Its probably like all the small steps over long periods of time that inch towards the aim for monetization outside the subscription. You know somethings not right about it, but in the short term you cant put your finger on it…till maybe an expac or two later . This would be fine except you know sub consciously its all part of the design and the future is bleak because more content/changes will come to achieve this. Makes sense blizz supports and encourages boosting…isnt that lead designer a booster…suprised hes not running the service himself …maybe at some point blizz will have raid support team that can.
It’s exactly this. WoW is an MMO which means the value of everything is really decided by how difficult it is. When it is as easy as paying for a few tokens and getting a boost, it really demotivates trying to achieve it in a legit way.
Now, in reality boosted players are probably much less common than it seems. But it’s a worm that erodes the fabric of the game. It’s like undermined authenticity. Every achievement becomes questionable.
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Tell me you didn’t read the post without saying you did.
Yes, and yes. Players are also dumb/unwilling to get put in the effort to get better at the game, or to obtain something. Boosting wouldn’t be so widespread if there wasn’t a demand from lazy gamers for it in the first place.
It’s no different than mage powerleveling/gold farming in WoW Classic.
I have enough gold to pay for such, but I would be caught dead ever paying for a boost. It defeats the point of playing the game. We pay to play, not pay to avoid playing.
Also, boosting encourages people to not play with randoms unless bribed to do so. It teaches people to lose the sense of good from that.
Not to mention the constant SPAM that happens in trade chat and LFG from people advertising boosting. It makes the game look bad.
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Well that’s the most egregious place…who gives af about PVE?
I don’t have enough energy to hate anything. Time? Worthless. but energy… no
A lot of people including myself
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it’s not worth it
I read it. They disallowed that as a reason. Yeah, don’t care about that. Mostly because it is the reason.
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Because it called pay to win. Any other questions?
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personally I hate boosting. But same time if that option is there for me to make some gold then why not. I like gold more than hate boosting
I personally just do not care about it but tbh it’s never really affected me because I’ve never gone messing around in group finder for raids, PvP or Mythic+
These are both good reason to hate boosting. Why put aside PvP boosting which has removed any semblance of competitiveness?
There’s a lot of good reasons to hate boosting. I hate it because it’s an intended result of a process designed to increase token sales by making changes to the game that give players a long, tedious grind that can be skipped with an item purchased in the cash shop. The game is less fun because of these changes.
The fact that a player can “earn” his way into end game on his own, taking months (or even many months without connections) to get there, while another player not much different in skill but willing or able to spend cash can be playing end game tomorrow is the deal.
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I’m no pro player, but if I needed a carry to at least do the content I like, I’d quit.
I like being able to contribute and help out. I don’t want to be carried like I’m useless ._.
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Communities like Huokan flood chat all day and night. That’s the problem.
The side problem is boosting is inherently bad because it undermines achievement. At the same time though it is reasonable to pay someone to get something so I would argue boosting itself isn’t something that can be reasonably solved nor does it need to be.
Out of sight out of mind.
Yep, this is all that has to be done. Let Huokan do their crap just let them know to stop the spam or else. RMT should still be auctioned but honestly sometimes dealing with certain evils to keep the peace might happen, unfortunate as that is to say.
The devil you know and all that.
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As for the other guilds selling or other websites, I would just do the same with them. Guilds who would face actioned accounts for spamming would stop fast. Wowvender… well idk what could ever solve that.
The only thing that makes me hate boosting is the way sellers bombard people with ads every chance they get. It seems to be better now that it requires an authenticator but the premade group finder was absolutely awful to use for YEARS due to how infested it was with ads, any time I wanted to run a dungeon at least half of the listings started with [WTS]. If it wasn’t for the ads then I really wouldn’t care about it personally.
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A) It breaks the integrity of the game.
Titles, mount, achievement are framed in the game as items to be earned, not bought. When you buy them, you are breaking the frame, and therefore the integrity, of the game.
B) It is unethical.
It’s like me paying my grandson RL money to give me Boardwalk in Monopoly. It is corrupt behaviour based on a corrupt ideology that money should entitle people to anything they want. (Which is what led to the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal.)
C) It is dishonest.
Since the in-game framing is that those items are earned, it makes it look like the buyer earned them when they did not.
D) It casts doubt on, tarnishing, rewards earned legitimately.
And it’s sad because if folks are willing to sell out their integrity for a title in a game, they must be easily corrupted for real rewards in RL and last thing the world needs right now is more ethically-challenged people.
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Guilds advertising carries goes all the way back to vanilla and was never a big deal. Because what guilds do is have ONE person occasionally saying something in trade chat. Blizzard even put in the restriction on broadcasts-per-minute and it was designed around ONE person advertising in chat.
Which is fine.
What guilds don’t do on their servers is have a cluster of barkers simultaneously advertising. Or, at least, I’ve never seen anyone do that.
It wasn’t until Huokan started having 20+ carnival barkers going at once on every server for their ONE service that there was a problem.
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Big businesses making money from the game is a big part of the problem. If it were just guilds and small groups selling boosts it would be much more low key.
I see the same level 10 bot broadcasting the huokan ad 24 hours a day.