We won’t tell you anything new if we tell you that Activision Blizzard is currently going through one of the worst moments in its history due to the controversy surrounding the company over the claims of sexual harassment. In case he did not have enough, to all this he has just added a new chapter for a message published by Mike Ybarra, one of the leaders at the helm of Blizzard Entertainment.
The point is that Ybarra, in your Twitter account, promoted the sale of the Sanctuary of Domination raid in Heroic mode with his guild in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, a practice known as “raid boosting“and that much of the MMORPG community has never seen favorably.
The purpose of this activity is that the members of a guild make room for someone totally alien to them, a random player, to accompany them when entering a game raid and take all the objects and achievements that you get along the way. Of course, of course this is not free and in return Mike Ybarra’s group asks to be paid with a good sum of gold coins from the game itself.
Exactly the amount that your guild, Denial of Service, is asking for is 300,000 gold coins. To give you a better idea, in the auction house you can buy months of play in exchange for gold, where currently a 30-day token of play costs practically the same, in the same way that you can buy a month of real money with real money. game and then sell it in this place. Naturally, paying Ybarra with real money would be illegal, hence his group asks for gold from those who want to complete the Sanctuary of Domination raid without making any effort.
Thus, players who are not very skilled or are not part of a powerful guild have the option to equip yourself and unlock achievements that you wouldn’t otherwise have at your fingertips. However, as we have previously indicated, this practice is not well seen by all users because some consider that it destroys the game instead of looking for a solution that allows people to carry out these activities without paying for them.
Although it must be made clear that the raid boosting does not violate any normal of the game, there are especially few guilds that do something like this because it is a quick and easy way to earn gold coins that allow them to pay for repairs or potions to members who every week strive to overcome the toughest challenges in the game.
Nonetheless, there will always be controversy of whether it is okay to do something like this or not and especially to be promoted by the president of Blizzard himself, no matter how much he may be considered just another player.