This week’s Mythic+ score report for World of Warcraft’s Midnight (12.0) expansion should be a wake-up call for Blizzard’s Taiwan operations, except nobody there seems to be awake. According to a recap posted on the WOW board on PTT, Taiwan’s 1% cutoff has climbed faster than any other server in the world this season, with the stable line projected around 4100 — meaning players may need something like a +22 keystone just to feel safe about the mount. That spike isn’t organic competition. It’s the direct result of carry teams exploiting a duplicable keystone mechanic, turning one key into four and mass-producing paid runs. But the real scandal isn’t the exploit itself. It’s that Blizzard’s Taiwan branch has done nothing about it, while the problem plays out in plain sight.
Players in the community have pointed out that this isn’t some hidden black-market operation you need connections to find. Boosting and score-selling services are advertised openly in public in-game channels — sellers shout out prices for carries, keys, and guaranteed score right where every player in the zone can read them. This isn’t a whisper-network. It’s storefront advertising happening inside Blizzard’s own game client, and the local branch has let it run unchecked for what the community describes as an extended period, without so much as a warning banner.
Worse, players who actually try to do the right thing and report offenders are met with silence. Commenters on the thread describe a reporting process that’s already needlessly clunky — having to right-click portraits one at a time in Raiderio or in-game — and even after going through that effort, nothing happens. Suspicious accounts stay up, keep selling, keep flooding the leaderboard. Meanwhile, other regions are said to enforce far more aggressively against boosting studios, while Taiwan’s operator reportedly lets sellers log in and advertise as if there were no rules at all. If Blizzard Taiwan’s customer service team is receiving these reports and taking no visible action, that’s not an oversight — that’s a policy failure, and it’s the community, not Blizzard, that ends up doing unpaid moderation work with none of the tools or authority to actually fix anything.
A mount tied to the top 1% is supposed to mean something — proof that a player genuinely outperformed almost the entire realm. Instead, thanks to Blizzard Taiwan’s silence, it’s become something you can openly buy in trade chat, no different from a vendor item. If the local branch won’t act on reports, won’t police RMT advertising happening in broad daylight in its own channels, and won’t close the keystone duplication loophole that’s fueling all of this, then it’s fair to ask what exactly Blizzard’s Taiwan operation is actually doing to protect the integrity of its own leaderboard. Enough with the silence — enforce your own terms of service, act on the reports players are already filing, and stop letting your game become a marketplace for the exact behavior your rules claim to ban.