With Blizzard absolutely annihilating Mage Tower “boosting” like they should, prices are surely going to skyrocket and go RMT-only to avoid account-sharing detection. The cost of services will certainly include:
-Flying to/from the buyer’s location
-Staying at a hotel at the buyer’s location
-Incidentals/meal expenses
-Uber to/from hotel to buyer’s house
-Noseplugs to tolerate the stench of the buyer’s house
-(In many cases) Full-PPE to safely pilot within a biohazardous environment
The silver lining is that as WoW players, we’re typically ultra-reclusive hermits, so nobody has to worry about this actually happening (more than a few times).
It’s nice seeing Blizzard take account-sharing and RMT much more seriously now. Let’s hope this latest ban wave leaves a stain that’s putrid enough to scare off most and/or all future account-sharing buyers and sellers. The RMT and “piloting” industry is a plague that must be beaten back into the depths of hell where it belongs.
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The sellers will never be scared off. All they will do is just give a warning to the buyers.
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You only need to scare off the buyers to take care of the seller problem 
I’m genuinely curious how many people spent wads of cash to unlock their precious Guardian Fel Bear, only to find a nice vacation and possibly removal of the bear from their account.
Speaking of which, I think it’s time to go look at some achievements of those who admitted to boosting in MT to see if those achievements are still there…
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All it takes is one ban wave like this to make it clear that any time this event is up, Blizzard will be looking at suspicious activity and you are at risk if you try to buy a pilot.
People would rather not get banned and will buy a Mythic boost instead if they feel like splurging.
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Imagine creating a game mode, testing it, advertising the heck out of it to entice customers back, increasing the difficulty dramatically to the point that players who were duped into returning can’t complete it, then banning players who were so frustrated with the game mode that they were willing to sacrifice their account’s security. Not saying RMT and account sharing is ok, but Blizz maybe needs to look at the root cause of the problem.
I started looking at achievements of those who say they got banned and noticed a strange pattern, where the one-challenge achievement and seven-challenge mount achievement are obtained within a day or two of each other.
How strange. Must be super highly-skilled players wrongly targeted!
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The root cause being entitlement.
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Well of course I mean the mage tower was never intended to be conquered. Gotta keep the over skilled people outta wow somehow. 
Truly the most skilled of gamers. They decided to drive across the country to escape the noise of life and activate gamer mode, displaying a hidden level of learning and skill that would shock and awe. Yes, this makes so much sense.
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Makes you wonder if Blizz missed one.
No. The root cause being Blizzard lied by testing at one difficulty and then increasing the difficulty the day of launch.
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I’d be willing to put A LOT of money on the line saying that everyone who uses this as their excuse never even tested it on the PTR in the first place. So, they literally have no base line experience to go on to compare. In addition, they tuned and nerfed multiple class/specs MT after release.
Ngl,and call me naive, but I’m seriously shocked that people boosted the mage tower. Boosting m+, raids and pvp rating I get, but a solo challenge?
Cosmetics locked behind a challenge=if there’s a way to nope out, even if it means breaking the rules, some people will do just that.
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“Our data shows good performance on a recent challenge not consistent with your known play behavior”
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if it takes this much to get a boost then good, make it harder to do RMT to the point where it’s ridiculous and also get banned
Ya, good point…
I’m aware of at least 1 GD’er/forum regular that I suspect may be caught up in this or guilty of buying a “pilot” boost for his book mount 
Just out of curiosity I looked up his armory just now, and both the “Towering Success” and “A Tour a Towers” achievement show as being earned on the same Saturday (!!!)
Considering that even top 1%ers took at least a few days to earn their book, while honest/non-cheating GD’ers took a few weeks, it makes you wonder 
Either he’s SUCH a god at the game that he “miraculously” went in on a Saturday and one-shotted every Mage Tower challenge, or… or… something else happened 
Also, said poster hasn’t made a single forum post since like 2 days ago
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Oooooo, this is turning into a game of Clue.
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