So wait, lemmie get this straight, they banned power leveling?
Isn’t that when you drag a lowbie through higher end content and they level up like a madman whilst gathering up lots of gold and loot?
So we can’t just power level our friends anymore? Can you even power level in WoW?
Boosting is usually reserved for increasing ilvl/achievements.
You’re someone who cannot beat a normal Raid, but “boost” through Heroic raid.
Or you get boosted to your 15 keys in M+
Or you pay someone to “boost” your PvP rating.
And it’s not “banned”. Certain communities are banned from advertising. Individuals and guilds can still advertise and boosting is still there and able
So it’s literally just getting optimal gear for raiding for M+? What’s bad about advertising it?
Some of it went against ToS. Such as some communities dealing with RMT which was a major no no
It’s just a change to try to legitimize it and bring it more in line with the ToS
The way I understand it, and there might be something I’m missing, but what Grizzle said:
When they say boosting, I believe they mean getting carried.
Can’t get into a guild or other such organic group to do higher end content? But still want the gear, mounts, achievements, and other rewards?
Pay someone to carry you.
Paying someone with gold = OK
Paying someone with real money (RMT) = Not OK
Paying a guild gold to carry you through that content = OK
Paying a massive, almost corporation like entity = I think still OK at least for the payer.
An individual advertising that service = OK
Massive, intrusive, spammy advertisements dominating trade chat = Not OK
And, of course, a higher level player power levelling a lowbie player through low end content, which is still possible, just not quite like it used to be = OK
That’s how I understand the whole thing. There might be something I’m missing.
Seems pretty spot on.
In game actions for in game goods = okay.
An example of what is not allowed is what happened a couple years ago from the former raid leader of Method and the guild master of Echo, who was involved in real money trading with the Gallywix boosting community.
So boosting for in-game gold and helping people gear = good
Boosting in game for real money = bad
So they blanket banned all of it because of the real money folks?
At some point the term “boost” replaced the term “paid carry”, wrongly in my opinion
/Moo
At this point it’s pretty clear you’re not here for an actual discussion since this was explained to you already by 3 different people.
Basically what’s happening is theyre banning the 3rd party communities from making level 1’s and spam advertising in trade chat for boosts , matching boosters with players & holding gold in escarot.
There was alot of RMT going on in these communities where players would hand over the gold they’d earned from a player to the community for a fee , players advertising would get money for sales etc.
There was some pretty shady sh*t going on.
Boosting is still allowed but only on your own realm , mythic+ teams can still sell keys , power levelers can still sell levels & CE guilds can still sell mythic kills however PVP boosting for say Glad titles is still against tos & constitute a ban and stripping of title & mount rewards.
As far as I know there was only one community hit with the RMT. The community as a whole was pretty much banned. The two big ones starting with an A and H operated either well within the TOS for the time or, if there was any RMT, it was extremely small. I have yet to see any actual proof from anyone claiming they did RMT.
The change is to pretty much prevent large communities from having a monopoly on the “carries for gold” across the most populated servers and put that gold back into the pocket of the mid to high end raiding guilds. Some say the change is pointless as all the big communities have to do is dissolve into guilds on specific servers with specific discords and resume operations on a more local level to be within the new TOS.
I found out that I can still buy my AOTC mount so I don’t care about the rest of it.
Never understood it anyways. Gear/rating comes and goes but mounts are forever.
Transmog and achievements are forever too. Some of us just prefer to get those in current content lol
Most transmogs and achievements stay but the AOTC mount never does but yeah I guess you’re right. Were people buying gladiator mounts and mogs? Was that what boosting was mostly about?
As someone who invested a lot of gold (7+ million) into boosts I mainly did it to catch my unthinkable number of alts up to 24x ilvl in m+ without stressing my friend group to carry them all. I enjoy playing all classes and wanted them all to be pretty beefy this time around to at least heroic raid on all of them and be competitive. It really helped me figure out what classes I really want to play vs ones that I just seen played extremely well and thought “man, that would be cool”
But chiming in. I could have swore that part of what was getting the ban hammer. Is the cross server organization boosters. Gold carries on your server is still allowed?
Yeah that’s what everyone keeps saying.
Correct, per the blue post
This policy update does not restrict individuals or guilds from using the provided in-game tools (“trade channel” chat) to buy or sell in-game items or activities for in-game currency. However, “boosting communities”, especially those who operate across multiple realms, are no longer permitted.
to buy or sell in-game items or activities for in-game currency.
AKA I can sell, with my 3 other buddies, mythic carries directly to customers. We are also allowed to use trade chat to advertise per the blue post.
Good explanation, but this - so people just buy a token? Nice solution blizz…