Botters can buy boosts, but it’s not logical for them to do so.
They should buy the boost if their supply wasn’t able to keep up with demand because it would increase sales. The millions of gold sitting tell us they have outpaced demand by a lot before the boost was available, so buying the boost might be easier, but it won’t be financially wise to do it.
That’s a great armchair analysis, but why should I, or anyone, care what you think they should be doing if they’re doing it? The door opened and they jumped through it. Blizzard threw out a massive banwave (good), but the fact that they did it proved you’re wrong.
But I get it. You’re some guy on the internet that understands their industry inside and out. You should call them up and break it down for them because they don’t know how to make money and I’m sure they’ll hire you to increase their profit margins.
The only question now is if Blizzard actually keeps up with banning boosted bots because this incident clearly showed they will if they can. The moment Blizzard stops riding them is the moment they start abusing the boost.
Oh and Blizzard is raking in the dough while they do it. Lol.
Bots might buy the boosts but it doesn’t increase their demand for their product, it increases the supply of their product. And with their supply already far outpacing the demand for said supply they don’t gain anything financially by increasing the supply because demand is where their profits come from.
Basic business understanding shows bots are not going to gain more money by increasing their investments per account. Because their increased investments of buying the boost do not effect the demand. Just the supply.
“Bots are going to buy boosts! Here’s why!”
“No they’re not! Here’s why!”
Boosts launch, botters buy boosts
“W-w-well-I mean–t-t-t-they shouldn’t be! Gosh it’s just basic business!!!”
No one cares what you think they should be doing it if they’re actually doing it nor does it really matter whether it’s because they know something you don’t or they’re just idiots, the fact is they’re doing it. That’s the end of the conversation.
But feel free to keep pouting about how you were wrong about what botters would do as if it matters.
I was never trying to say botters will never use them ever. It’s more of a it doesn’t really help them in a meaningful way that will result in more bots because it’s not financially a good choice to do it for profit.
People do economically irresponsible things every day. It doesn’t make them any less economically irresponsible.
People pay for their car insurance in 3-monthly instalments rather than 12 months in advance because they are loss averse and don’t like spending the large bulk sum even though doing so will save them money. That doesn’t make me or anyone else “wrong” to say - on the balance of probabilities - it is economically irresponsible to do so.
Your argument doesn’t actually make any sense. I think you’re clinging to this notion that OP fabricated (absent any evidence to the contrary) that people said bots wouldn’t purchase the boost whereas our argument is that bots shouldn’t purchase the boost .
The video lost me when he said he’d “buy an in game boost”…really? Buying in game boosts is hurting WoW more than the gold farmers. Hypocrite much?
Blizzard selling it’s own gold, selling it’s own boost is saving the game. It’s like you people never lived through the gold farming back in original TBC. The account hacking or the gold selling spam. If you started post BC you have zero idea what you are talking about. Absolutely none. Even Wrath was spared a lot of the drama. Just play the game. Vanilla purists are also a cancer and have zero credibility they ran an hid on private servers while the rest of us actually played the game and paid our subs and kept the lights on so that they could come and complain today.
Right, I’m the one with my head buried in the sand. Botters used the boost and you’re sitting here saying they shouldn’t they shouldn’t they shouldn’t!!!
There isn’t any fabrication here. I’ve been around the forums and saw plenty of discussions prior to boosts going live that devolved into whether botters would buy boosts or not. You’re not going to convince anyone who has been around here a while that there was some sort of wishy washy debate about if they should or not. All debates prior to launch centered around a simple debate of if they’ll buy boosts or not. No one was throwing out “Look maybe they will, but if they do they’re idiots because XYZ”.
So no, I don’t believe you and I don’t have any desire to go find “evidence” through your post history where I’m sure you talked up about how botters wouldn’t buy boosting. I wholeheartedly believe that if boosts had launched and botters had not bought boosts you’d be here puffing your chest out telling us all how right you were and how we were all morons.
You were wrong so you morphed your argument ever so slightly to appear as if you were never wrong, and quite frankly when you sit here and talk about not having evidence you really have no evidence it’s not a financially smart move, you’ve just decided to continue to push a narrative that it’s not financially smart for them to do it even though they did. You’re literally someone not in their profession telling them how to do their job. I have more inclination to believe that they know something you do not rather than believe that you know what you’re talking about and that literally no one involved in gold-farming/selling can do your basic math breakdown to figure out which is more profitable.
I stated multiple times prior to boost availability that when they go live we’re gonna find out real quick who was right and who was wrong about what they would do. If boosts had launched and botters didn’t abuse them that would ultimately be the end of the debate, but boosts launched and botters were ready to go right out of the gate because they put work into being prepared for it. You are trying to sell a notion that is contrary to all the evidence at hand that is based on your own rationale of what you believe should be more profitable which is based on your own assumptions of how their industry works.
No one should believe you or care what your opinion is on this matter.
I don’t watch him regularly, but I know he leveled all his characters to 60 without any in-game boosting and I think he’s spoken about how he’d like to see it curbed as well. I think his point was that there are solutions in the game that players have found so players have options if they want to take them rather than one artificially created via spending money outside of the game. At the end of the day while I wouldn’t be sad if in-game boosting was broken either I’d always prefer in-game solutions to credit card ones.
Logically speaking in terms of financial decisions they shouldn’t be buying the boosts. But hay, it’s not the first time a business made a poor choice.
