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Jan 31 2022 12:15pm
https://www.wowhead.com/news/boosting-communities-now-prohibited-in-world-of-warcraft-325819

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As the conditions change by which various entities operate in World of Warcraft, we are compelled to update our policies to further our goal of making the gameplay experience as fair and welcoming as possible. Since we last updated our policies, we have found that an increasing disturbance of the gameplay experience has been caused by organizations excessively advertising various non-traditional services in-game.

As of today, we will now prohibit organizations who offer boosting, matchmaking, escrow, or other non-traditional services, including those offered for gold. World of Warcraft accounts found to be in violation of this policy are subject to account actions. These actions can include warnings, account suspensions and, if necessary, permanent closure of the disruptive World of Warcraft account(s). Organizations operating across multiple realms and excessively advertising non-traditional in-game sales are contrary to the terms and conditions of the Blizzard End-User License Agreement (EULA).

This policy update does not restrict individuals or guilds from using the provided in-game tools (“trade channel” chat) to buy or sell in-game items or activities for in-game currency. However, “boosting communities”, especially those who operate across multiple realms, are no longer permitted.

We urge all such organizations to cease doing business in World of Warcraft immediately, in order to maintain uninterrupted access to the game.
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Jan 31 2022 01:03pm
A bit late they change this stance.
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Jan 31 2022 01:33pm
Quote (Atiesh @ Jan 31 2022 02:03pm)
A bit late they change this stance.


Ya just a decade or so
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Jan 31 2022 01:35pm
Wasn't the new CEO boosting people in M+ recently and it caused a major backlash?

I bet if that hadn't happened, this stance wouldn't have changed today.

Edit: Some more information on the subject: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/ty-blizz-for-the-policy-update/1176879/12

This post was edited by Atiesh on Jan 31 2022 01:52pm
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Jan 31 2022 05:18pm
interesting
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Jan 31 2022 06:28pm
Bad idea as many people won't level alts naturally, this'll just make the megaservers bigger
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Feb 1 2022 07:44am
Quote (Atiesh @ Jan 31 2022 02:03pm)
A bit late they change this stance.


the thing is that these boosting services have become highly organized multi million dollar organizations. They got so big and profitable they attracted blizzards attention.
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Quote (Subtle @ Jan 31 2022 07:28pm)
Bad idea as many people won't level alts naturally, this'll just make the megaservers bigger


You can still be boosted in game, just can't use those orgs anymore, you need to do it from guilds and individuals in the game.
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You can still be boosted in game, just can't use those orgs anymore, you need to do it from guilds and individuals in the game.


This is probably going to be abused into oblivion, especially since a lot of the top pvpers just boost on alts anyway.
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Feb 1 2022 11:47am
Quote (Atiesh @ Feb 1 2022 10:43am)
This is probably going to be abused into oblivion, especially since a lot of the top pvpers just boost on alts anyway.


They are just banning the hugely organized boosting discord communities and sites that are funneling gold into sites that sell WoW gold for legitimately 10's of million of dollars. and yeah people will still try hard to get around it
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