Evidently you have no intention of an actual discussion and simply want to invent a narrative to suit your argument. I know better than to waste my time anymore on someone who refuses to understand what they themselves are saying, let alone what other people respond with
Because funding multiple accounts and boosting are not mutually exclusive. You could boost both accounts if you wanted. The boost being more efficient for botters really comes down to one factor. The pricing. If the price of the boost is LESS then the value of the amount of gold they could make in the time they would have otherwise spent levelling, then the boost will be good for them.
Ok. Why boost both accounts when you can instead pay for 4 subs?
Why boost those 4 when you can instead pay for 8 subs?
Why not boost 8 and sub 8. Obviously, at certain point it’s a matter of scale because botters have limited start up costs and management skills. But the point is the same, if levelling takes say 4 days, and they can make an amount of gold at 58 in 4 days that is worth more than the cost of the boost, then the boost is profitable for them.
No because if those players enjoy the boost more power to them, since it’s no harm to me in game great.
Well it remains to be seen if it will cause any problems, I don’t think it will. And at this point you can’t quantify an actual problem beyond a vague “it’s bad mmkay”
Well that’s gonna make your task proving boosts actually caused an issue that much harder now isn’t it 
Why sub and boost 8 when you can sub 16?
We can do this all day until the point sinks in, dude
No its not, they already have 800+ million gold on most servers, they dont have the demand to warrant spending actual money on a boost.
The supply is much much greater than the demand.
You are acting as if they need MORE GOLD on any server RIGHT NOW. Which they clearly dont.
No… This assumes infinite demand for gold. The botters have millions of gold in stock, and an army of bots farming more than they currently sell. Buying a boost is illogical!
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It also assumes that even if all that gold was wiped they wouldn’t be able to meet demand without boosting.
They already did.
But that’s not the same as saying the game will see a significant increase in players.
The problem is, we have to act on logic and reasonable prediction because the boost is pandora’s box. Once it’s in the game, it cannot be taken out.
Not really because we will still know that the boosters exist and will be contributing to the over-population so to some degree, I will be right and if the pro-boosters are right, then it will be contributing by a lot.
then why is there still an active botting problem on servers right now. Surely they could just stop farming?
This is assuming all botters act as a monolith, which they don’t. Many of these botters are independent or competing large companies and therefore, their slice of that botted gold pool might only be very small and so they very much still have a need to farm gold.
what a cop out question.
Knowing they have that much gold already, why would they buy a boost?
Riddle me that.
This statement does not disprove anything I’ve said
The simple point is, no matter how much a botter would theoretically be willing to spend on boosts, unless the boost ends up being much less than the price of a subscription (which I can almost guarantee it won’t be) then it’s a far more efficient use of that money to simply buy a new subscription than it is to buy a boost. It’s not rocket science but you seem intent on turning it into that
It’s not a cop out question. I’m putting the premise of your question into question. If they have that much gold already, then why would they need to farm more? Surely if they’ve exceeded demand, they could just stop and sell it all for a while.
No because your argument relies on the faulty premise that you could not boost AND sub since we are arguing in a vacuum where financial limitations don’t come into play. We aren’t even taking into account the risk of being banned after having levelled, making the time spent NOT farming gold wasted.
I have enough money in my account to pay for all my bills for 6 months.
Guess i should just take 6 months off work.
5head
So you admit that they still have cause to farm more beyond demand, and since I assume they value their time, they’d like to do so as efficiently as possible? Interesting.
They likely do let some accounts go inactive during lulls. Blizz is deleting a lot of it too.
I admit they would use a bot to bot till they had all the gold in the world.
Using a boost they have to pay for makes 0 sense.
It does if they want to start using new accounts.
Okay? What percent of players in TBC Classic do you think will be boosted?
Right, I haven’t seen a reasonable prediction about what harm it’ll do hence I’m not worried about it.