Make a “Boosting Community Finder” similar to Guild Finder where communities or guild/individuals can advertise and people who want to boost can just go there. Ban boosting ads in all chat channels in the process. Everyone wins.
This “kill the legit communities and push everyone to RMT” charade has gone on long enough. Legit boosting communities who never scammed or RMT’ed got caught in this fire and not only did they suffer, but so did their customers (who are also your customers), some of which very likely went RMT as a result.
This didn’t have to be an all-or-nothing approach. Please fix it.
No, they made their beds with the constant abusive spam and now they get to sleep in it. Probably what Blizzard needs to do is start enforcing the ban on ads in Group Finder and to start doing some under cover stings or carries for RL cash.
Huoverpricedkon was certainly a culprit of this, yes, and so were the RMTers (who havent’ stopped btw), but there were other communities such as SLB and WD that didn’t actually do abusive spamming.
This became yet another example of one or two entities ruining it for everyone else, although Blizz still could’ve went much softer and simply moved everything to a dedicated channel or a community finder.
With how incessant and scam-riddled boosting communities have shown to be, and are also perceived to be by the majority of players… its in Blizzard’s best interest to not reverse that decision or my guess is there would be more than a few subs cancelled.
this is a non-starter, but another solid troll compared to what else has been posted this morning!
if people complain about how to make gold to make raid supplies how about playing the game or farming gold instead of promoting this sort of lazy thing
So you would rather facilitate something unethical such as boosting and having people pay to get carried through content they have no business being in, instead of simply clicking a button to ignore the person doing the advertising.
See, now that is where you are wrong. There is a distinct difference between “boosting” vs. “boosting communities”
Its the communities that caused the problem. You can have simple peer-to-peer boosting and not have problems, but once the communities and cross-realm groups started getting into Musk-type gold levels, they took it 38 steps too far. Cant walk that back now lol.
It’s effectively an indirect pay to win model. The real money goes to Blizzard, then Blizzard has subcontractors perform the service in exchange for fake money. But, instead of Blizzard paying the subcontractors directly, they give the means of payment back to the person purchasing the service. ie. In game gold that some sell for RMT.
That way Blizzard can deny that they are providing a pay to win service. The gearing system is not going to change. Blizzard is unethical and the system is corrupt.
