As the thread name says, I don’t understand why it seems they just act without repercussions.
I’ve been hearing that bans are more frequent though, so I’m really happy to hear Blizzard is starting to crack down on this stuff. I just wish they stopped plaguing the game. For the whole of Shadowlands, Arena got ruined by boosters everywhere and all those people doing 10k games per month with full gear at 1700. LFG always had sales adverts. I don’t get why this still happens.
What worries me is that so many people just silently accept the existence of these businesses. Like really the ultimate result of these websites is just to let people play the game LESS, reduce the ‘value and effort’ of every achievement, and slowly take the soul out of the game. I’m a father with two kids, I’m very busy, but I don’t give in to this stuff. I just play it slow at my own pace, reach Keystone Master at the end of the season, maybe get 1600/1800 in arena in the last week. but I respect the rules. Proud to say I’ve never swiped my card on these scummy sites at least.
Supply and demand. And where there’s a will there’s a way.
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Silently accept? A lot of them are customers especially around the forums.
Because Blizzard is unable to do anything that will remove them from the internet.
I think they should hold stings and ban carriers who participate in cash sales, but apparently putting fear into mythic raiders that they might lose their top character isn’t something they want to do.
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There’s the ticket. Everyone plays the game their own way and you shouldnt let it affect how and why you play your game.
Also… zero post low level alt. I think I know where we are going with this.
Because Blizzard probably doesn’t have the legal authority to take down 3rd party websites that originate in another nation.
Maybe they’ll have some legal clout if the website is hosted from a US location, but otherwise, there’s little they could do.
And it’d be like whacking a mole, if they did successfully bring down a website through a lawsuit, the scammers just make a new website somewhere else.
Why do you care?
WoW has been p2w for years, the difference is that people do it “legally” by buying tokens.
the end result is the same.
Everyone plays the game their own way and you shouldnt let it affect how and why you play your game.
Your advice is literally people can cheat because it doesn’t affect you. Which just blanantly isn’t true in the slightest. Stupid take is stupid.
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Capitalism. Players don’t care about fair play, the corporations certainly don’t. Why would they shut down a source of increased revenue just to virtue signal to an audience that doesn’t care about fair play?
You all use DBM. What do you expect?
Because AKB cant do anything about them, plus the vast majority of them are not even located in the states.
Carriers know there is no enforcement, so there will never be consequences for them.
This is the only answer.
They operate in countries with less laws regarding IP, making them extremely expensive to take down.
Blizz is willing to do it if one gets too big though, look at honor buddy.
It’s probably an ffxiv player. They normalized breaking the ToS in that community.
cuz rich people run the “time vs money” equation and decided the time outweighed the money. they also don’t value the achievement of it the same way you do.
you’re familiar with the four “types” of gamer, yes?
you’re an f1 type - you like beating difficult content and displaying your achievement in so doing. to you, the competition itself is most of the fun. your KSM mount is a side effect of the physical work you put it to get your m+ rating - a benchmark that tells other people you’ve reached a certain level of skill.
people buying boosts, on the other hand, are more likely a mix of f2 types (they want to be top of the leaderboard, don’t care how they get there, and the actual play is a grind they can fortunately skip with cash or gold in order to brag about the reward to the people who don’t know better). these are the players who buy glad boosts and then clutter up your arenas playing poorly.
the other type of boost buyers are “a”/collector types, who get hit hard with FOMO by limited time collectables. this group don’t care about the keys but do collect titles and mounts and can’t stand the thought of having a blank spot in the collection. they’ll buy KSM, never do another key, and probably not even use the mount but can rest easy knowing that at least they have it.
There’s always going to be a market for stuff like this unless blizzard decides to do some insane 1984 style stuff in game that makes it pretty much impossible to boost. Its stuff that should be taken care of but you really only can do so much.
At the end of the day, there’s not much any one person can do about it which is why many people have decided to let it be.
Eh, not so much. Said random player is worried about RMT still existing.
This player cannot do anything about it, and by all accounts isnt partaking in it… so why get up in arms about it? Itll still be an issue tomorrow, better to just game and not be stressed about stuff that you cannot fix. Yes, its annoying but the few times you come across an RMT boosted character that “detracts” from your gaming experience will probably be once in a blue moon… so get the blood pressure down and try to enjoy your slice of the game.