As of today, new rules apply in World of Warcraft when it comes to boosting. We tell you what will change.
In World of Warcraft, patch 9.2.7 went live today. This should have been the last update of the “Shadowlands era”, after which the pre-patch of Dragonflight (10.0) is expected. Nevertheless, Blizzard has brought some interesting changes with patch 9.2.7. One of them concerns the controversial boosting groups, for which new rules now apply.
What is Boosting?
Boosting is when an experienced player (or players) guide other players through difficult content and earn them some hard boss kills or high ranks in PvP. The players are then “boosted” to a feat they could not achieve on their own. Although this is considered controversial, boosting in exchange for in-game currency (such as gold) is allowed in World of Warcraft.
What has been changed?
As of today, patch 9.2.7 introduces the new “Trade (Services)” chat channel, which is intended for just such boosting offers. This is accompanied by a few changes to the rules for World of Warcraft.
As of today, promoting boosting offers outside of the designated channel is no longer allowed and will be considered “spam” from now on. This means that messages can be reported with a right-click and can lead to bans if there are too many violations – either for the chat only or even for the entire account in case of repeat offenders.
Boosting has always been controversial in World of Warcraft. This is unlikely to change with the new rules.
What if you don’t want to see it?
All general chat channels and thus also “Trade (Services)” can be hidden with a right click on the chat tab and then under “Settings”. It is also possible to hide the channels with the chat command “/leave [Kanalnummer]” to leave them permanently and return only when needed.
The result should be that players are significantly less bothered by boosting offers and the trade channel is finally back to serving its original purpose – which is to celebrate pubescent word jokes and [Donnerzorn, gesegnete Klinge des Windsuchers] to link.
What is forbidden?
Meanwhile, Blizzard has issued a whole series of bans when it comes to advertising such services. They may now only be offered in the designated channel and furthermore only on the realm where you want to offer these services. Offering services across multiple realms with many secondary characters is prohibited, as is creating “group finder groups” that explicitly advertise boosts. All of these violations can be reported.
Apart from that, of course, offering and running any boosting services is still prohibited if real money is involved. Those who pay with real money for such services or demand money for them risk a hefty account suspension of several months up to the complete closure of the account in case of repeat offenders.
What do you guys think of this new rule? Good thing or totally “meh”?
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