Impressed. It's not gonna last of course because there are plenty of ways to communicate/organize, but did not expect something like this.
Impressed. It's not gonna last of course because there are plenty of ways to communicate/organize, but did not expect something like this.
Anything but fix the problems that gave rise to these things in the first place.
The other day I bought a WoW Token and blew 120k gold in a heartbeat.
No Regrets at all. 11/10 would do it again if I didn't need to.
They will just use website and email now. The problem wasn't really fixed. But at least they are trying. A big step in the right direction.
World needs more Goblin Warriors https://i.imgur.com/WKs8aJA.jpg
I'm with you -- this sets an incredibly terrible precedent. But if we're to believe the "multiple sources" in the OP, this was a result of Blizzard putting pressure on Discord due to the boosting communities flagrantly circumventing the main purpose of the boosting community ban, mainly keeping large amounts gold in escrow. The RMT-adjacent nature of massive piles of gold is too much of a temptation for most admins of these boosting communities and this puts them in direct competition with Blizzard's own monetization of the game (the WoW token).
Hopefully it won't go further than this; though I can easily see boosting communities simply moving to a different platform (Telegram maybe?) since the demand for boosting isn't going anywhere any time soon.
I read it again, and I quoted you on it specifically. You word for word said blizzard can’t do anything. Period. You even said especially if they are out of the US. What part of this sentence, that you said yourself, aren’t you understanding? Why am I having to repeat back to you the words that you said?
I'll expand on this to bolster what you say, because people seem to forget that there's a real reason that banning boosts for gold would go too far.
Back in the good ol' vanilla days, I remember I was doing world PvP in STV and was helping some lowbies survive. One whispered me for help doing some quests since I was 60 and he was not, and I happily joined his group and went around solo killing animals he needed while protecting him from PvP. After going through the chain quests, he thanks me and traded me 1 gold... told him it wasn't necessary, but he insisted. What I did back then still happens to today, and it's just fellow players helping each other out. However, that act of kindness would be against ToS if selling boosts for gold was against ToS as it technically would count as a boost.
The unfortunate reality is that boosting isn't a black-and-white issue, but the focus tends to be on the end-game boosting. However, I submit that boosting isn't the problem but rather the symptom of a problem with the game. To simplify things for the sake of brevity, if the game's activities were fun and engaging, I guarantee the amount of boosting that's perceived as negative would plummet. It wouldn't disappear completely, but it would be drastically reduced. What I'm saying is that WoW right now isn't fun and engaging (and the reasons for this are plentiful), and until that aspect of the game gets fixed Blizz is only treating a symptom. I can make the case for other aspects of WoW being a cause for negatively-perceived boosting, but this fundamental issue is at the heart of it all.
“Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.”
“It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
Fixing human nature is a little beyond Blizzard, and if they could, and did, you would be throwing an even bigger fit. I can see the headlines now "Blizzard mind controlling players to no longer want shit without putting in the effort".
Boosts are as old as time. Its not the game, its humans.
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
I already pointed out the rule. And last you checked was before or after the rule was introduced? sigh.
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I guess his point was that it's against the rules and therefore cheating. Selling cheats is against discords rules.