With boosting, you can earn a lot of gold in World of Warcraft. However, at the beginning of 2022, there were rule changes from developer Blizzard that were supposed to restrict “professional” boosting. After an initial decline, everything went back to how it was before the change, and now someone has taken matters into their own hands. It certainly wasn’t Blizzard.
In World of Warcraft boosting, you let other players guide you through content to complete it faster. There are entire communities in WoW that specialize in boosting.
They charge gold for their services and in the past were able to earn quite a lot. However, at the beginning of 2022, (theoretically) large-scale boosting activities were over. Developer Blizzard changed the rules and prohibited boosting.
However, boosting was not completely banned. If you want to offer boosting services on your server, you may still do so in the trade channel. It is important that you participate in the boosting run yourself.
Large boosting communities, however, offer their services on many WoW servers. The players posting the boosting offers in the channel are, however, rarely or not at all participating in the boosting runs. Or the whole thing is organized directly outside of WoW – for example, on Discord.
After the rule change, a decline in boosting was observed, but after a while, everything returned to its usual course – as if the new rules didn’t exist.
Apparently, someone didn’t want to accept that. According to consistent player reports, Discord servers and Discord accounts that were associated with boosting communities were banned.
However, this only affected EU communities. The biggest names that lost their Discord server:
- Twilight
- Nova
- Dawn
- Oblivion
- Sylvanas
As a reason for the ban, Discord stated: “Your account participated in the sale, promotion, or distribution of cheats, hacks, or compromised accounts” (via wowhead.com).
However, only bans occurred on Discord – some servers and accounts of the server admins. The WoW accounts of the affected players remain active. In addition, there were no Discord bans among US communities.
This leads to the assumption that developer Blizzard had nothing to do with the bans on Discord. The attack on the boosting community apparently came from somewhere else. At the moment, it is completely unclear what led to the bans.
What do you think, how did the curious bans occur? Is there perhaps a single person behind it, or has a larger group come together to draw Discord’s attention to the boosting servers?
Do you find the ban even justified? In a survey on MeinMMO, we found that some readers have no issues with boosting itself.
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