So i dont know where else to let blizz know what i think, and im sure nobody cares anyway, but please dont do boosting. Especially with Blizz’s historical ability to control botting. That’s it. At least I can say I tried.
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80% of the community wants their one time boost.
It’s just the forum minority and a couple big streamers that are against it.
Boosting is already a big part of the classic economy- and most of the gold circulating is from bought gold off botters.
I support it since it’s a one time thing which will let a lot of people come back to experience 60-70 tbc which is what most people want. People that didn’t play classic, don’t really wanna level from 1-60 as they did it 15 years ago.
Having a one time boost opens up the market.
Thanks for listening
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Can you show me anywhere where you got that 80% figure from ? I’ll wait
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Repeat after me class “bots won’t buy boosts”
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Anyone saying bots won’t buy boosts clearly has 0 insight into the world of botting and gold selling. They are making uneducated assumptions about something they have zero comprehension.
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Anyone suggesting bots will buy boosts don’t know the first thing about business and are simply regurgitating misinformation propaganda .
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Once again you have 0 insight into a bot empire. I’m not regurgitating anything, I know people deeply involved in chinese gold selling networks. (Yes they are chinese)
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I just took the number of current players, and the number of active forum users, divided those and then multiplied that number by 100 which then I rounded up to the nearest 10% which was 90%
I’m sorry that you’re 0.01% of the community
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I know ppl too, and they say you’re full of it
You seem like the type that wipes without toilet paper just to get back to slapping your keyboard with nonsense all day
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IDK about 80%, but I do know “the majority” are more in favor in jumping right into Outlands than having to drudge through Classic World, in order to start leveling in Outlands.
You’re welcome!
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How scientific
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Go look on these sites that sell gold.
There is 0 chance they will ever buy a boost as the supply is so high that the demand doesn’t keep up, there isn’t enough gold being bought to justify needing more bots faster.
On one of the popular sites there is almost a BILLION gold up for sale for my server.
There is 0 chance they would ever need to buy the boost as people aren’t really buying a billion gold.
There are people on the site with more than 10 million gold for sale from just 1 seller, all the sellers combined add up to almost a billion gold.
There would be no financial justification to buy a boost.
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I was anti-boost to begin, but now don’t feel it will have a significant impact one way or another.
In regards to botting, Blizzard’s ban waves are so glacially slow that, at least for the big gold networks, there will be little incentive to bot a boost when one could bot another character in a few days for the cost of a sub, an inarguably better ROI than paying $25-30 + new sub. Even for individuals, if they didn’t bot before, the chances of them botting a boosted character going forward is slim-to-none.
In regards to players, it will also have mostly minimal impact as well, given that it’s one per account and there’s no Bnet transfer to manipulate. Some may use it to make a druid farmer, some may use it to reroll, some may use it just to have another alt - any way it goes, you can only play one character per account at a time, so it’s not like the servers are going to swell.
I get the hesitancy, but it does seem misguided. The thing that worries me more than the direct impact is the indirect impact. If this becomes a gateway for other changes, it will be disappointing.
Edit: It’s entirely uneconomical to boost and bot. Given a sub costs $15/mo max, it costs ~$0.493/day over the course of a year to play if paying monthly. Even if it took two weeks to bot a fresh character, and that would be really slow, that’s $6.90 vs the current Shadowlands boost cost of $60. Given that sellers already anticipate bans, there’s about a zero percent chance they throw away those potential earnings on mass boosting.
Ha! Since when do you care about accurate information?
He doesn’t. He just watches asmongold so he must be right
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Go to twitter.
This is a discussions forums.
We don’t care what you think about boosting. It doesn’t matter.
I care. You dont speak for me.
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Your opinion is irrelevant.
Botters won’t buy boosts. It’s very simple math.
Boosts are going to cost roughly 40-60 dollars. But for the sake of simplicity I’ll use 45 dollars as the cost for boosts. 45 dollars is roughly equal to 3 subscriptions. Maybe more depending on where you live.
So let me ask you this OP. Why would a booster pay for a boost when they could use the same money to open 3-5 more bot accounts? The answer is. They wouldn’t. Buying a boost is an unnecessary cost for a botter to take on. There is no benefit for them to do so because it cuts into the total number of bots they can run. And ultimately cuts into the total amount of gold they’re able to farm.