The mental gymnastics it takes to justify boosts and carries is pathetic. Imagine paying to not play a game.
The blame ultimately does fall on Blizzard, though, because they’re the ones that designed and created the conditions for people to feel the need to sell and buy boosts.
huge game - someone with less than 18000 achievements point should realize this, people don’t have time to do everything.
I’m not playing the game because I’d rather make gold from professions and spend it the way I want?
It’s a game, man. I totally get and respect where you’re coming from. I’m not faulting you, and I’m not disagreeing or agreeing with you; just coming at things from a more philosophical perspective. In your mind it lessens and cheapens your experience because you allow it to. Because you think the only way something can mean anything is if you work hard for it. My point is that maybe they aren’t working for the same things you’re working for. Or maybe the trophies and achievements they are after don’t mean as much to that player as they do to you. You value hard work and effort and that’s great. Not everybody does. That doesn’t make them “wrong”.
If a person boosts their toon, it doesn’t change the fact that you put all kinds of hard work into yours. Be proud of your own hard work- why worry so much about what somebody else does? You say it lessens and cheapens your experience. I’m still not understanding how.
They do earn it. Just not in the same way you did.
This is what I meant earlier what I said that this more about how you think the game should be played. And, again, that is fine you think and feel that way. You’re entitled to your own opinions. But not everybody plays the game the same way you do.
Never really understood the hate for boosting (as long is it is not RMT). People sell their abilities and skill at the game for gold; it is no different than someone selling their other skills in-game.
When I came back to the game in 8.3 from playing Classic, I did not have time to get AOTC for N’zoth so I farmed anchor weed and bought it; no shame in it for me
If they had to purchase someone to carry them while they hid in a corner. That is not earning it. And nothing you say will change my mind on that. That’s what boosts are. “Go jump off a cliff and we’ll do the rest.” That isn’t earning it.
I’m done responding on this one to you. You claim you’re coming at it from a more “philospohical standpoint”. I disagree there too. You have a good one.
Tell me you’re not open-minded without telling me you’re not open-minded.
Ah well. Have fun sticking your nose down at other players.
It’s like saying paying a mage for a port is a slap in the face to those who have to walk/run/swim everywhere. Therefore anyone who pays for a port is a “bad” player.
I just got hit by 31k mortal strike on my 34k hp. WTB Boost.
A lot of the responses on this thread are demonstrative of the toxicity causing people to end up trading goods for services. You are the ones who kick someone without explanation because you don’t like their parse. The ones of you looking up logs are the ones who make everyone else miserable in the game. You expect everyone else to be ace on day one. You want everyone to be meta with bis on day 1 of the new raid. Rather than trying to get your guild geared in the new content you miraculously think they should already come with raid gear from the new raid. When you make the game so unenjoyable for other players, of course they are going to find help from someone else. There are so many toxic people ruining end game content. You are the ones who bust a key because someone died on the first pull. Holy crap guys it’s 5 seconds off the clock. That’s all. Your life isn’t over. Blizz’s culture of only putting the highest rewards in M+ and Heroic/mythic raiding is also ruining the benefits of the game for all players. Nobody wants to just do LFR and Heroics because that’s all they can access, especially during the content droughts. So stop being miserable curmudgeons and actually do what you say you’re going to do in your guild recruitments too. If you say you’re going to help new members get geared then do so. Don’t resent them when they show up to raid and get mad because you and your besties are hoarding the gear drops. Or accuse them of leeching off of the guild because coming to raid is they get geared. Telling your members to do things outside and alone with no help is also toxic – it’s basically an order to go get boosted. Instead you leave them out of activities because your core group is full of your besties… If you’re really this upset about people getting boosted, or if you look down on them with such disdain, then look at your own behavior and realize that you might only have yourself to blame.
Depends on job but i disagree
Humanbeaks agenda changes with the seasons. By March his anti blizzard rhetoric will be back. Don’t forget to floss everyday humanbeak.
Imagine wanting to get a little gear on an alt while getting AotC? What an awful thing, right?
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But more than ever, as raids get harder and players leave, recruiters are poaching and cannibalizing the carcasses of dead guilds whose GM’s decided to stop logging in.
It’s bizarre that some people complain so heavily about boostees. Considering a lot of us will fund boosts through professions, I highly wonder how the holier-than-thou types would excel in the game if it weren’t for those of us who supply flasks, enchants, gems etc.
AOTC is account wide. If you had it on your main, your alt would have it as well.
Every. Single. Bit. Of this. Thank you @trashydruid for saying it. Not everybody is competitive, not everybody is a professional, not everybody takes the game seriously. It is, after all, just a game. The world isn’t going to spin off its axis just because some people choose to play the game differently.
If a person does take the game seriously, and/or is a professional player, that’s also fine. Just stop turning your nose down at the other players who don’t play the same as you. There’s this sense of entitlement people have “I actually worked hard for this therefore it is more meaningful and it makes me better than you” is a cancer that permeates the WoW community.
If you pay someone to do your homework for you, you don’t deserve the good grade. In fact, they’ll actually throw you out of school for that.
In game terms, if you don’t do the stuff, you don’t get the drops. There’s plenty of decent gear available in Korthia for alts for minimum effort and time.
I’ve got no time or inclination for mythic + or mythic raiding, so I don’t have that gear. So what?
PVE boosts aren’t a problem. The PVP boosts are a problem, but only because they rank-gated gear and now that they’re making a profit, they won’t fix it.
If boosting was just a short route to things that didn’t affect others, zero people would care.