All the things you mention do in fact affect the economy.
does that mean that it is ok to add even more ‘bad’ things? NO.
I don’t really understand your way of thinking, just because there are bad things in the game does not mean we should keep adding more.
A one-time boost won’t make them empty. People already having like 10 level 60 characters will.
Having tenths of thousands new players could change it, but we know for a fact that we won’t have a surge of new players to TBC like we had from Vanilla -> TBC.
We better hold on to what we have and make sure we can build a good community without discrimination (like anti-boosters have been doing for so long), so we can endure the expansion and make sure we are welcoming more players rather than making them go away with this attitude.
Imagine commenting in a thread you did not even read.
There are better ways to spend your time.
Imagine making another boosting thread when there’s a sea of them and getting offended when somebody didn’t read your opinion.
And then wasting your time further by responding to them.
That will sway it though they aren’t 100% reliant on player reports as Blizzard does have their own anti-cheat software to detect them which sways it back.
There’s a number of considerations that will sway that 16% one way or the other, but by far the biggest one is how often Blizzard does ban waves.
There’s a point where it’s probably more effective to target the buyers and instead just tank the demand for the gold down to nothing because people don’t want to risk their accounts.
If there’s no gold buyers, bots wont be profitable either way and Blizzard doesn’t have to try to expend the resources to do a ban wave every ~2 weeks or more.
Otherwise I suspect that the boost wont have a huge impact either way.
I did not get offended at all, I just found myself pitying you a little and that merited a respond, but don’t worry it will be the last.
Actually I made this thread just to get my opinion out there, There are plenty of threads against boosts, I just thought I could add my point of view, you can agree or disagree, we could even debate. that is all fine to me.
Thst 16% is assuming no leveling nerf (unlikely). And no gold while leveling.
Likewise. I feel bad for everyone who is so horribly distraught over boosts that they feel the need to cry about it on the forums.
So which response, that response or this one? 
Yeah, you can add your POV to the existing threads. Your opinion doesn’t require its own special thread for a hot take on it.
Man, formatting is tricky on mobile.
My main concern about boosts was not actually this topic we are debating.
It’s the fact that boosting will be creating a new player demographic of people that already have precedent of paying to skip content they don’t enjoy and will in fact be starving for gold.
So there is a very high chance that this people will pay to skip again other kinds of content they find tiring, like for example: farming gold.
I know that gold buying is already bad in classic and even retail, but I think this will just make it worse.
Yall forgetting that instead of purchasing a boost, a botter can buy multiple accounts with that same investment and within 2 weeks earn exponentially more gold.
You mean like the ones that exist now who are buying gold from gold sellers and then paying mages to boost them, who are destroying the economy and have been for months?
Yep. Which is why the “botters will boost” argument doesn’t hold water
He can also purchase multiple accounts and boost in each one of them.
I don’t see your point here.
and instead of buying those multiple accounts and boosting each of those, he can buy that many more accounts. Math is hard.
It’s astonishing that almost all the pro-boosts arguments center around, “The game and economy are already broken, so who cares.” That’s just sad.
Its amazing how almost all anti-boost arguments cling to strawmen like it was their waifu body pillow. That’s just sad on many levels.
it actually is, for you I mean.
Do you think bot farmers can sustain an unlimited amount of accounts? They don’t have infinite resources. so what will they do? they will purchase all the accounts they can realistically support and then boost every one of them.
It’s astonishing how many anti-boosters center their arguments around leveling content being dead when it already is due to mage boosters.
Yea cause distributed computing doesnt exist.
It actually is, also the toxicity on this forum is so bad it’s hilarious.
At this point all I’m hoping for is fresh servers with no boosts.