Boosting Rule Adjustments

[Yamatologic]

just add weekly double exp for one day bro.
and make it weekly basis

[Lemurcatta]

Since this is such a heated argument, I figured I'll chime in. I've heard enough said by Kestrel to trust that the decision was made in good faith, and that it will be handled well. I support it. Slow & Steady wins the race.

[Nexxen]

I do really think some of you are just overreacting.
There isn't a ban on Helping your friend with a quest or with a Elite or even running with him through a dungeon once or twice to get some items, the banned thing is strictly level boosting a low lvl char with 60 char doing some aoe.

Its the same as in Twow you also couldn't boost someone through a dungeon or in open world what is your problem people xD

[Grinder23]

Bad-faith question:

Do you actually have the resources required to enforce this consistently, or is this effectively going to become a player-driven panopticon?

I can open the /who list and immediately find an example:

(I don't know the guy, nor have i ever interacted with him, nor am i singling him out)


The problem is that, under the new rule, how is anyone supposed to tell what's actually happening? Is this player helping an alt get a mount? Doing a quest? Pulling the entire instance? Running a friend through? We can't know from a screenshot or from seeing a high-level character in a dungeon. All i know is "he's gaining an unfair advantage over me right this moment"

I wanted to level a crafting alt myself, but now I have to think twice before doing anything close to my level 60 because I don't know how it will be interpreted.

If the answer is "report it and let the staff sort it out," doesn't that just encourage players to report anything that looks suspicious and be angry at each other?

[Beckett]

Its just something of an aside, but for the early levels just grabbing the dragonslayer buff in the capital will let you blast through the early zones nearly as good as tag boosting with a 60. Pretty much any class that can use a dagger can two tap mobs in Northshire if buffed.

Again, kind of exposes the huge gray area on this. Is buffing alts with your 60 also forbidden now? You can stack thorns, ret aura with a passive pally, and other crap on an alt and they'll be blitzing through the first dozen levels just as quickly.

Then when you get to 20, you have a 30 xp locked helper for them that isn't too far gapped. Then at 40, another one to pass the baton
Trust me, people are going to find a way around this and your trigger happy GMs are going to ban innocents.

[Igzee]

Are you saying we should ban people hanging Onyxia head while non-60 are in SW ?

[Beckett]

Are you saying we should ban people hanging Onyxia head while non-60 are in SW ?

Yep, that seems to be the implication. You're broadcasting an advantage for hundreds of lowbies

[69solidesz]

Why do whiners always gotta ruin it for everyone?
I like endgame content, I hate leveling.
I have leveled enough characters these past 22 years, I do not need to do it again if I don't want to.
Worst part is, if I want to level one without boosting it with my main, I will do so.
Why can't we just let people enjoy the game like they want to?
It's not complicated to ban RMT related boosting, if IP adresses are the same for the booster and the boostee, guess what, it's probably the same person.

Please revert this idiotic limitation. Even with boosting, it is already very long to level a character to 60, there is absolutely no need to make it worse.

[Xiv96]

”The customer isn’t always right”
”Don’t like it? Leave”

This is not a great way to conduct yourself in front of actual customers, a real bad look.

I understand that people can be annoying and inflammatory at times but if your job requires you to deal with that type of behavior it’s expected of you to keep a cool head once conflicts arise.

The reason small, medium and huge companies employ ”the customer is always right” is because it’s true at the end of the day and by having people in leadership positions regularly dismiss people of any opinion with snide remarks like those outlined above displays tendencies that everyone regardless of opinion of the matter at hand will find off-putting.

I disagree with the rule itself, punishing legitimate players in lieu of catching the bad guys is a worse route to go than spending resources battling them using other tactics and we should count ourselves lucky that more impactful matters and legislations aren’t based on the same reasons.

That said, I find the conduct of the staff to be by far the biggest transgression here, as it shows a general disrespect towards the playerbase that just happen to disagree with the decisions made by the leadership, it sets a bad precedent, today it’s the pro dualboxers that get dismissed, tomorrow it’s someone else, and inevitably the recession of the server in terms of growth.


Do better, OctoWoW.