The ban on sales communities is a great thing, and one to be celebrated. However, it does leave a hole in the market now. People do still want to buy and sell these boosts. Since the service itself wasn’t banned, just the community element, I think we need an in-game UI that solves for that.
My initial thought would be something akin to a bulletin board, or reskinned LFM panel. It could be as simple as a different tab in the LFM panel that’s specifically for services. In that “Looking For Service” panel, you could then sort by gold/cost or service.
This wouldn’t need to be limited to just M+ or Raid carries (although I expect that would be the majority), but also could extend to any other service you can think of in the game. Power leveling? PVP coaching? Class coaching? Goldshire Services? Whatever.
Good idea? Bad Idea? Why/Why not?
Those transactions are not supported by Blizzard. They’re not against EULA, but they are unsupported. They’re not creating a UI element for unsupported stuff.
Please note that boosting and carry services are unsupported.
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It’s not supported until it is supported.
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Whatever that’s supposed to mean. Policy is right there for everyone to read.
I’d like for Blizzard to have servers without the external sales communities, the WoW Token system, and the in-game store. I’d pay double the sub for that.
It means it is only unsupported as long as Blizzard says so. The implication being wanting Blizzard to say so, just as asking for boosting communities to be banned entails Blizzard changing their stance on boosting g communities.
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You should ask for not player trade too, this is a social interaction like paying a mage for a portal back in vanilla/classic.
I don’t see how it could ever be supported because of the time between payment and service. That’s why it’s not supported.
It just isn’t supported because blizzard doesn’t have an easy way to see the agreement and the service. I am not sure OP idea’s would be enough for them though, they would have to have some simple way to check if the carry was actually done.
Some sort of rating system similar to Uber could work, right? Like 5 star ratings for teams that gave you a great experience, or a 1-star rating for scumlords that didn’t. Surely there’s a way they could handle this without the need for tickets.
That’s something that I’m sure already exists, outside the game.
It did. But it just got banned. lol
They banned advertising as a community, because you’d get spammed even on smaller servers. Discord still exist. Players can come up with a rating system, a la RIO. Unless boosting isn’t that widespread.
I think you miss understood my comment. I’m not against what you described. I’m against the outside organizations that have formed large sales communities that do it. The ones that are targeted buy this new ban. I was just describing the complete type of server I’d like to have.
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How would that work do you think? A website where you can buy/sell services for gold, but only sortable by server would be a pretty slippery slope into RMT or cross-server sales.
Raider io, Undermine Journey, Etc all come straight from the Blizzard API. But something like this would have to be entirely unique and self-sustained. And could be pretty difficult to prove doesn’t have any RMA?
I think an in-game solution would just avoid all that mess.
Regardless, there’s just no way Blizzard starts officially supporting Boosting. Why would they? When you boost, you skip a huge part of the game.
So my original post was not whether or not Blizzard would officially support boosting. It was to gauge the desire for an in-game trading system for services similar to LFG.
The “Blizzard will never do X” argument is pretty weak anyway… In the last 17 years, we’ve seen mounts, transmog, pets, subscription time, and entire other games all purchasable with WoW gold through the Token system. They change their stance on things often.
Seeing them add something like this to the in-game UI wouldn’t be out of the question or even out of character IMO.
Tokens was to curb RMT a bit while making money themselves on their own IP. Also allowed players that couldn’t afford to play be able to pay with gold. Not really relevant to boosting.
If you can blame the token about something, it’s to blame for the high price the boosts are in the first place.
This community has a bunch of trolls anyway. If I ever was a booster (I will never be but for the sake of argument, let’s pretend) I wouldn’t want my rating tanked because random guy rated me down because he didn’t get the trinket he wanted.
I might be for some type of in LFG system but not for cross server.