Bots will pay 4 dollar sub fees and 12 dollars for the boost.
They will be boosting, 100%. Blizzard knows this, and is likely counting on it.
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You can’t seriously be this stupid?
You do know mage boosting doesn’t work in TBC yeah?
Also, if boosting is a problem, why not nerf boosting and remove it from the game altogether?
You people that just say “games ruined already, lets ruin it further” are actually insane to me.
Instead of trying to fix boosting, which you admit is detrimental to the game, you’d rather see it legitimised by blizzard?!??!
Seriously what in the actual hell goes on inside some people brains.
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Why would they pay 12$ for a boost when the advantage it gives is not significantly higher than just auto-leveling a character?
The thing is - when the account is banned - that’s an investment that can not be recouped.
Yeah seriously, anti-cheat just needs to be freakin active. You are dead on about that and I did say in my points that anti-cheat should be on. But as to being in the air. They can likely fast track getting mote extractors and gathering from clouds as a means to avoid general public detection. If not that way, then they farm gold as quickly as they can from various places not caring about what competition is present. Heck, if we really want to get rid of bots, suggest TBC doesn’t require a subscription and then see how much Blizz cares about these botters selling gold in there game.
Bots will have zero issue recouping the cost of the boost. There are bots on my friends list from months ago.
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An account that is levelling might be free but IT ISN’T MAKING ANY MONEY.
They are paying $14 so that they can start farming 1000s of gold NOW.
It is absolutely more profitable for them to pay the $14 fee and start making money straight away as opposed to waiting a week before they can start earning.
Imagine you got offered a job, it pays $200 a day, but the boss says you can’t start for 2 weeks because of some bs government admin thing, however there is a $50 service that fast tracks the admin work so you can work today if you wanted.
Would you rather
A: Not work for 2 weeks and miss out out on making $2000
or
B: Pay the small admin fee of $50 and start making $200 a day right now?
Yeh, bots will absolutely be paying the fee, because it means they get to start earning RIGHT NOW.
Say some botter gets his entire fleet wiped out in a ban wave, you think he is going to spend weeks/months building up new bots?
No, they are going to spend money to get back in the game TODAY, because that’s where the money is.
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That $14 could be used for 3 more accounts instead and turn that 1k a day profit into 4k a day (4 accounts) after the first week, which result in more profit by week 3 than that one boosted account would make, and then 4X the profit by week 4.
The reason you think they will be using the boosts is because your looking at the immediate profit option instead of the long term profit.
Bots take about 2-3 months to be banned
That means by using the money to buy additional accounts instead of the boost they can gain 4X the profit by month 1. 16+X the profit by month 2. 32+X the profit by month 3. Because every week past week3, the 4 accounts will be making 4X the profit of the one boosted account. That’s assuming the account+boost is the same cost of 4 accounts. For the first month, and then just the cost of maintaining the accounts as active.
The short term profit per expense does have bots using boosts but the long term (average time between ban waves) will result in more profit by having extra accounts instead of a boost. And it hits that point of the multi accounts being better by week 3, which is far under the 2-3 months it usually takes for bot ban waves.
If the goal of the bots was to turn a quick profit and leave, they would use the boosts, but they are in it for the long hall. As proof of this. Botting has been a problem in wow since vanilla, 15+ years. That is a long hall operation, not a quick buck scam.
Even to extract motes, they must land.
Yes, but they can be out of sight otherwise. Just come down when programmed to check for mote and then back up they go.
Um… yes. an account that is leveling can make money.
Do you play WoW? How do people afford mounts or skills?
You can 100% make money leveling.
And that doesn’t happen with the bots now who are under the ground or fly hacking, or… literally teleporting to node spots… lol
Flying doesn’t change much in terms of bots farming nodes.
The evidence is clear, many people have no comprehension of basic math. Yet you’re assuming all botters are good at it. Consider the possibility that the proportion of dumb botters is approximately the same as the number of dumb forum posters. By that calculation most botters will buy a boost.
you are assuming the bots gold per hour is 42 gold. LOL
in current classic there are already bottable instance farms that are 200-800g/hr
It will be far higher than that. expect bot instance farms to be between 500-1000g per hour. I actually don’t think node farming will be that profitable among bots. The most valuable thing out of them will be motes, not the actual ores or herbs
Please answer this mathematical question so I can understand your viewpoint…
In TBC - you can assume one can level to 58 within three days.
(automated leveling following efficient routes).
X = the dollar amount you can farm at max level.
Y = the dollar amount you would recieve by leveling.
In order for the boost to be profitable - the time you save from boosting (three days) would have to be worth at least X + Y.
Are you saying you could make more than 14$ (by selling THAT gold) in three days if the character was at max level?
Because if that’s not the case… boosts are not profitable.
Who cares?
The only people who can answer this are the botters lmfao.
What you loser nerds don’t understand is the farmer can now buy new transmute alts and then get those primals going on whatever server. So they farm the parts mail to the transmute sell for whatever huge price they will go for becuase blizz refuses raising gold sinks.
Does it matter? That is only relevant if you can make more than the boost cost in the time that it would take to level the character (otherwise its more economically efficient to just level).
No becuase the time to level on cheaper currency plus the fact they sell in USD plus prof abilities from infinite boosted toons will mean even more profits than just farming a dung.
Sure they will.
You just dont get it, the FIRST prices are gunna be nuts with the stockpile. They want to boost and get lots ready FIRST to make most gold.