Can we just make it where you have to earn your way up and can only jump 2 keys or something to prevent all this selling - even if they are doing it for wow gold - they just turn that into real cash.
and they are still spamming general chat daily - same people over and over.
NO - you won’t because those are paying accounts generating revenue for you as a company. Funny how those Terms come up only when it’s going to bruise blizzard. Never is the player protected.
And remember we are only allowed to use positive words and phrases and blow sunshine up everyones backside - but i’m positive this ruins the game experience.
AT LEAST give us more room on the ignore list.
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just leave the services chat, and report the ones that spam in general chat.
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i think advertising carries in lfg is already against the rules but i cant say how effectively this rule is enforced.
theyre probably never going away though
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Just don’t invite or play with boosties.
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…and players buying gold from blizzard is a monetisation vertical.
Players spend $$ to buy token to sell for gold.
Players spend gold on carry.
Players spend gold on tokens (I think they just caped the amount you can use gold on right?), repairs, consumables (AH tax) etc.
Yep
WoW is a pay to win game and a huge portion of the players have no interest in content that challenges them. See: remix, delves, world quests, twinks, roleplayers, chronic levelers, casual lfr mole people …
Sales are here to stay.
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I am interested in content that entertains me. GENERALLY if there is no challenge my interest will not be held long but thats not a rule. Challenge is also not binary or a singular dimension.
Bottom line I want entertaining content first, challenge should only be a used to deliver more entertainment, not a hard block on entertainment.
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If you are seeing frequent spam for carries then you have the services chat channel on. Just turn it off.
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there is a whole discord with people who have the equivalent of an escort / companion who customizes your carry based on your needs…but it comes at a high price of course.
If you want a specific drop, for instance, you can purchase that.
Its pretty wild. Why I quit retail - kinda invalidates things from me, but I also don’t hate those that do.
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Spam is a plague and Blizz does next to nothing to stop it. In groupfinder, in calendar invites, mail, sometimes the brazen ones will even go into /2 though they tend to get report nuked fast. Saw one today in Local Defense of all channels.
Paid carries are whatever, they don’t affect me, don’t even care about RMT except that it’s the worst spam offenders.
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No. This would kill people like me who do their mains 10’s then hop to alts and do their 10’s with the friends I push keys with.
This is factually incorrect too. As someone who sold raid carries and keys for gold back in the day (BFA) all the gold I earned was for spending in the new xpac / seasons to prep for mythic raid prog. (consumables are pricy when you’re raiding at a high end so that’s where the gold is farmed from)
Report them then. They should only be typing in the Trade(services) channel. anything outside of that just report and it goes poof.
Blizz doesn’t care about this and have banned people for this in recent times.
This i agree with you on
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Integrity in this game’s been dead for years.
Carry services basically won.
Want gladiator? KSM? Current Mythic raid mount? Go to some website.
Play for yourself, don’t bother being impressed by others because anyone can buy anything, and it’s been that way for like a decade+ now, if not longer.
Services channel is dead to me, for this reason. Always just leave it.
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Use BadBoy addon to filter out sellers in your chat.
What is a “huge portion”? How many players are buying boosts? Do you have actual data?
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I think it isn’t so much about not wanting to engage in challenging content, but rather the time investment that it takes to do so, or the lack of skill to ever get anywhere with challenging content.
I went back to classic for WoTLK to re-live it again and I got to say it reminded me why I quit raiding, and why I quit classic WoTLK after Naxx. First attempt was with RL friends, and man the time investment was nuts because they sucked. Like seriously was frustrating having 3 of us carry 7 others each and every week. I got burned out and went and made a new char on another server and joined a more solid guild. We would do it 3hrs a week, maybe 4hrs. Still got burned out with time investment to do it.
Honestly don’t mind challenges, but seriously hate weekly raiding and so if I feel I want gear or something from a raid, I’ll pay for a carry and pay for gear. I wish they didn’t take away our free tier this season, as doing casual stuff, I was able to gear out pretty good in S1 for the content I play.
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RMT is outright banned in all manners.
So that just leaves boosting for Gold.
I don’t believe game developers should ever intervene, prevent, meddle, what have you when it comes to player driven economies and what someone can and can’t sell.
If I want to sing to you for an hour using In Game VOIP for 50,000 Gold, so be it.
If I want to follow someone around as a Skinning mule for 30 minutes, so be it.
If I want to run you through a M+ run that I find trivial at my gear level, so be it.
My time is my service. It’s the most valuable asset a player has.
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Plus people have been selling carries for in game gold long before tokens were even implemented.
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Yep. Some people forget about the joys of boost frost mages from the old days.
60’s make gold, ships to alt, alt gets runs from boosters. tbc paid even better lol.
Some go RMT ranting. I am not saying its not there. I am saying lots of people just farm gold on level caps to buy some blocks of runs from mages when working alts though.
Half the time the gold is more to get a block of 5 runs quick and easy vice lfg spam and wait. and the booster actually knows how to run the place.
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How does someone buying a carry negatively impact you?
I’ve been noticing a lot more ads in the LFG dungeon tab lately. Kind of annoying to sift through ads to try and find a group
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