Can you prove that they partake in RMT, if you can that that would be a surefire way to get them to stop spamming. Similar to gallywix, blizzard isn’t going to stop them either. It’s simply too hard to filter out all the spam and prevent further spam. Given similar to filters put in by add-ons, any filter they come up with will be circumvented in mere hours when they figure out all the filtered words. Then make a new message around the filters. The only literal way they can at least control the spam is to make third channel for the boost spam. Then ban anyone that spams in general or trade with boosting services. That way it’s all filtered, and you can simply tune out of the channel similar to trade and general chat.
I have a simple question…
Why should paying customers ignore a game wrecking business, using Blizzard’s official public channels for financial gains, only to scoff at the terms of service. Why doesn’t Blizzard remove the bad actors themselves?
We all know the answer, but I felt like typing something that sounded witty at the time. 
Edit: I see my post count dropped by 4 today. Maybe I know too much about the Matrix?
I’d gladly take a Blizz job to just ban botters and sellers all day.
I mean at one end they do earn a lot of money through advertisers making numerous accounts to spam with. Yet at the same time it’s just insanely hard to just up and ban everyone thats spamming for boost services. As it comes down yto how do you filter out the ones that are spamming to sell an item in game? They about use the same wording and so forth, and blizzard’s only way to combat the issue is to set filters in chat. That the game can cross reference and action against accounts. Seeing as they would have to have a whole team across all servers of GM’s. In order to watch and ban accounts in trade chat.
There is no one size fit all solution, there is no this is the way to 100% solve the problem and wham bam slam its cupcakes and rainbows again. The only way would be to do what I suggested to at least filter it. It’s the best we can do and are going to be able to do, as any global chat will have similar things occurring. Given enough time as spamming for services is just simply too lucrative.
Issue comes in with filtering is it’s easily bypassed. That’s why that addon that was mentioned earlier doesn’t work on my server same with the /ignore function. Even with /ignore being account wide, they do rotate accounts in order to bypass the ignore function. You’re right there’s no “one size fits all” solution and it would be tricky to fix without hurting a good chunk of the player base with it. Like people not even spamming their adverts (like starlight or nova for example they don’t spam their adverts) could be caught up or someone trying to sell transmog, or advertise for their guild recruitment. Phrasing can easily cause hickups for other people in the channel.
One method, that idk how much of it would make a difference is any form of boosting advertising is bannable, however, players stating “I would like to run x y and z offering a reward of 100k.” then people whisper them may be an option but even then how would that be policed and what would that particular thing lead to? Would that be considered boosting spam just trying to find a group with a reward offered? What if a player was LFG with too many LFG lines (like they made a macro and kept smashing it)? Also would too many whispers to a player would spook them and they back out, or would the players be reported by people that weren’t accepted?
Lot of what ifs in that scenario and others. Thing is, it’s to the point, honestly, it feels nothing can be done about it, least on high pop servers. Low pop and medium pop servers from what I can see have zero issues with trade chat spam due to either no advertisers at all or very very few.
Call me even crazier, but i don’t think that what they are doing is toxic at all if anything they are using trade chat for what it is…you know… trading.
But i forgot everything is “toxic” when someone doesn’t like it, such a buzzword.
I boosted for Huokan there is no real money involved its all in game gold.
You’d be surprised how many people are willing to do it.
Yeah for trade, but not for spamming. Like I stated before I have seen them post the same ad 3-4 times within a couple of minutes.
Stop speaking down to people, and why should people have to turn off trade because people are spamming 24/7? I made a toon on Sargeras cause they are heavy Alliance, trade is like a ghost town because the majority of players blocked it, that is just ridiculous.
As long as token sales are a thing.
It’ll never be “fixed”. This is what wow is now.
Curious - what exactly happens to the gold? Is it distributed to boosters to use to buy tokens or something?
I think they get a portion of whatever it sold for. So if sells for 200k for example the boosting group gets their cut, the boosters get their cut then the advertisers get their cut and the rate depends on who boosts. I heard you make more advertising than you do doing the boosts but idk I never helped boost in a community.
I know when I was in a guild that did it the gold was split 5 ways for M+. 4 for the people doing the boost then 1 for the GB but we had the recruitment officer blurting in trade that we were doing it when we were all on (and he wouldn’t spam it just once every few minutes). I forget how raid was though, but that was just a small thing in a guild to help pay for guild materials not a big community. Set it up like 3 days in advance etc for folk.
Another group I was in for jaina carries would split it 19 ways (last person being the boostee that gave the gold for the mount). I think in communities you can use it on wow tokens or w/e you wanted to basically but I think all the gold has to go into a pool that has a log of where the gold came from and from who etc then distributed accordingly.
least from my limited knowledge of how this all works that is.
I’m fairly certain it is sold for $ on websites owned by the same people. Trust me when I say they aren’t doing all of that work for fake money.
yeah I am sure you miss all the ‘a__l’ messaging.
People get their cuts then do whatever they want with them.
Cover expenses, buy stuff from the black market auction house, pay for mage tower consumables, etc.
Ah ok. There’s always rumors floating around about how that gold is resold elsewhere for RMT and yada yada but it never made a whole lot of sense to me considering 200k gold is worth $15 blizz balance of 30-day game time after all.
True that. They need to lower those prices. I can’t spend 350k gold for a heroic carry.
Well, what happened with Gallywix is over a period of time the organization’s gold kept building and building and building and after a point it got to the point they were like, “we are just gonna sell it what else we gonna do with it.” Least from my understanding of the reddit post on why they were banned etc.
That’s the thing though after a while the gold will pile up so much it’s like “what do they do with the massive pile.” You know what I mean?