Advertising Boosts Cross-Realm No Longer Allowed
In addition to the Policy Update for Organized In-Game Services, Blizzard has confirmed that advertising cross-realm and advertising done by non-participating players is no longer allowed.
Advertising Boosts Cross-Realm No Longer Allowed
In addition to the Policy Update for Organized In-Game Services, Blizzard has confirmed that advertising cross-realm and advertising done by non-participating players is no longer allowed.
So basically, you can advertise. But your advertising ass better be in the raid you're recruiting for and your ads better be in the local trade channel.
Yeah, that "clarification" is pretty stupid.
If they actually enforced it, it would shut down a lot of raid recruitment advertising as well. I know I've certainly done it on characters I had no intention of raiding on.
This. If my level 60 druid wants to advertise that my guild has slots open where you can come along with my guild on these times and nights and get your AotC and I'm gonna be there doing it with my guild that's fine. If I make some level 1 character on another account to avoid possibly getting banned to do the advertising, that's not ok.
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I think it's less "you have to advertise on a character you're gonna raid on" and more "you can't advertise on level 1s on a trash account you don't care about."
The most difficult thing to do is accept that there is nothing wrong with things you don't like and accept that people can like things you don't.
It specifies "for gold" activities so unless you plan on charging people gold to join your raid I don't think it is quite the same as what they are trying to combat with this. That said, if you're making a bunch of level 1 throw away characters to spam the chats of various realms you don't actually play on, for any reason whatsoever, probably just don't do that anymore. No one likes spam, especially off-realm spam.
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Yeah that person having to ask "it's okay for me to spam advertisements on other realms for our guild sales, right?" was a bit weird, since obviously: 1, no, you aren't supposed to be spamming chats in general and 2, they literally just said you aren't allow to go to other realms to push your sales. What wasn't sinking in about that?
So if I get this correctly, no more level 1 spamming for boosts, unless they do the boost on their mains, right ?
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They are making it rather transparent that this is to force people to completely leave dead realms can't even get boosts there anymore.
So... how do the last few CE guilds on small/mediocre sized servers pay for their raid consumables now?
You know you can still do all of this outside the game through a broker? They get the clients and take a share of the gold... it's just that you can't advertise it on other realms.
Let's be real, when were these small guilds advertising on cross-realms anyway? Top guilds already have no issues getting people.
Nice! An amazing change. A fantastic change! Absolutely wonderful.
Hopefully it will actually be enforced.
I'm guessing one or more of the following will happen:
1. The CE guilds on smaller servers will effectively have a monopoly on boosting on their server, thus having a sizable amount of gold and largely controlling prices by extension.
2. Prices of consumables will go down due to a smaller amount of gold circulating on the server. Even with a smaller supply of items due to lack of people farming, prices will naturally go down due to the smaller overall gold pool.
3. They just farm the materials themselves during off-hours and fill the gaps with their gold they've hoarded over time.
4. They say "screw it" and transfer to larger servers with larger boosting markets.
In any case, I don't think it will be the end-of-the-world scenario that some people make it out to be.Basic economics are still valid in WoW.
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You seem really confused. They are not saying NO communication can occur cross realm, they are saying advertising a service for SALE cross realm is not acceptable. Are you saying you charge for people to come to your raid? If so you are not recruiting at all, you are selling.