Bellular made an interesting video regarding boosting toh
Bellular made an interesting video regarding boosting toh
I've always played wow casual other mmorpg's not so much, but 4 months into SL i met the right peeps and am now a CE Raider.
So when i was joining the initial raid team back in CN my main was a Warlock (Aff), and sub main Hunter (MM), but they needed a Mage, i volunteered. Thinking i was going to catch up with them all in a few weeks they said hell no man we'll boost you, speed of c all of a sudden i was raid ready.
We worked so f'ing hard to get Daddy D on heroic, then a member could not make it and the next week, the first raid night that week they show up and have AOTC, we be like wtf? you pug it?, well i can't even begin to explain what a crushing let down it was when they told us they paid 5 bones for it. Like ouch, very ouch.
It diminishes the entire purpose of what it represents, in that you would io someone and they have AOTC and would know how hard it was to get, the work, the time, the skill, but after that you be like how much you pay for that? But i was kinda boosted into my position on the team right.
looking out of my lonely room day after day
So...who are in these spots to sell to...?
I always hate the poor logic people use here. I half expect mmo champ posters to condone gunning people down in the street since " you can't stop people from dying eventually anyways " as a rational.
You can make it cost prohibitive for boosters to clog up trade and lfg rather easily.
So, no more direct trading, if you can't find it on the auction for the price you seek, tough luck?
If a friend wants to trade you gold cross server/faction, tough luck?
If you wanna be a nice person to tip for a service but can't, tough luck?
Changing trade is not a solution. We have no solution unless we go drastic, and remove grouping completely, else can boosting not be stopped.
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Cut out the tasteless comment.
I mean, it is already not permitted to advertise anything in the LFG channel, we just need stricter report systems or people to react to words such as 'Boost', 'WTS', 'WTT', 'Service', and the use of discord titles. Though for public channels, it is different, for they are permitted to post there, and if you remove that, then you also harm the ones who offer boosts out of goodwill (And yes, there are many of those too).
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Commonly, bots are in remote spots, really. They tend to be parked away from the World Quest areas, set on a short path. Of course, we do have examples of long path bots but they don't tend to last as long. There is no one that allows bots to not be banned, except maybe players who do not report them(?). We sadly won't get the GM's cruising the zones, fighting off the vermin, just like every other MMO doesn't have it, some do have a stricter removal act instead of doing it in waves, they do it right away. There is not a single public market MMORPG existing that does not have bot problems.
FOMO: "Fear Of Missing Out", also commonly known as people with a mental issue of managing time and activities, many expecting others to fit into their schedule so they don't miss out on things to come. If FOMO becomes a problem for you, do seek help, it can be a very unhealthy lifestyle..
Nah I'm gonna bludgeon you with this fact till it sticks in your head even if it means I gotta crack it to do so.
The boosting spam ends when blizzard hires gms to ban them within minutes of posting. The spammers won't win the attrition rate of the cost it would incur on them.
There would be a higher cost to have more people monitor the chats than the benefits of having less boosting, even as such, we already have a lot of boosting communities that people actively seek out. Further than that, hiring more GMs would just (and thankfully) clean up the LFG system, and nothing more, as they have announced that it is permitted in the public channels, for if it were to be banned, it would also harm actual honest offers of helping people. And they can't ban taking gold for a service, as that is the basic of WoW's professions. That is the fact.
FOMO: "Fear Of Missing Out", also commonly known as people with a mental issue of managing time and activities, many expecting others to fit into their schedule so they don't miss out on things to come. If FOMO becomes a problem for you, do seek help, it can be a very unhealthy lifestyle..
FOMO: "Fear Of Missing Out", also commonly known as people with a mental issue of managing time and activities, many expecting others to fit into their schedule so they don't miss out on things to come. If FOMO becomes a problem for you, do seek help, it can be a very unhealthy lifestyle..
Yes, if they were okay with RMT, shit would've been much worse and aggressive but they aren't. And if they stopped making tokens available, then RMT would be back in first place once more, and 3rd party sites would be back strong like they were before the token.
And no, the token is not RMT.
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I guess, if we hire the two aliens in Men In Black (The first one), they were a type of squid and monitored all media of the US but yeah, they aren't real, nor is the belief that 30 GMs can solve a problem that has existed since the ability to group up.
FOMO: "Fear Of Missing Out", also commonly known as people with a mental issue of managing time and activities, many expecting others to fit into their schedule so they don't miss out on things to come. If FOMO becomes a problem for you, do seek help, it can be a very unhealthy lifestyle..
It'd either be no different than live servers, or basically dead while requiring more attention, and therefore more money, than other servers.
It'd be no different because people would still boost, just not advertise in game, everything would be done over Discords and the people who want boosts know how to find them, it's kind of super easy. And as far as I've been told, on live you can use addons to hide most boosting ads, so you can already achieve this yourself more or less so why make an entire new set of servers for it?
As for it being basically dead but requiring more attention, that depends on how you define boosting and how heavily it's enforced. Do you just mean for gold boosting? In which case, see above. Blizzard has no way of confirming what is and isn't boosting 100% so it wouldn't be fair to ban people. Do you mean ANY form of boosting isn't allowed? So I can't help boost my buddy who came back after a break so we can run +15s in a couple weeks instead of months? Can I not use my super geared character to help run lower level M+, because that's boosting? And if none of this is allowed, how is this policed? A massive amount of GMs going over logs and such? That much man power for... nothing. Blizzard gets nothing out of this. And in the end, you still run into players who got boosted because Blizzard won't be able to catch everyone. And if I risk getting banned just for helping a buddy cause it looked like boosting, I'll pass. I like the idea of no gold boosting, but preventing that is a pipe dream.
So yeah, not a good idea, I understand not liking boosting but this wouldn't solve anything. Use addons to ignore ads and just remember that you will always run into bad players with good gear regardless of whether boosting is allowed or not, it sucks but that's just how this kind of game is.
One GM per server. How many servers do they have? Hell let's just assume it's 100 servers.
How much would you need to pay that GM? 40k per year? So that's 4 million Euros per year on that assumption alone just to combat something that actually makes them money.
Good luck, it will never happen.
FOMO: "Fear Of Missing Out", also commonly known as people with a mental issue of managing time and activities, many expecting others to fit into their schedule so they don't miss out on things to come. If FOMO becomes a problem for you, do seek help, it can be a very unhealthy lifestyle..
I would just take my new found friend through a dungeon and he would happen to be very grateful. If there are people who would pay for boosts, there will be people who will boost. RMT, gold, boost for boost - doesn't matter.
Not to mention supervisors, training said people, having to probably deal with a revolving door of said people, hiring costs, advertising costs. Shit some folks here think Blizz can just go HEY WE NEED PEOPLE TO MONITOR A SYSTEM FOR PEOPLE BOOSTING and a huge chunk of people would jump at the chance
That's a lot of money to enforce a single rule...hell even if they open a sweatshop like people said that is a LOT of money just to enforce a rule
Last edited by Mysterymask; 2021-09-24 at 08:14 AM.
FOMO: "Fear Of Missing Out", also commonly known as people with a mental issue of managing time and activities, many expecting others to fit into their schedule so they don't miss out on things to come. If FOMO becomes a problem for you, do seek help, it can be a very unhealthy lifestyle..