Holy necro, batman, lol.
Usually necros are fine, but in this case this issue is LONG overwith.
What is boosting?
Basically you don’t play the game to get the rewards for yourself , you pay others to play to get the rewards for yourself.
Alune be praised
Paying someone(often game gold) to give you items or assistance completing game content. Popular “boosting” right now could be buying the Heroic Farak Axe quest item for $1800. USD or other prices for end raid boss kills or full raid clears. Paying real world money to get in game items is generally known as against the Terms of Service. Now selling boosting for game gold is also phohibited.
awesome thanks for bumping this thread from a year ago
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In your analogy, Wow was created by America, who then banned donut shops, donut shops being the placeholder for boosters. But this is not a government closing businesses. It’s a business with digital property that is under no requirement to allow other businesses to run within it, without paying licensing fees and having consent.
Apparently it didn’t work because there’s still people advertising boosting in trade chat all day every day.
it worked perfectly fine. they were targeting a specific type of boosting, not all boosting.
There’s still tons of advertising in LFG and trade and services of boosting and carry services for Real cash linking websites though so I have to also disagree that it did anything as the advertising seems worse then ever.
Any given moment I go into the LFG search I report 10+ WTS ads linking some website that’s RMT.
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baps the human with a newspaper 
Bad necro… bad!
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)l $$ Whats a Necro?
it’s when a person replies to posts from two years ago
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I would rather be a full-time solo casual than pay someone to run me through content.
Boosting culture is deeply distasteful to me.
Gotcha, found the topic interesting and just now saw it. Many apologies. Looking at trade chat it seems to be a currently relevant topic.
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this thread was in reference to a specific policy change aimed at getting rid of inter-realm boosting “communities”. that’s it. unless you’re seeing ads in trade posted by these communities, it’s not relevant to this thread.
I read the post, I didn’t see any stipulation that it had to be from a particular boosting group or cross-realm boosting.
it’s pretty clear.
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a few of these communities were major hubs of underhanded RMT despite primarily being used by people to do gold carry boosts. This was why policy was changed and the big ones closed.
It had to be really tempting to be holding on to billions of gold to not rmt
So blizzard need only to create a character on a realm that is not the advertisers actual realm and ask them for a boost to know that their whole entire organization is violating the terms of service. Cool.