Nothing stops RMT. It will just shift the meta. If you actually believe this, you’re cooked.
Sweats will find a new meta.
Bots will find a new meta.
This will only affect casuals and the “semi-hardcore”.
Strath pally farm will still be goated GPH and won’t get affected by the CC change. Every sweat you know is BOOSTING a human paladin right now if they don’t already have one. Bots/Gold farmers too.
Just pure copium dude. You know it, I know it. RMT is just as bad without GDKP as it was in 2019 (im not saying it wouldnt be worse with GDKP,) but you def didnt slow it down. And it wont slow down in TBC either. And most big guilds are gonna do GDKP anyways /shrug.
People making third accounts right now and saying f the rules, we’re gonna do what we want. Can’t ban everyone.
This is a wild thing to say when you know for a fact (even if you don’t agree with it) that many people find leveling excruciating. You’re basically saying, “It’s so great seeing all these people hating their lives right now! :DDD”
A fully complete game exists at level cap and people especially aren’t playing TBCC for the Vanilla leveling experience. Unironically there should be an option to start every new character at 58 (and then 68 for Wrath).
Seriously have you ever played TBC? Done a strat clear as a 70 paladin? Doesn’t trigger the anti boost measures. My man thinks RMT is gonna stop, when its going to be even easier for bots to farm raw gold.
If the goal was leveling engagement, there wouldn’t be any paid boosting at all, and dungeon boosting would be nerfed. Instead, anyone who wants to level a Vanilla race character can start leveling right now, or simply pay for a level 58. The only players being forced to level will be Blood Elves and Draenei. And it will get worse after the portal opens, as less people focus on leveling 1-60 and focus on Outland content. Only the people with the most time and experience will get Blood Elves and Draenei to 60 by the time the portal opens. Blizzard has setup the worst possible experience for people. It will benefit no one. There is no positive spin and Blizzard definitely did not think this combination through unless their goal was to dissuade players from wanting to play as the new races. Leveling in TBC as a new race is not fun. In the beginning there is so much competition for quests that the starting areas become slow. It’s actually faster to get summoned to the other starting areas and quest there. This overcrowding continues unless you outpace the wave of new characters, or you fall dramatically behind. Dungeon grouping also becomes less fun as the classes you can group with are limited, especially on Horde. Paladins aren’t that great at tanking in the early levels, and if no one is leveling a warrior or a druid then dungeons become that much harder. Why would anyone on Horde level a warrior or a druid when they can simply pay to boost one instantly to 58. You might see a few Draenei warriors, but on Horde you will be stuck with Paladin, Rogue, Hunter, Priest, Mage, and Warlock. This is why so many people end up quitting when leveling Blood Elves in early TBC and go back to their other characters. They end up missing out on TBC content for the first few months as they slog their way to 60, then another month or two before they even step into a TBC raid as a Blood Elf.
Additionally, these changes are clearly made to make the shop boost more attractive.
Boosting and botting has been a problem since classic and tbc re release 6 years ago and blizzard was aware of it.
If their intention was to truly stop RMT and bots, they would have implemented these changes since anniversary classic release, not at the start of tbc or in tbc. They knew about this problem WAY longer before anniversary realms were even a thing.
I myself, leveled a mage and planned to solo level in dungeons in tbc and farm gold for MYSELF without the intentions of boosting, why? Because the economy is screwed due to bots and RMT’ers. Most of them will carry over the gold from classic to tbc and some of them will have gold cap. So instead of RMT’ing for boosts, people will be forced to buy gold so they could buy raid consumables.
No more solo farming raw gold for raid consumes as a mage or pally in dungeons, while the bots will still do that with flying hacks and spawn camping nodes and herbs in the open world, while the legitimate player cannot herb, mine or farm dungeons for gold .
This is a drastic change with the idea to stop RMT when it will push players even more to buy gold.
Ideally, all they could have done is just ban it without any changes to the mechanics. It worked with GDKP, I dont see why it would not work with boosting as well.