You know the solution? Leave /1 and /2. There's nothing useful there anyway. So then you never see those evil people that annoy you so much. And then you can go back to enjoying your game. You do enjoy playing, right?
You know the solution? Leave /1 and /2. There's nothing useful there anyway. So then you never see those evil people that annoy you so much. And then you can go back to enjoying your game. You do enjoy playing, right?
There's no real solution. Boosting existed before WoW tokens even through legitimate means, it was only made easier with the token. Advocate for better content and less "seasonal" gameplay so players will stop buying their way out of misery.
I really want an explanation from someone on why boosting is bad for you as a player when you don't interact with it yourself in any way.
You are stretching and also projecting your opinion onto new players. For all you know, new players don't care about that stuff as the majority does not. You make a major assumption that new players will automatically look at it like you do.
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Federal minimum wage is well above that and in California it is 15/hr. Your math is very bad.
There is no solution. So long as there's content that one person can't do, another person will always be there to sell it to them.
"stop puting you idiotic liberal words into my mouth"
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You mean the advertising? Blizzard would stop it if they thought it was in their interests to stop it. If they really wanted to clam down on it, all they'd have to do is start issuing many more bans for the folks doing so in the group-finder - it wouldn't take long for the word to spread through the boosting communities themselves.
Blizzard have seemingly never been serious about stopping the spam. Probably weighed up the cost/return & said "nah sod it."
And you're entitled to such an opinion. But try to remember it is just a personal opinion and that others are entitled to the opposite.
I think that's a bit of a lazy assumption. Now I am not going to pretend that Blizzard make no money from the trading of tokens as a result of boosting, but I do think it's a lot less than you are suggesting. I also don't believe that this money was ever a strong driver in their decision to allow boosting for gold.
Blizzard are 100% ok with boosting for gold because there is, objectively, nothing wrong with the practice and this was equally true before the introduction of tokens and would remain the case if tokens were removed from the game.
I think it's an utterly daft idea to be honest. Unless you can point to why boosting is objectively objectionable, then I would suggest not trying to enforce your personal code of values on other players. As long as what they are doing is within the rules and not resulting in actual harm to other players, it remains their business, not yours.
You can't take what ya can't see... *rolls d20* You rolled a natural 20* The skill of stealth is successful.
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There really is no way to get rid of boosting.
At this point, its just better to give them their own little chat or LFG tab where they can spam their shit while cracking down hard on anything outside of it.
Formerly known as Arafal
As long as you can chat, group up, and trade then there will always be a market for boosting. You cant remove it by simply banning people when they are using in game methods of payment.
I do think they should be muted for spamming. Tradechat on Malganis has been a eyesore. They could implement a better slow mode that mutes or blocks messages that are nearly identical within the past 5 or 10 minutes. But i guess that wouldnt work for legit item sellers.
Hmm... Maybe a better option. A boosting only channel could be a viable option then have tradechat auto block the message those that have wts/carry/boost/boosting/mythic+|plus/etc within the message then refer them to the boosting channel. As time goes on, they can just add the loophole words to the filter list. This might be the best option. Idk. Would like some input on this particular suggestion.
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I don’t mind people boosting but what I do mind is when people boost using $$$ which is pretty much legal nowadays with wow token.