Huokan wasn’t the only player out there. And as you say, the people who play wow purely to make money off boosting for RMT or in-game gold are completely unaffected by this change. Sux but that’s the truth.
That’s the minority, though. This should drastically reduce the amount of carry spam.
Huokan number one scammers for boosts though.
As the gnomes say…
Hmmm. Interesting.
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This is dumb. The channels full of spam wasn’t the problem, nor were the carriers- the players that make it difficult for other players has always been the issue.
Sure, probably some idjits that want to cheat their way through. Who cares? There’s those that probably can’t even get into the content because of other players and that raider.i.o. - which should have been banned instead of Blizz making their own version thereby making it worse. Guaranteed that was the reason.
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they actually explicitly state that individual players/guilds can still sell boosts, but multi-realm organizations are no longer cool.
“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.”
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They didn’t ban boosting, they banned boosting communities.
My bet is they found too much RMT involved over the years. Good job Blizzard
Honestly I haven’t seen their spam in a while. I know it’s there but I don’t see it. Been using chat filtering addons for a while now. Kept my chat pretty clean. Not that you should have to do that of course.
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the thing is, this will hurt the actual gold only communities more than the RMT ones, since the RMT ones don’t care about the ToS/EULA. RMT was already against ToS before this post went live.
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Boosting communities are banned which make mass gold making possible. Realm based only boosting is like 1 sale per week compared to 20 an hour. It’s not worth it not to mention getting a single group together to boost is less safe for buyers from scammers AND way harder to pay friends. Most ppl don’t play on the same servers as their friends. If you’ve never boosted it’s understandable why you don’t get it but for boosters it’s dead period.
Thank god honestly. Don’t expect it to stop though. Gold farmers/bot organizations still exist even with the token, so I assume this will too. Maybe after some bigger communities get banned it’ll slow down.
But really. Thank you Blizzard for taking the correct stance.
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So protecting buyers from scamming and organizing it is bad? Got it. Big boost communities get audited by blizzard to prove no RMT occurs.
I refuse to believe a gold only community like huokan didn’t have RMT in it in the way of selling off their gold after they got it for profit.
So I’m not shedding tears for them.
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For if they repeal it
You uh…you don’t seriously believe that do you??? This is blizz we’re talking about here.