out of my like thousands of m+ i can probably count on my hand the amount of times I’ve had a true “boosted” KSH.
I bought a boost and thought all was ok until I showed up and was immediately kicked from the group.
Never doing that again. Yep, most of them were reported. Nothing happened.
Everyone is entitled to play the game how they want. If you buy a boost you are short cutting the game and there’s no way around that. The difference is in WoW and other mmorpgs, the grind is the game. Leveling to start, then gearing up in low keys/normal raids. Slowly working your way through harder and harder content until you’ve hit mythic raiding/gladiator pvp (whatever end game content). If you just buy everything to be done for you, what do you do? Just sit in oribos with your bought achievements/gear? You can’t queue arena with LFG players because your rating is miles above where it should be. You can’t raid in mythic raids because you still don’t know any of the fights, you didn’t go through progression like the other players. If you bought key carries, you don’t know the dungeons at a high enough level to do them on your own. You’re going to be stuck buying boosts forever. With warcraftlogs, check-pvp, and raider.io it’s pretty easy to tell a boost.
If you want to buy a carry you’re more than welcome to do so. But you cannot control how other players will react, just like they can’t control whether or not you buy a boost. At the end of the day, if you need to buy boosts I think you’ve lost the point of playing mmorpgs.
Well the name checks out 
Personally I don’t care of you are buying boosts, just don’t except it to open any doors for you is all.
Nah. I’ll happily take your gold, but ultimately I will always have a bit of laugh at those who pay real money for welfare loot that will lose relevance anyways. The idea of paying to not play a game you pay for is insane to me. WoW is a game designed to be played, not to be not-played.
If you’re buying a boost for your alt paid for with gold that you got from boosting on your main, obviously that’s a different story. It can be a long, cringey climb through pleb lands to get your ilvl 250 alt into getting M15s done. It’s much easier to get the ball rolling on an alt if you can do some boosts on your main and use the proceeds to pay for a boost on your alt, so I can completely respect that. Obviously we’re not talking about that here though.
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To a small degree I understand this philosophy and why some players buy mats and decent gear for fledgling alts. However, those are things that help the player work toward his goals. Granted, boosting is basically the last, most extreme resource, it is, as others have pointed out, just skipping the gameplay to have the rewards. Moreover, it puts the boosted player in a position that he is literally worthless at the level at which he is portraying him or herself.
The fact remains that the OP came here to explain his philosophy in all innocence, and did not get the response he was looking for.
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Can you hire me? Id love to work my way up to this
Have you considered that a genre based upon progression and socialising may not be suited to you?
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Maybe WoW isn’t the game for you right now! If you have no time to play it, don’t force yourself. You are paying to be here, not the other way around.
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no one cares
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I believe you are onto something here.
I also believe YOU are onto something here.
I believe the difference in this situation is that neither of you are on the forums preaching (bragging?) about it. We can’t stop boosting from happening, but to be real, we need to acknowledge that paying to gather end-game “stuff” is defeating the whole purpose of subscribing to the game. It is a PASTIME.
High-end communities, players, guilds (whatever) have found a way to monetize their own time investment by tapping into the avarice or laziness of a cross section of our player base. Most of us feel that needing a boost to continue in the game is not something to brag about. No hate, just opinions.
yeah i still don’t care what other people do, i’m sorry
Booster will be at every games online.
Better play with booster who knows better and booster who can coach as well
But the problem for me at SL is just the content not fun
Player will aim for BIS Gears but making Huge ilv GAP power just make the content not fun.
at new season the gears become useless
Why don’t the wealthy pay to win crowd pay with time away from their jobs, like the less well off often do?
I’m generalising here, but I’ve met a lot of MMORPG players over the years who have taken gaming holidays to vacation in virtual worlds, left work early (or arrived late), opted out of opportunities for more hours, etc - all to play their game.
But I’ve never met a wealthy player willing to do that. You’d think they’d care less about working all those hours, with their higher pay and assets to offset that.
No one actually cares if you buy a boost. Boosts predate WoW and as long as you can trade with people there will always be an incentive to trade gold for services.
The problem with boosting is that it also invites real money transactions, which are a bannable offense, as they should be.
No one would care if you were buying runs with gold. People care when you start affecting their game by bringing real life money into the picture. No one cares that your life is busy, and ‘expensive cars’ was your own decision, don’t pretend otherwise.
You specifically brought up your life style and real life commitments as reasons why you don’t have much time to spend in the game. Which makes it sound like at least for where you’re at in life right now, MMORPG’s aren’t a good fit for you.
I mean, at any given time hundreds of games probably don’t appeal to you, why does WoW need to be different?
This is what I’ve never understood, why pay someone to play the game for you when you are paying a monthly sub just to play the game.
That’s unfortunate that some people feel that way but if people want to join a guild that requires them to do something they don’t want to its on them.
I have never once felt the need to buy a boost, I slog through LFG and play the game as intended without being influenced by other peoples opinions.
When you start buying your way through the game it begs the question why even play WoW in the first place when mobile games are a lot better at that kind of thing
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This right here is the real issue. Boosting is a player made problem (which I don’t see as a problem, but for the sake of argument…)
well said.
I have plenty of time and money, so I go back and forth between doing something myself, or just paying for it where its available.
I think a LOT of WoW players do have lots of time to play and dont comprehend that many other players dont.