Boosting is bad, should be enforced with a ban.
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Kill the boosting completely.
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I don’t think the boosting communities were a problem. Yes, the advertising spam is a bit much. However, folks use the services. I’ve boosted before. I wanted the Jaina Proudmoore water elemental mount, but I don’t raid mythic. So I bought it.
Messaged one of the boosters. Paid them the gold. Then got invited to a guild run and it took all of like ten minutes while I sat there and looted it. A few other folks were in the run too.
This is good for the guild, because they got gold to keep raiding. This was good for me, because I got the mount I wanted. And I assume the person who set it up got a small “finders fee”.
There is nothing ethnically wrong with boosting. For the folks who say such a thing, what is the difference between someone buying a boost for gear and then someone buying a mythic BoE? The person didn’t kill the mob that dropped the gear. They didn’t earn it. They bought it with gold.
So by that logic, we need to remove BoE gear because it’s not earned.
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Don’t forget consumables, etc. That logic dictates that if you didn’t farm your own herbs and make your own pots/flasks, you shouldn’t be allowed to use them.
they’re not spamming trade, general, lookingforgroup, etc. either. carrying friends isn’t the same as boosting- there’s no advertisements and gold exchange for service.
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…Yes, yes it is. One person’s doing the work, the other isn’t.
Nah. They need to get rid of ALL advertisements. I wish they’d crack down on gold carries too. Frankly, earn it or do without. That’s my motto.
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no, it’s not. did you advertise carries? did you demand compensation? just because you played the same doesn’t make it the same. i’m sure bank robbers would love to say, “well i just went in and asked for money. i do it all the time at the other bank i have an account with.”
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Do you farm and craft your own consumables? If you don’t then you should do without. That’s the logic you’re using right now.
Not the same thing at all. Achievements should be earned. Titles/AoTC mount etc should be earned.
The “carries” take away all meaning/value/accomplishment of achievements. People with KSM should be like “Oh look, they are good at the game”, instead so many bad players have these achievements they mean nothing on skill anymore.
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And those that earn them, turn around and sell them.
Don’t blame the buyers. No one would be buying carries if it wasn’t for high IO/mythic raiders selling the service. You’re upset with the bad players when you should be upset with the good players selling this stuff.
Clearly they don’t care about the prestige of the achievement.
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Yeah, I’m pretty happy in general with them cracking down on all boosting/carries. One of the things I enjoy doing while I wait in queue or do casual things is scroll through the group finder and report any carry advertisements that I see. I’ve never been fond of them, and they’ve been a negative part of the game for a while now with the spamming.
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Good. Rulebreakers give the good guys a bad name.
Boosting has been around for years. But for some reason when Blizzard implemented it and it was no longer a third party thing, they got hate for it. Silly that Blizzard tries to make good decisions for the game and still…they get hate. If you join a raid guild and are unskilled but your guildies carry you through Sepulcher anyway…you got boosted. If you can’t do myths on your own very well but your friends push you thru it…you got boosted. If you pay gold to someone you never really met to get his friends to carry you through Sep/Myth…you got boosted. For some reason only the last one gets hate, but all three are the exact same.
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If the game adds any UI specifically for boosting, it has to do a lot more than just be the guild finder UI with a new coat of paint.
It needs to be essentially an auction house for boosting services, handling the entire transaction end to end. The character offering the service must be the character actually providing the service so there aren’t legions of spammers receiving kickbacks posting ads. Gold is transferred to the provider at the end of the run, and if the carryee is unpleased with the service the carry can be canceled, removing any benefit the carryee gained from the run and cancelling gold transfer to the provider.
This gives Blizzard more authority to police things like RMT, since paid services happening outside of the carry finder would be against the TOS and easy to detect in an automated fashion, plus posting ads anywhere else would justify a permanent ban.
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Solid idea that they’ll never do unfortunately.
At the very least, all mention of boosting or carries in public channels should be banned.
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Ban both, earn your stuff.
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You’re completely clueless.
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I just wanna sell some keys with some guildies. Why’s that such a big deal?
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