this is not the part three to our boosting investigation that i thought i'd be making you could say this was the obvious move but it's still hard to believe that they did it in one text post the year-long plague disrupting trade chat was ended boosting communities are now against blizzard's terms of service and that happened just a few hours before they announced cross-faction instances for NUMBER_TOKENNUMBER_TOKEN that made for a hell of a monday and we'll dive into that bit later tomorrow what happened then well over the weekend leaks were going around allegedly of an update dropping this week that would outlaw boosting communities that meant that all the people in the boosting communities were on edge basically preparing for the end we were taped off on this and to be honest we got the tip but we didn't really we just weren't sure but when clivax dropped the post i mean we could hardly believe it i think for a lot of players this is going to be seen as a huge win and speaking of those look over there right where my finger is nikki zoom in on that okay that is january but it is barred month in february so you can get the bard class card you can also get this the oh man the the creature pins that the art team are making this year are just awesome and of course the art as well and that's all over on on our patreon we're doing things a bit differently this year we're weaving a little narrative between them all um so yeah get a slice of that from from our game team if you want to hop aboard and help us out and also get some real cool stuff in return then the patreon link down below is the place to go and if you're on the loot here you'll get the loot all right let's jump in so what is specifically not allowed well clivax's update prohibits organizations who offer boosting matchmaking escrow or other non-traditional services including those offered for gold now he goes on to clarify that organizations operating across multiple realms and excessively advertising non-traditional in-game sales they are violating the end user license agreement but that it doesn't restrict individuals or guilds from advertising boosts in trade chat basically they are laser targeting the boosting communities right and they've just told them to stop operating immediately or to face bans and just like that the tide turned and i think a lot of players started to feel some hope maybe thinking oh trade chat is free people can chat in trade for the first time in years every now and again someone who clearly didn't follow the news would post a nova ad and players would rally against them we finally got our trade channel back and now we're just gonna have to fight to keep it now of course there's different forms of spam a guild can still advertise their services i think what was annoying people though was the spam just saying you know nova boosting and just getting loads of that all over the place so blizzard's post was specifically a nuke on hoken nova oblivion starlight and others they've all stopped boosting effective immediately all of them are going to remain active as communities though for organized gameplay and social reasons and i think that actually is a good thing because one of the things that our boosting investigation uncovered is that a lot of people actually do enjoy playing the
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN look over there right where my finger is nikki zoom in on that okay that is january but it is barred month in february so you can get the bard class card you can also get this the oh man the the creature pins that the art team are making this year are just awesome and of course the art as well and that's all over on on our patreon we're doing things a bit differently this year we're weaving a little narrative between them all um so yeah get a slice of that from from our game team if you want to hop aboard and help us out and also get some real cool stuff in return then the patreon link down below is the place to go and if you're on the loot here you'll get the loot all right let's jump END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN