You mean where I stated my opinion that maybe right or wrong just like you have done?
Sorry cupcake but your opinion is no more right than mine is.
The only thing we do know is boosts are here baby.
Botters won’t use boosts for all the reasons listed above and the cost to risk per reward.
By having 5 accounts (1+4 from initial account and cost of boosting being 60/15=4) and having spent $15 for the subs your risk of being banned before profit is made on ALL accounts per $ invested is much lower than the 1 boosted account.
Bots won’t use boosts. It’s financially less profitable, more risky, and a higher cost of investment per account to use boosts, instead of having more accounts.
You are thinking of this as a consumer, not a business mentality.
Yes, there is more overhead but the bots are a business - more importantly, they are business that has a TON of competition as there are many bot services/websites and the ones that can produce the most are able to offer the lowest prices and have the stockpile to fill the most demand.
So yes, bots will be abusing the heck out of the boost button.
Additionally, any bot accounts that have botted in retail to earn wow tokens for “free access” to classic can use these same tokens to turn into battle.net currency which can be used for cash shop items… IE Boosts… “free boosts” for bots…
Additionally, as someone else mentioned, many of these illegal companies are not using completely legal practices for paying for their wow subs/services… IE - stolen credit cards or credit cards of deceased individuals.
Bots funnel the gold to “safe” accounts which do not participate in botting, they are less exposed, and less likely to be banned. So if you are using a stolen credit card and may only have a limited amount of time before the sub is shut down by the card owner (not even factoring in the lower likelihood of a Blizzard ban) then you would want to get the most for your limited time - IE: boost, make as much as you can and funnel the gold… If you lose access to that bot - no biggie, crank up another account and smack that boost button again.
Despite popular belief, bots do not run 24/7. They would be incredibly easy to track/ban that way… Many only operate a few hours a day. It would take significantly longer to reach a level where gold farming is efficient this way without boosting. So naturally they will boost.
You people who are trying to equate multiple sub costs vs boost costs are thinking of this as a consumer, a pragmatic mindset… Yes, the people who are botting for personal gain may not buy the boosts - they are attempting to be pragmatic as well. But those who are doing it for profit absolutely will - the overhead cost vs higher net income makes the cost differential a non-factor.
Even after the boost, these low risk areas are where bots are most likely to stay…
BRD generates ~200+ gold an hour right now for bots… A 58 boost gets immediate access to BRD. Bots in BRD are damn near impossible to catch because who is going to report them? They are alone in BRD. Any reports on them are purely speculation.
After TBC launches those BRD bots are going to be making MORE than 200+ gold an hour… as all the old profession materials (250-300 profession skill) will become so much more valuable… No one will want to go farm their own eternal essences anymore… Buy for inflated prices on the AH… Same with the ore/ignots, etc…
So it would slow it down by a couple of months? Good.
If you look at it from a binary position of “would botting occur” yes/no, then of course it would. If you allow for the nuances of the player experience it would help by slowing them down.
How do you know that? Boosts make bot accounts far more profitable, and you don’t think having the boost will make the botting problem worse?
why wont you link cheating forums? be a bloody snitch. we are tired of this crap.
Indeed, and I think Blizzard is counting on it…
Your ignoring long term business plans vs quick scam mentality.
The bots are here for the long haul, not the short term. Having 5 accounts that had to level is a safer investment than one boosted account and the long term benefits of the multiple accounts yield FAR more gold to be sold.
Bots will not use boosts in the way people think.
The most likely way they may use a boost is the start up cost on a new realm for boosting one account per 4 non boosted just to have a lvl 58 to help the other 4 level through instances.
Even then that’s 20% the use of boosting your trying to project bots of using. You would have us believe bots will boost accounts endlessly. The reality is they will likely only do a few boosts at the start of a new realm being added to their bot farm list and they already have the realms worth botting on on farm, so it’s unlikely they will ever even do this with the boosts.
Bots will not be using the boost in mass like you think they will.
Not they won’t. The end.
Bots will not use boosts… the risk per $ invested on an account that boosted is not worth it, especially considering the boost $ could be used to make 4 more accounts instead. Which will yield more gold farmed by week 2 than the one boosted account, and far outpace it by week 3.
The initial investment cost per risk per reward equation is what will make botters not use boosts.
Businesses don’t run off quick Sam strategies, they run off the long term benefits. And the initial investment to risk per reward does not make boosts worth it.
Because they are pulling their “information” out of their backsides based on their opinions and no actual business sense or logic being involved.
…botters will use bots in a 58 boost or not.
HOLY BACON BATMAN. ITS LIKE YOU ALL DIDNT KNOW TBC HAD BOTS IN 2006!!!
Define worse. Right now i have countless bots on every BL spawn. Swarms of them in DMT. They control upper zones herb supplies.
Maybe i just laugh at people who think boosts will make things worse when i look at the state of things now
No, you are simply projecting the cost differential into this equation. I am not ignoring it at all… I did make an example of how the boost still benefits the short-term bots but even at a long term the boosts will benefit the bots.
Sure in the grand scheme, these boosted accounts will cost a little more, but they are immediately able to access their revenue stream as opposed to waiting. They are not using consumer mentality. They are not trying to be pragmatic.
Overhead vs profit is a real thing… but an extra 60 dollars of overhead vs the 10 hours of BRD farming it takes to compensate that overhead is - as I said, a non issue… The botters will be ready to abuse the heck out of that boost button and I think Blizzard is frothing at the mouth in anticipation for this…
Even if Blizzard does ban a few, that is even more for them as the bots will immediately be replaced with a boosted counterpart.
My point exactly, botters are not here for a quick scam cash in. They are run as a business and no business will invest 5 times the initial investment just to have it outpaced by having a more diverse portfolio of accounts by week 3.
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Seriously are you all this stupid bots have been around for ages. Look at how Nvidia stopped selling GPUs from its main site…
Seriously people will use them regardless. Get over it and just know this is the world we live in.
It won’t matter 58 boost or not.
More bots.
Even more on BL spawns, even more swarms in DMT, even more control of the herb supplies. Your server may seem like it’s hopelessly crowded with bots, but it can still get worse. There plenty of servers where bots aren’t as bad, and they will get worse with boosts.
“It’s so bad it can’t get worse” is not a good argument.
And what will they do that they arent already?
You are treating symptoms. Treat the disease. You are accomplishing nothing
It won’t make it “worse” or “Better”
People will use a bot if they want to or not.
You all are just upset that 58 boost were added. You all think new current blizzard is from the 90s. I’m sorry to say but blizzard sold its soul in 2006 to Activision.
Also it’s not that bad. Seriously most MMos have a boost system now days. I hear hardly any complaints from FFXIV community. Have you all looked at it’s cash shop? And that’s mild compared to others
Sorry but you all act like blizzards giving boosters a level 70 boost with full t4.
Seriously you all wouldn’t know pay to win if it hit you in the face.
Go play other MMOs. Then you might realize that “hmmm wow micro transactions aren’t that bad after all. They just pricey”