I’m here to ask the community for some assistance. I am trying to understand why I can’t find any official stance from the developers and leads of WoW in regards to their official stance on boosting. This applies to M+, arena, and raiding. I desperately want to play next tier but I am incredibly deflated at the state of affairs.
I’ve been searching through forums, websites, etc to find any hint of their official stance on the insanely huge boosting problem in hopes that next tier will be better.
My request, someone please provide clarity or direction on the developers specifically citing their plans to fix the boost problem that’s eroding the integrity of the game as a whole. I’m hoping for some good news so I can be excited already about 9.1! Thanks in advance!
As far as I’ve read, it’s been part of the community since classic.
What changed now?
Is it the obnoxious spam? you can get an addon to blacklist carries and such.
How do the carries effect you?
They won’t come out and say either way because they know it’s unpopular with some people but acceptable to others. More importantly, it is a huge source of profit via token sales.
There are no plans. They -only- thing they’ve ever done to “combat boosting” is make it against the ToS to post carry services in the Premade Group Finder – not because they don’t want people to sell carries, but because it became so commonplace that it was hurting the purpose of the tool for normal players. (of course now it’s right back to that because either Blizzard stopped caring or players stopped reporting, maybe both)
When it comes to carries in general, their stance is just going to fall into the “unsupported trade” category. They don’t care what people sell, they don’t care if you’re willing to risk your gold, they just want it to be known that they will not interfere with unsupported transactions (see: anything not in the AH or a Trade Window) because it becomes tough to judge objectively and creates extra work for GMs.
They just got rid of multiboxing, they make get rid of boosters later. Why knows…
O better yet, make a different group tab for people bying/sellong boosting. Less spam for “normal people”, easy to find boosting for boosters, ect. Hell make it like the ge where you can post the price of a run and people can join that way
Which seems unwise. Rushing to end game means boosters are going to get bored quicker and potentially unsub. As you may know it’s great for a short term increase in profit but terrible in the long term.
I’m not sure Blizzard could put a stop to m+ and raiding boosting even if they wanted to. The only thing they could put an end to is in-game spamming for boost service, but players will always find a way to get their boost.
Just know that in-game advertising is not the only place these boost ads exist. There’s discord channels and community groups filled with players exchanging gold for carries.
I’m not a fan of boosting, but I also don’t want Blizzard always interfering with in-game player interactions.
If they took a position on something like that, the community would then expect them to take action based on the position they took.
Them saying anything about it would probably just lead to more unanswered questions and I doubt people would be satisfied with any response or statement they provide.
Like other people have said, and something I agree with, I think it benefits them so they aren’t going to come out and take a strong position on it either way.
What tools were given to players? The token’s not going anywhere, and it doesn’t serve solely to enable players to offer boosting services to other players.
