Blizzard,
If you are going to insist on allowing players to purchase boosts through content to achieve the rewards intended for players who overcame a challenge, at the very least, require all people spamming “boosting services” to be relegated to a specific channel called “Services”.
It’s not that hard to do. It’s not that much work. Please do it.
Thanks!
If Blizz is going to insist on letting people talk politics and other not-game related topics…They should be forced to use general or an off topic channel.
No reason to make trade chat unusable with posts that have nothing to do with trade.
You misunderstand. Trade chat is for trading words and items. It is a cultural icon that has withstood the test of time and deserves to remain a place for great minds to converse. What won’t stand the test of time, is your purchasing of boosting services. It is your transgressions that led you to comment on my thread.
Repent and you will be free!
So actual buying/selling in the trade channel is the problem? Fancy.
I was under the impression boosting wasn’t allowed at all? What was that stuff from a couple months ago.
And I hate to be the one to say it but even if such a channel existed …they would still use trade.
I would take it a step further and add a dedicated group finder tab for carries that handles the gold exchange and adds the requirement that the character advertising has to be the character providing the carry.
Why?
Cross server community boosting isnt allowed but non community ones are
Boosting is still allowed. They just changed the rules about how it can be done and advertised
They specifically targeted cross server boosting communities
^^
eBay gnome has fixated on my thread with his weird strawman argument.
Blizzard needs to decide if it wants normal people to play its games or people like Nikolo, lol.
Fantastic idea.
Really hope they do this.
It should have some sort of commerical jingle everytime you enter that channel/chat. Like the Dr Pepper one.
While I do agree with you I don’t hate the amount of gold I made doing these during bfa.
But do you really see A lot of this spam in guild? I don’t. Except for one guy who pretends he’s from some made up guild but clearly is offering RMT. I usually just report the level 1 accounts lol
The problem is that reporting is currently time-intensive for Blizzard, as they allow “guild and group” boosting, but not “cross-server community” boosting. This means for each report, Blizzard has to go in and try to determine if it is A or B, and ban accordingly. This takes time, and is not entirely accurate; there are large swathes of reports they certainly cannot determine, and likely do not act on unless a number of reports have been issued against a single player.
By contrast, creating a binary filter for Trade Chat so that all boosting services are disallowed, enforcing policy would be much easier, and could even become partially automated rendering it much more effective.
You’re assuming people would use that channel and that channel only. They can’t even do that now with what they have. It’s not necessarily on Blizzard for this when the players themselves just ignore the purpose of X channel for whatever whenever.
It’s also a big thing that while there are legit boosters operating within the new rules laid down, it is also an issue of bots that are not who spam.
You made a lot of assumptions with this comment
It may surprise you but “normal people” are typically the customers who are buying carries. The carry market exists because players want it to
Its also wierd that you consider the idea that trade chat should be used for trade a strawman argument
Leilleath, please try to see from the perspective of Blizzard. They are receiving reports, many of which are on blocks of text that do not explicitly violate their terms now, and as such, cannot act on those reports.
By instead implementing a ban of all boosting services in Trade Chat, all reports for any services would be valid and render consequences as violations of policy. This means any report can come in, be quickly looked at as either selling a boost/service or not, and be acted upon as such.
Contrast that with what we have now, where each report has to be investigated as to whether it is a valid boost, or an invalid boost. The amount of time spent is astronomically higher, and warrants a higher report threshold before actions can be taken.
The change I have suggested is the best solution without outright banning boosts, which I would also support, but I know better than to be optimistic with regards to Blizzard, so I offered the concrete, compromise position of relegating boosts and services to their own channel.
I have never heard that one before. is it also for trading insults?
Absolutely! This is WoW after all.
We have all spent some time or another just yucking it up with /2 and that cultural lynch pin is slowly eroding with the constant spam of services that frankly undermine the entire organization of the game world. That needs to change.
I’m a CS nerd boredly surfing GD. Generally, this is my baseline setting.
By knee-jerking and implementing this change, it’s going to be even more work and countering their initial ruling that Trade Chat is the ONLY legitimate place that these services can be advertised. Anywhere else and people get sanctioned. To make that shift, there would have to be a grace period where it would be having to warn people. Then there would be the headache of all of those who would absolutely flood the ticketing system because “I didn’t know!!!” - the song of our people who still can’t grasp rules that have existed since the game was first released who must now shift to a new metric when that grace period ends and the hardline sanctions kick in.
And then there would be those people who don’t agree with boosting of any sort who would sit there and report anyone and everyone who even posted in that channel - because yes. There are those people. You’re targetting a subgroup for immediate harassment.
I’m not saying it’s not a good idea, but there is no guarantee that it would work.
It absolutely would work, and the price for that success would be anyone selling a boost in trade chat would receive consequences (24hr mute → 3-day mute → 1 week mute) no exceptions. I’m sorry that it sounds like you and those close to you may have been involved in selling boosts. I’m sorry if that makes you feel marginalized. Please try to care about the World of Warcraft more than you care about your specific place in it.