I am on Area 52 and trade chat is a constant stream of selling Torghast runs, CN boosts, M+ Boosts PVP boosts etc…I know very few people will reply to this post admitting they boosted but there wouldn’t be tons and tons and tons of spam selling it if people weren’t buying it.
I mean this honestly: why is this so popular? If you are paying to get all end game stuff, what’s the point in playing? Do you really have any sense of accomplishment in game?
Ok, so I get someone can level to 60 from 50 in 1/2 a day and then pay for what, like 10 M+ boosts and a CN boost and be completely near end game geared… but then what? Whets the point of logging in? I just don’t get it… Maybe there is something I hadn’t considered? Help me here folks -
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For the same reason people cheat in first person shooters, probably. Unlike in those games it has no effect on you, so why do you care?
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So they can hop into BG’s and smash people or go into raids and crush dps. Or just show off to people.
I can’t exactly blame the people that buy boosts either. If you have the money to blow then it makes sense for people to pay for quick carries to get geared up rather than actually spending time in game.
Kinda the same reason people pay extra money at theme parks for fast passes. It’s worth the money to save time and get to the fun stuff faster.
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THAT is an interesting Analogy… ok, that makes a little more sense. I wonder if these are the same people that buy all these runs to get fully geared and then complain there is no more content and the end game is boring heh :
more like, to get accepted into groups.
Boosting wouldn’t be so popular if the community didn’t have unrealistic expectations of who can / should apply for a PuG.
Just like people lying in their real life resume because companies expect you to have 10 years of experience right after you graduated from your masters… Companies have unrealistic expectations.
Can’t blame people for wanting to circumvent the system even if I don’t partake.
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People always look for the easy way out.
Another big reason is because gearing is just awful. So much for “pride and accomplishment”
JUst how they like to play. They work on achievements, can’t be asked for the end game achievements so they pay for it. Doesn’t affect me so I don’t care. Boosting has been a thing since forever.
I can’t wait until I win the lottery so that I can just pay someone to play WoW for me. I mean, why have fun when you can pay someone to have fun for you, right? Think about it, you can get Cutting Edge without the carpel tunnel! You can time M+25’s without missing any reruns of The Office! Think about all the free time you will have. It sounds like heaven to me.
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I mean sure. I don’t think it’s any one reason. It just comes down to it being a lot easier to pay for carries then to do the actual content.
Most likely lol
I didn’t even think about the PVP reason since I don’t PVP… that does make a little more sense to me though.
Do you pug? Did you pug your way up from bad starter gear all the way to where you are? Or did you and your guildies, none of whom would ever dream of pugging with the riffraff, work together to complete content that was intentionally designed to make it much harder to pug?
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Loot funnels are more efficient than the weekly vault for gearing, the people who played vanilla all have decent jobs now and can afford to pay the funnel… this isn’t rocket science
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I don’t see the appeal myself, but it’s not my money/gold that people use to boost so makes little difference to me.
Or I dont have the time to grind the gear anymore, but would like to run 10-15s or not get trucked in pvp.
I considered buying some runs just so I can run the content I want to.
Decided against it, but I can see why people do it.
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Spare money, instant satisfaction, that sorta thing. Boosting has been a part of this game for a long time.
Yeah I mean I literally said that was also a reason in the next sentence of my post…
They enjoy doing the content but don’t want to be trash on the meterz
Are you assuming that the only thing in the game that provides a sense of accomplishment is the acquisition of gear through content you perceive as a challenge? There’s more to wow than gear and raids.
Everything else in the game? What I loved when I was a raider was full clearing in one night because that meant I could spend the rest of the week collecting 
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Reiterating for emphasis.
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I feel like there’s 2 types of run buyers.
Most of them don’t care about playing the game, they just want the thing, they probably never would have done that content anyway (KSM buyers, mythic mount buyers)
and people who are bored, bought a run on an alt in legion because he wouldn’t get excepted to mythic+ groups and just did the run normally like I hadn’t paid /shrug.