This, uh.... is an interesting development...
I suppose there is little to no good in account boosting? But I don't find fault in power-leveling in grindfest Korean MMO... Maybe it is time for those kind of games to go extinct.
Yes. People who are boosted often believe they are stuck in mmr hell where their teammates are to blame for their inability to ascend to greatness. Dunning-Kruger effect, basically.
Or at the very least, some think that by playing with pros will make them git gud sooner, which is a much more noble cause.
I would say they usually play in ranked. As Noob said it's a 'my teammates are just holding me back' attitude, at least in the case of highly competitive ranked games.
back when i was really in to league of legends, there were some pretty incredible examples of people boosting up to max rank and trying to use that as clout to become streamers, only to stream themselves playing ranked while getting called an obvious booster, dying constantly and generally playing like shit.
made for excellent entertainment to watch them undo $1000+ worth of boosting while blaming it on their shitty team who were invariably outperforming them every game.
Take that, boosted animals!!!
To add to this, it is actually rather harmful to the competitive pool, as not only the boosted flops all the way down and ruining majority of their games, the process of boosting also ruins a lot of lower tier games, with smurfs and scripters carrying entire teams and creating generally uneven match-ups.
Like most things, I don't think outright banning and criminalizing it is the end-all solution. Some people need to be told that it is okay to admit sucking at a game.
If it was any other country, I'd question why it was necessary - but given that video games are basically South Korea's national sport, I'm not shocked that the government stepped in.
The government don't give a single shit about people being boosted.
The reason it's becoming a criminal offense is due to their laws requiring all accounts to be tied to someones social id number (or whatever it's called), so allowing someone else to use your account to boost you is effectively identity fraud/theft.
Actually this is about boosting services for the most part.
Seems like this article doesn't explain it well.
I don't think they really care about boosting them self, keyword in that law is it being a paid service.
I could never understand the whole "paid boosting" thing, I had a mate that actually did it as part of one of those services and while he didn't exactly make much I could not fathom why someone would be willing to pay him money to get completely shit on by high rank players in CS:GO
Counter strike ain't exactly the kind of game where someone whos bad will still be relevant at high ranks.
Best part was he wallhacked to make it easier to boost accounts so of course they would all get banned a month or so after being boosted by him, you'd have to be an idiot to expect anything less given how long it takes to boost to the proper high ranks
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