Hey guys - it seems boost-selling teams are at the ready with multiple ads and plans for the upcoming release. Although this never meant much for retail (considering Blizzard provides it’s own boosting services), it would more than certainly do some serious damage to Classic’s community building and progression.
How can we counter this? Is Blizzard looking at this? Do they have any legal means to fight these websites (i.e. LegionFarm), which seem to be openly recruiting ‘employees’ for gaming work clearly against their product’s ToS?
Boosting has always been and will always be in WoW. People who do this are just hurting themselves… as the person who would normally buy a boost probably needs it because of how bad they are. They are just doing themselves an injustice by making sure they get a fresh level 60 and have no idea how to play it.
Honestly the only thing I’m surprised about (which this could have been normal), is that I saw these adds on MMOchamp which you would think they would be better than that.
Did you play vanilla? This crap was around then. Nothing really to worry about, blizz will do their best to crack down on this stuff, including gold selling, as they did then.
This pretty much. You probably know someone whos bought gold or services too. Heck, even some of the people who will post and agree might. Nothing that can be done as long as people are willing to pay for it.
You get ahead of the curve. It’s a snowball effect, the more ahead you are the more ahead you get. Think of all the low level players you can exploit for gold. You can get really rich.
I’m sure blizzard has tools in place to trigger an alarm if an account is played for 4-5 days straight from a place like China, then played after from kansas or whatever…
Also, boosters tend to do things that are reputation damaging, like ninja looting, needing on everything, ticking off people while questing/leveling. All things that will make the actual account owners game time miserable…
I think there will be a market for gold sellers, but boosts will not be as much of a problem. It’s not like retail where the entire game is built around the end game. Leveling is part of why most people are coming back. The people racing to 60 are not going to trust a boost because they could do it better themselves.
It was one of those things that I always found funny. Just like all whispers from people? (bots?) with the blizz as part of their name. Blizzwizard “your account has been suspended for illegal activities please go to website xxxxx to clear this up”
Because using blizz in your name made you an authentic blizzard employee.
Im not going to boost, but then again a guy living with his parents that can play 12 hours a day should not have advantage over me playing 1 hour a day
