For a few hours now, players in World of Warcraft have their trade channel back after Blizzard banned the spam from cross-realm boosting communities. Some can hardly believe their luck – thanks to the boosting change.
The era of negative news surrounding World of Warcraft seems to be over for now. After a rumor was confirmed last night, boosting communities in World of Warcraft were banned with a new regulation. This had a rather interesting effect almost immediately:
The trade channels in World of Warcraft are readable again, the spam has come to an end.
For years, boosters spammed the trade channels
What was the state before? Depending on the size of the realm, the trade chat in World of Warcraft has been many things over the years, but not a real place for trading. Especially, boosting communities offered their services here, such as dungeon or raid carries. Since these groups operated cross-server, they had secondary characters on numerous realms, advertising their offers at intervals of a few seconds.
The chat was a flood of messages, actual trade was impossible.
What has changed now? Almost “overnight,” the massive advertising of boosting offers has been banned, particularly on foreign realms. This has resulted in the trade channel on numerous realms being used again for its original purpose – trading or simply conversing in a chat spanning several cities.
This is how the community reacts: Overall, the change is well received by many players – no matter how they felt about boosting. The fact that the trade chat is readable again brings a lot of enthusiasm, as numerous players share in the Subreddit of World of Warcraft.
A screenshot from user PUSCIFER shows the astonished and happy players on his realm who can suddenly write to each other again. It received impressive 2,500 upvotes, along with numerous comments.
Especially nice is this little clip, which essentially shows a “before-and-after comparison” of how the trade chat looks on the EU realm Kazzak.
On the left, you can clearly see how the messages of boosting offers rush through the chat, and on the right, you see actual players chatting after the change.
Clearly amused, reikschield writes about the topic:
Okay, guys! Now it’s time to get back to politics discussions and anime spoilers. Let’s go, hypeeeee!
Somewhat more seriously, Malarkeycreator states:
This is actually so nice. I didn’t think it would matter to me this much, but this is a huge improvement in quality of life. I don’t even write [in the trade channel], but it’s just nice not to see spam anymore.
However, the change hasn’t only brought positives, as PUSCIFER later corrects. He writes:
Update: Now the channel is getting spammed with anal jokes.
But that only garners reactions like: “Just as the Lord intended.”
Some things in World of Warcraft never change – even if something changes.
How have you experienced this on your realm? Has the trade chat improved significantly there too? Or has everything remained the same for you?
