The outcry about boosting is a Red Herring

I agree with you I don't see the big issue here as it let people play the way they want, I personally like leveling up my weapons in a normal match, but I am a terrible pilot so I would like to level up my helicopters and jets in portal so I could get the unlocks for those without having to take away from a team online where I would just crash or get shot down by someone better then me.

I have a lot of time to play after I get home from work, but I wouldn't mind letting those that don't have much time to game have a chance at catching up on attachments if they choose to do it through portal.

As you mentioned having unlocked everything doesn't make you better at the game and you can easily kill people with the default weapon/attachments if you know what you're doing.

I understand the part where it fill up their servers with bot farming lobbies is a problem, but why not let those that want to go through farming that way host locally and still level up their stuff if they choose to. That would solve the limited servers we can host online wouldn't it? And it would let those creative people host their custom modes online without worrying about bot farms filling up the server list.

Then why are you wanting to boost in portal if it doesn't give you better equipment to use against others? 

I have 2 boosting outcries, and they are related to EA's actions.

1. EA STILL has not revoked approval of those farms. Those farms still get full XP, mastery, unlocks, and are 1-person start. What EA has done is make every other server, which are almost always more legitimate (how could you make anything "worse"?!?) and almost always an actual game that has a purpose, not attractive to anyone; because the newer servers, which took more time and effort to make, and are usually not farms, have no XP or are much harder to 'start' (populate due to min player requirements). EA has done the exact opposite of promoting the experiences it pretends to promote.
2. Because EA has effectively encouraged people to use portal for no reason other than boosting, it also ends up making portal's performance suck. Why? Because those boosting servers are terrible for network load. They waste an entire server of 64 slots on only one actual human player. Since each human has their own server with no other humans in it, every human who boosts will waste a TON of resources.  If you made legitimate experiences more attractive, maybe people would get almost as much XP or whatever they are after in legitimate experiences that have at least one other human in them. They might sacrifice a little boosting for a game that is actually enjoyable to play.  But since item #1 makes that impossible, item #2 is a major problem for every other community server.

Couldn't have said it better.

I haven't played BF6 since they destroyed the portal and I refuse to come back until its reverted back. 

As soon as I seen the trailer of BF6 and how the portal was supposed to be.. Create your own experiences and progress play how you want. I pre-ordered right after that. Even put a positive comment.

They made me out to be a liar on that comment after they baited and switched us. Ill stand my ground. I won't load BF6 again until they give us what was promised.

I was under the impression I was able to create my own experiences play them with family and friends only. I dont like the toxicity of multi-player or those undetectable cheats they use in multi-player. I dont believe that 98% of games are cheater free. 

Apparently not. 

Having a fps game that your shots dont register all the time is a game breaker for me. I like to use DMRs and putting 4 shots into someone then them turn and lazer me with a smg is bs.

The game is so broken. I can wait til its fixed usually its 2 to 4 years for them to get things right anyway.

Ill just play Arc Raiders. 

PS...The static option for bots is what created this whole farming bot problem. <removed>

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getting those unlocks DOESN'T translate into you dominating in MP.

You may be talking about it being a red herring, but I'll say that your position is somewhat of a straw man. I think a more reasonable position is to mention that it gives you a decisive advantage. So even if you don't dominate, you'd still play better than if you didn't have those attachments. It's a simple fact that many of the most powerful attachments like thermal sights, suppressors, or grips without ADS accuracy penalties are often locked until you reach a higher level. I don't think that really matters as much at this point though, because people have had time to get their unlocks by now, but it certainly did matter in the first few weeks after the game came out. 

Then there's another issue related to what I'd call "prestige" challenges. It's the challenges that are really difficult, where you unlock some kind of skin that you can use to show off to other players. Regardless of whether you personally care about that sort of thing, there are certainly people that do. Having those challenges be accessible by defeating bots, devalues that aspect of the challenge. 

I am rank 140-something and don't have a thermal scope for any gun yet.  I haven't yet found a gun that is perfect enough in every scenario, game mode, or situation that the game causes me to grind in, to use that gun enough to get those OP attachments.  But are those attachments really that OP and do they make enough of a difference? I don't know.

I guess I am on the fence about if boosting is unfair or whatever. I just don't care. Just make everyone have the same options and apply policy uniformly to everyone and every server, and it just won't matter any more. But that's the opposite of what EA has done.  They have applied policy based on date, have not revoked what they have approved earlier, and have completely destroyed portal.

I didn't say it didn't give you better equipment. In fact, I said it did give you those unlocks. What I said is that it didn't make you dominate. You still have to be good. 

I didn't think about the server side. I see how that would be an issue. But I think there is a better solution than what they have come up with. So they can keep the promise they made while also limiting the farming lobbies. 

It only gives you an advantage over those who do not have that equipment yet. It doesn't give you any advantage over those who do have it. And if all can boost to get it... then it is an equal playing field. If only those who are good or have time can get them... unequal.  In short - you are proving my point. 

Regarding the skins - I see your point there and wouldn't mind them creatively blocking off those more cosmetic things from being earned through portal at all. That actually makes a lot of sense. Let us unlock weapon attachments and core gameplay items any way we want... and save the harder non-boostable challanges for the cosmetics. 

I agree 100%. I was pretty on the fence about boosting before. But giving it to us then taking it away has only served to destroy what was truly unique about this game. 

I've tried to hop into a hardcore server and I just end up sitting in a lobby for 20 minutes because we are waiting on 20 people to play...