Possible solution for the boosting pandemic.

[MORGATH99]

hey boosting got me to my long boy in 3 weeks back in BFA so i think boosting is not as bad as ppl think , and theres addons to manage chat spam and the like

[Deadite]

hey boosting got me to my long boy in 3 weeks back in BFA so i think boosting is not as bad as ppl think , and theres addons to manage chat spam and the like

Well it doesn't really matter what people think. Blizzard said it is fine if you are boosting for gold. The separate tab does seem like a good idea tho. Easy to implement.

[Empower]

If this didn’t work on gold sellers from classic -Wod why do you think it would work now with boosters?

It isn't a magic 100% silver bullet solution to the situation. It still is far more effective then doing absolutely nothing about.

[Cthulhu 2020]

Blizzard makes tons of money off boosting. They're not going to do anything about it. In fact they may facilitate it and make it easier for the boosters. Normalizing and legitimizing boosting will just be another nail in the coffin, along side all the other shit wrong with the game like WoW token.

[FelPlague]

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.

Tsarez legit dont even bother, i pointed out to them that there is ATLEAST 500 servers, and that even if you had people work 8 hour work days you would need 3 people for a full 24 hour period, leading to about 5 people for a full week (cause people work 5/7 days a week)

meaning you would need about 2500 people.

but they came back with "you would only need to moderate like 15 servers, and you can just pay then 6$ an hour. problem solved"

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Or just give us an option to ignore messages/groups with certain keywords. Easiest fix in my opinion. No need to spend millions and hire people to review chats.
Let boosters have to play a game of taboo to reach people that don't want to see boosting services.

you can, there is multiple addons to do exactly that.
but blizzard wont do it themselves cause if you block
WTS

suddenly
"Firenewts Raid group!" is blocked.

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It isn't a magic 100% silver bullet solution to the situation. It still is far more effective then doing absolutely nothing about.

except boosting is never, and has never been against the rules, so get crunked.

[TheRevenantHero]

Tsarez legit dont even bother, i pointed out to them that there is ATLEAST 500 servers, and that even if you had people work 8 hour work days you would need 3 people for a full 24 hour period, leading to about 5 people for a full week (cause people work 5/7 days a week)

meaning you would need about 2500 people.

but they came back with "you would only need to moderate like 15 servers, and you can just pay then 6$ an hour. problem solved"

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you can, there is multiple addons to do exactly that.
but blizzard wont do it themselves cause if you block
WTS

suddenly
"Firenewts Raid group!" is blocked.

Because you wouldn't need a GM for every single server. Have a few floating GMs for low-pop server then have other GMs dedicated to high-pop servers like Illidan. Mentioning how many servers there are and acting like they ALL need a GM to monitor them is asinine.

[FelPlague]

Blizzard makes tons of money off boosting. They're not going to do anything about it. In fact they may facilitate it and make it easier for the boosters. Normalizing and legitimizing boosting will just be another nail in the coffin, along side all the other shit wrong with the game like WoW token.

vanilla 2004 called, they want the credit for that.
boosting has been normal and legit since 2004, my guild sold rag kills for people to try and get their eye of ragnaros.

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Because you wouldn't need a GM for every single server. Have a few floating GMs for low-pop server then have other GMs dedicated to high-pop servers like Illidan. Mentioning how many servers there are and acting like they ALL need a GM to monitor them is asinine.

thats why i gave the 500 number.

cause there is 500 retail NA servers. so i just gave that number, with all of EU, china, Wow classic NA/EU/China and Wow classic legacy NA/EU/China acting as the "Smaller servers can have multiple"

[TheRevenantHero]

vanilla 2004 called, they want the credit for that.
boosting has been normal and legit since 2004, my guild sold rag kills for people to try and get their eye of ragnaros.

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thats why i gave the 500 number.

cause there is 500 retail NA servers. so i just gave that number, with all of EU, china, Wow classic NA/EU/China and Wow classic legacy NA/EU/China acting as the "Smaller servers can have multiple"

There is NOT 500 NA servers. There is 241. Then there are 263 other servers for all other countries total. So when you combine that number, you get get 504 servers overall server for WoW. But the majority of them are low-pop.

[froschhure]

they just need a channel for boost ads, an official one, so trade can be for nonboost

[Lorgar Aurelian]

It isn't a magic 100% silver bullet solution to the situation. It still is far more effective then doing absolutely nothing about.

Being more effective really doesn’t mean any thing when it’s still next to nothing like it was with gold sellers.

[Drusin]

To OP, no legit boosting is fine.

Terrible idea.

All they need to do is start Battle.net account banning people that advertise in the wrong channels from using chat. Maybe even any merged account on a battle.net.

How would this solve anything? People will just make new BNet accounts same as making a new wow account.

[ohwell]

I would say all current servers become non-boost servers, if you are interested in boosting or being boosted you get a free transfer to a boosting server, once on a boosting server you can not go back to a non boosting server. The non boosters would do a great job of policing the servers and discord. I do like the idea of a GMs on servers giving out bans too.

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Blizzard will not do this. They make too much money off of the boosting community

You give too much credit for their revenue from subs at this point. Subs are a much smaller part of their income.

[Mysterymask]

To OP, no legit boosting is fine.



How would this solve anything? People will just make new BNet accounts same as making a new wow account.

Kinda gave up trying to argue...I mean we got folks advocating for sweatshops for the sake of keeping botters at bay and probably a few people advocating putting a spyware microphone on our authenticator apps just to ban anyone mentioning the word "Boost"

[Empower]

Being more effective really doesn’t mean any thing when it’s still next to nothing like it was with gold sellers.

Are we now pardoning rapists because people murder? Don't pardon evil with evil.

[FelPlague]

There is NOT 500 NA servers. There is 241. Then there are 263 other servers for all other countries total. So when you combine that number, you get get 504 servers overall server for WoW. But the majority of them are low-pop.

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/game/status/us
i got a total of 733, idk how you got 504.
especially as these dont include the chinese servers.

[TheRevenantHero]

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/game/status/us
i got a total of 733, idk how you got 504.
especially as these dont include the chinese servers.

I had read an article that I can't find anymore in my allergy med induced delirium but I will say I stand corrected.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Are we now pardoning rapists because people murder? Don't pardon evil with evil.

you know it would be more like giving rapist community service right? We already know doing so doesn't work so doing the same thing again is pointless.

[Mysterymask]

you know it would be more like giving rapist community service right? We already know doing so doesn't work so doing the same thing again is pointless.

oh which HILARIOUSLY we do

[Dejiko]

I think they shot themselves in the foot by introducing the token.
Surely it must be alot easier to just outright ban someone advertising gold buying websites as opposed to someone
advertising boosting.

[Nalam the Venom]

Let me start this by saying I hate boosting. Boosting will not be going away, with the token its too big of a cash cow for blizzards to give up. What would you think if blizzard set aside servers that made boosting on them an insta ban. They already have servers that cater to specific play styles, pvp and pve servers (classic only), RP servers, why not have boosting servers. The boost / non boost servers would not be able to interact with eachother.

Make any and all gear of all ilevels achievable and acquirable through Solo means.

There fixed boosting for you.

Players only like boosting beceause it's a quick and easy way to high gear.

Just add another quick and easy way and people will drop boosting.