Thats because there literally wherent as much to be boosted in.
People asked for boosts mostly for the newest raid back then - and that was once a week. These days we sometimes boost the same people in m+ sev
eral times a week.
And yes - most non casual guilds back then boosted between raids for consumable gold.
GDKP runs where extremely popular.
and its not tied to token AT ALL...
why would you buy token, get gold in retail exchange it to gold (with other player mind you) in classic and buy boost in classic when you can literaly buy boost or gold in classic... you can literaly skip few steps (and most likely save some money/gold)...
even if you straight up pay gold in retail and get boost in classic, thats hardly dependable on token, since wod people could earn SHITTON of gold via phone app...
I guess there are enough people who aren't bad per se, but don't have or want a guild so they use boosts as stepping stone into pugs. And "bad players" will prolly get removed if they fail enough anyways, it doesn't matter if they bought a boost or got carried by their guild lol.
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who was surprised that retards who "see no problems" in boosting in this topic are boosters themselves
Time is money - you learn to live with it or you move on altogether. Only way boosting stops is when they put cosmetics and BiS gear sets in the shop.
If you knew the candle was fire then the meal was cooked a long time ago.
1) You literally base everything on the assumption that most people are like you. Not true.
Look at the amount of pug runs daily on the LFG. Those are the majority that don't care. The people that actually play the game, unlike you.
And then we ain't even talking about private guild/community runs yet.
They outweigh boosters heavily.
2) 'Extra effort' has been in the game since at least Gearscore in WotLK. Don't try these boomer arguments on me, thank you.
It's not an 'issue' that people use a more in-dept method to determine actual skill than linking your useless achievement.
3) There are not more people with 'credentials'. Maybe you think linking an achievement is all that's needed but as you don't actually play the game you have no idea.
4) No, it does not impact you in any way shape or form. Prove otherwise by actual in-game examples not by your feelings.
What were you not allowed to do because someone else bought a boost?
5) Yes, silly for you. It ain't meant anything for a decade now and you know it with that 10 year tag under your name.
6) If a 2,4k group boosts me to 2k then I didn't defeat 2k players. My 2,4k team mates did. The moment I enter 2K rating games without them I am a useless piece of trash.
7) Shallow. You are arguing a technicality when you should (again) be aware that having X achievement does not mean shit by itself with your 10 year badge experience.
You are literally arguing for the sake of arguing. I refuse to believe that you were in a coma for the past 10 years and now you suddenly woke up and just noticed how things work.
Mmoc...
Before token- buying gold and boosting... *crickets*
After token- buying gold (through a 100% safe source) and boosting... "reeeeeeeeeeeeee"
Gold sellers/advertising? Probably vanilla, if not then definitely TBC which is when I started playing.
Boost runs? Same as above with the Zul Aman bear being the defining event.
Nothing new to either one of those screenshots.
also the boosting growth is a result of how player power has spiked over the expansions,making people more easily boost and therefore making it more profitable,in wod my guild was boosting for gold in hellfire 20 people as a 10 man group in heroic,i think we even did 8 a few times
No, i didn't.
I said "a lot of people", i never made any claims whether that's the majority or not.
That "literally" in your post is just straight BS.
That's just stupid, some people pug and can be bothered by that, some people raid in a guild and are bothered by that.
How does "playing the game" somehow exclude you from seeing something as an issue?
When i not only have to check someone's gear, their achievements, their M+ score and on top of that their logs, i think it's crossing a line somewhere.
Person X doesn't have the skill for a heroic boss
Buys boost.
Person X has now the achievement from the boss
The size of people with the achievement has grown by the amount of X that exists.
"Feelings" is what makes me enjoy a game or not.
If you fail to see why people that have not earned a reward by playing but by paying diminishes the value of an achievement and thus the investment of people that earned it legitimately, then you are just damn ignorant of human nature.
It did and i know that because 10 years ago things such as logs weren't nearly as common as they are now, people actually having the achievement was the stuff you just had to go by.
Doesn't change the fact that you effectively paid others in order to win the game for you, which diminishes the enjoyment of others as they are not fighting against equal opponents.
It's not like those people will ever run into you in a dark alley, beat you up and take back their rating they lost due to that.
Mate, you just put fingers into your ear and go "LALALALA ITS ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY!!".
It's not about waking up, it's about criticizing the explosion of boosting that has happened since the introduction of the WoW token and its negative implications.
There was no 'explosion' of boosting. There are more legal boosting now. That's the only thing that changed.
Your arguments are null and void because you just keep saying different words for "booohoooo I don't like it" like your eventual Sylvanas LFR achievement will be worth anything anyway.
in vanila gold and items (twink items were expensive as fuck) were more prominent, boosting wasnt as much bcs there was only raids, and you could only do them once a week as a booster
in TBC raids, arenas and even HC dungs were boosted, and since then pretty much everything that could be boosted through was sold, while gold (even after token) and items were still being sold
yet somehow, it seems like some people didnt notice it until now, and seem to be unable to see it was hapening before token, even thogh we, people who played back then literaly said them so... almost like they are not interested in truth but only in confirmation of their faulty opinion...
I'd love to see any evidence that actually showcases that before the WoW Token, virtually all of that boosting was just happening behind the scenes.
Other than "trust me, bro, i am a booster", obviously.
Which frankly, doesn't make a lot of sense on the nature that likely a lot of people were deterred from it because it involved RMT and thus the threat of losing your account / personal data / etc..
Simply because you are unable to understand common sense, doesn't mean it's null and void.