Boosting/carries are a cancer on this game… Those who don’t see that are either boosters, boostees, or just blind and dumb.
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Defeats the point of being a game when it’s just one big shopping mall of paid services.
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It makes blizzard money so there is 0 chance of it being against ToS
How exactly would pushing the game back to the way it was intended to be played kill it?
Yea, those PvP/raid loggers selling the carries would actually have to farm for mats to make consumables instead of just buying them off the AH.
And the players buying the carries would have to actually play the game. Instead of buying their way into top tier gear.
Edit: Thinking about this a little more, selling carries activity hurts Blizzards time played metrics. The buyers don’t have to invest the actual time required to get the prizes.
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No its not…
Selling is not against the ToS, and honestly, even if it was, it would happen anyway. Where there is a demand, there will always be a supply.
Advertising is the real problem, and that’s already against the ToS.
In a fantasy setting, it’s not unfounded to imagine sell-swords helping people through dungeons for money. Pretty sure that’s how the D&D movie from the 90s started out. This type of thing fits into a fantasy universe.
What does this word mean to you?
The short answer was already in the comment you replied to. The only way to stop people from selling carries is ban ALL boosts/carries, otherwise they will just sell on other platforms.
Do you think the game would survive if you were not allowed to play with your friends because you significantly out gear them?
Do you think the game would survive if guilds were no longer allowed to help players gear up so they could join their raids?
Do you think the game would survive if you couldn’t help a friend gear his alt through M+s with carries?
There is no way to tell the difference…so you can’t stop the carries without preventing players to play together…which would kill an MMO
Oh, I’ve seen that guy. It always struck me as odd to try and sell that, but if he gets bites, well good for him.
What exactly is wrong with boosting? If a player is putting in effort to earn gold, why can’t they spend it as they see fit? If a booster is putting in the effort to get to a level to where they can actually provide the boosting service, why can’t they charge and provide for services as they see fit?
Boosting communities should definitely all be banned. They’re annoying and almost all of them sell gold for real money. Yes, even the one (insert top 50 guild name) uses.
However, without selling carries I wouldn’t be playing this game. I won’t pay blizzard real money and I make a couple mil a month by selling carries through trade chat
My take on it is they could have put that same effort, if all they did was farm gold, into joining a raid team and acquiring gear. But the path of least resistance is they bought a token then bought a run. With the token it’s very unlikely they farmed gold then bought a run. Especially when the price of a run is the price of a token. It’s taking potential raiders out of the community’s they are boosting one by one until we have a few geared teams getting paid by a bunch of people who paid for their gold.
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I understand your token argument. There’s something to be said if “the path of least resistance” is doing work in the real world to spend money in a video game. That tells me that there’s something inherently wrong within the game, if people would rather spend hard-earned dollars to progress in the game itself.
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Not a thing
The way the game was intended to be played
If no gold changes hands, it’s the way the game was intended to be played.
Yes there is, if gold changes hands it’s bad for the game. If your guild is just helping another player catch up, it’s intended game play.
Ive been Alliance since I started playing. Never really had much luck finding a raid guild on this side, so…
I’ve had the raid carry catch up on the horde side. Then I worked with the lead hunter to get my numbers where they needed to be. I was able to retain my spot and earn the AOTCs in Legion, instead of buying the carry. I never had to spend a copper for my spot, I earned it through attendance and performance.
That’s how the game should be played.
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But you didn’t respond to the overall point…How does Blizzard tell the difference and moderate it?
“WTS” makes it pretty obvious
So you are ok with boosts as long as they only sell them on discord and third part sites?
You gonna finance my raid consumes personally then?
I don’t care about boost/carries but the spam in trade does get annoying at times. Also some of the prices are insane like 1.5 million for a heroic raid clear. I joined pugs with some decent welfare epics and completed it.