Whether or not Blizzard allows it, it will continue to happen.
sweet so now if you buy a boost your subject to get banned and blizzard terminate your account, heck why not ban people who buy large sums of items on the AH next too, that could be evidence that people bout gold from illicit sites too.
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There's really no reason not to let them. I mean classic wow is the way it is because you can generally play it anyway you want. You want a 100% dodge build, you can probably do it in classic, absurd haste, whack build? Shaman tank? Can mostly play however and clear content. If people want to bust out all that in a few days and have nothing to do for months again for the 4th time AND pay someone, just let them. If people want to sit in Org to advertise dungeon boosts for the 4th time for an in-game currency that doesn't really do anything? let them. I don't really see how it's any different than a HOF guild selling a raid run for gold in fact it's probably less intrusive because theres far less power and "prestige" to be gained in classic boosting.If it's truly about botting and RMT management I think most of the community is backing them on this, but perhaps a different avenue is needed. Like some sort of AI movement tracking. Because I guarantee if you mapped keystrokes and patterns of those solo farming it would become glaringly obvious which ones aren't human. I can watch them for 20 seconds in the open world and know most times.
With the years passing bots , RMT and any sort of sales decreased substantially as before they were advertised not only in global chat , but in every LFG section and nowdays its rather clean. Still , if we want increase of player skill and overall enjoyment of the game , all sort of boosts must be taken down not only in Classic but in Retail aswell. Blizzard want people to play more , because the more they play - the more they pay monthly subs , thats why they increase gearing tracks and extra raids divided by weeks and if they wanna keep players playing , simply ban boosts for gear so these people are forced to play the game as everyone else , not getting VIP runs and getting all the gear they need in 1 week rather than months of RNG as the common player.
Microsoft's Blizzard makes us long for the days of the awful Activision Blizzard.TBC Anniversary has proven that they aren't even capable of executing Classic content despite it being a re-re-release.Classic+ will fail.
In order to avoid botting gotta make a more active approach. In order to remove gold selling. Add token and people can sell and buy it legally.Making changes to the base game ruins certain aspects of the game for legit players. I used to farm loads of gold in 2020 tbc before nerf. And having people join in the runs for free or low cost. But got a warning because i undercut boost organisations thereby report spammed as i was ruining their business... i still got the same gold wether i ran alone or helped others. Which made people socialize. Now i cant. Not worth their time. Nor mine.
Dungeon farming should absolutely be allowed.I suggest following rules to deal with boosting (assuming you can't freeze your level) :1) If a mob is grey to any player in the group, it should grant no experience to anyone.2) If a max-level player is in the group, mobs should grant no experience to anyone.You could tweak rule nr. 2 to allow exp for players at max-level minus one.
Easy way to win - make gold irrelevant and let players play however they want.For the context of classic+, who said its going to look anything like vanilla? All those "known" gold farms might simply not exist, as in the place or the mob is gone or moved. Nobody knows what classic+ will look like so why worry about how to cheese it?
Better yet ban boosting from all versions of WoW.
botting i care, boosting i dont.although to be honest i never saw a ton of either happening. at most ive seen one or two mages advertising for a boost, usually stocks or mara, and if you just dont engage with the system you rarely even see them. i think i've seen half a dozen real bots total in 20 years.
"...it must be acknowledged that dungeon boosting has been a staple of the game since the early days of original Vanilla."Citation needed on that. Boosting, especially as it is done today was not a staple. It existed sure but it was not a common thing.Let's not conflate friends or guildies boosting a lowbie or an alt through some dungeons with all but automated third party services costing enough gold to cover a five man groups epic riding costs.
Rather it be boosting with mages or boosting in general through services i.e. lvl 58 or 60 instant boost for $.I would rather it have the normal classic experience of mages warriors and paladins decimating the dungeons with their skills through their accomplishments with their gear farming.If anything needs to be changed, it would be the experience scaling when your 30+ levels over the part members when killing an enemy if they want to nerf or tune down the boosting services in classic +. that would fix things instead of lowering the loot or nerfing Blizzard slows like they did in this current iteration of Anniversary. Gold farming will consist overall That wont stop.
Hard no on both ingame and cash shop boosts. In a permanent Classic+ version of the game, there's no need to rush if the game is still there years later.
Should they "allow" boosting? They currently SELL a boost
Try to make leveling faster than it is.I don't know anybody in my guild or friend list that likes to spend hours and hours in a leveling process...Especially when you want to try several classes, you are stuck in this %^&* leveling. not fun.
Ah yes, disable organic boosting within the world. Instead, make 'em pay for $50 boost boys! Increase shareholder value!
So I played the majority of the vanilla portion of anniversary servers with the sole intention to prep for tbc and get alts established. Once I was situated with gold from crafting, I used the gold I had made to pay mages for dungeon boosting on my alts which I think is totally fair, legit gold for a legit service. I understand these could be linked to RMT but there are probably more cases where they aren’t. Taking away options for players to make gold (legit boosters) and for people who farm gold faster than they can level just feels bad.
