This was in Vanilla too… I actually had guild members doing it solely to contribute to guild bank. I mean, why not? win for the guild, win for the lowbie.
It’s just economy doing its thing.
If you’re on your first character, then I can sympathize. But by now, it’s just 60s on their alts trying to get their alts to 60 ASAP.
There are tons of 60s who are leveling alts. I don’t see why anyone would care if they are trying to bypass the leveling they have already done by paying gold for boosts.
If you want a harder dungeon crawl then just find a group of like minded players and ignore the boosters.
It’s more rampant now because of technology. People can multibox all of classic. And just make loot from having you follow and clean up and pay them for it.
It’s not the same game and will never be the same game again.
You know the biggest problem with wow retail and from what I have seen in classic.
People. They hate people. In and out of the game people just don’t like each other and only form groups and clicks to get something they need. I’m in a guild with 900*. Members that remove anyone not active for a week. So it’s alot of activity. And all I hear is them whine about other people all day. Someone stole MY HERB. Someone rolled on MY GEAR. This dude is farming MY MOBS. I can’t stand people, or I had a customer bla bla bla. It’s funny and sad at the same time.
How many times have you joined a group and they just don’t communicate.
Won’t even say hi or hello.
The average player in their 30s without a level 60 main does not have the gold to be spamming boost services. If, as you seem to believe, a majority of players haven’t hit 60 yet then there should be no problem finding people not doing boost groups.
Uh, you realize that there’s no possible way any addon can tell the number of players, right? Characters, even though that addon has always been wildly inaccurate, but not players.
Can we start reporting people for the whole zoomer/boomer meme stuff? Selling dungeon runs has been a thing since early Vanilla. People asking for help farming lower instances for SM/Stocks etc to get certain items has also been a thing.