GameBoost is a very interesting online website that provides video game-related services. If you just flip through the comments about it, you can see many consecutive negative reviews, while the website has a positive rate of 45%, as if many negative reviews are not counted.
In addition, many companies that have overlapping businesses with GameBoost have been slandered and attacked by it. So what kind of company is GameBoost? Is it really as good as it boasts? Or, is it really worthy of players’ trust?
The Establishment Of GameBoost
GameBoost was established in 2018 by Kristijan Salijević, a former EB24 employee. This Croatian used to be a game power leveler and was obviously familiar with related businesses.
However, rich power leveling experience does not mean that Kristijan Salijević knows how to operate related businesses. In the first two years of GameBoost’s establishment, the website was almost ignored. In January 2020, GameBoost’s monthly visits exceeded 100 people. In September 2020, the website’s monthly visits finally increased slightly, finally reaching a number close to 500.
In April 2022, GameBoost finally waited for its first investment. Fil Rouge Capital gave GameBoost 500,000 euros in financing, but the money was quickly consumed within eight months. But GameBoost did not explain what role the money played in the operation of the website.
At least in 2022, the company’s losses were as high as more than 600,000 euros, and they only turned from loss to profit in 2023. The 2023 financial report showed that Kristijan Salijević’s company only made a profit of more than 60,000 euros.
GameBoost’s Business
GameBoost’s main business is to provide power leveling services for other players. By hiring power levelers to help their customers improve their game levels, or achieve certain achievements, clear specific areas, etc.
GameBoost has many competitors in this field, such as IGGM or Eloking. GameBoost’s services are not outstanding among them.
The games that GameBoost provides services for are as follows:
- League of Legends
- Valorant
- World of WarCraft
- WoW: Season of Discovery
- Apex Legends
- Rocket League
- Overwatch 2
- Teamfight Tactics
- LoL: Wild Rift
- Counter-Strike 2
- Fortnite
- Destiny 2
GameBoost’s Methods
For popular games, the competition for power leveling is very fierce. GameBoost lacks competitiveness in related businesses, so the smart GameBoost team has come up with other methods.
GameBoost once sent a lot of emails about GameBoost services to the mailboxes of many users who have never purchased services from GameBoost. Not to mention where GameBoost obtained the information of these users, the news of spamming other people’s mailboxes is also disgusting. The owner of GameBoost not only did not apologize, but responded sharply to these feedbacks, so GameBoost is not very good among players.
For its peers, GameBoost also likes to play some tricks. GameBoost once poached employees from other companies and instructed them to write false and biased articles to discredit their original companies.
This happened more than once, and GameBoost was actually quite addicted to it. Eloking, GGBoost and IGGM were all slandered by GameBoost. Even EB24, where Kristijan Salijević worked, was one of them.
GameBoost’s Services
GameBoost is happy to discredit the efforts of other companies, but its own services are not necessarily that good. As the saying goes, good reviews are all the same, but bad reviews are all kinds of different.
GameBoost once wrote an article to slander IGGM’s poor service and specifically picked out screenshots of bad reviews under IGGM’s comment area to create a false impression that IGGM is very bad.
First of all, bad reviews are inevitable for a website that serves many gamers. IGGM is busy, and it is inevitable that there will be mistakes or oversights. What is more important is compensation and remedy for users.
IGGM’s negative reviews are mainly focused on not receiving goods or service delays, and almost every bad review has a reply from IGGM staff. IGGM is willing to communicate with customers actively, solve their problems, and give them a satisfactory experience.
GameBoost’s negative reviews seem to have a lot of reasons. To summarize briefly, there are several types:
- The waiting time is particularly long
- The account is blocked, and no refund is allowed
- Require customers to provide detailed identity information
- Provide players with blocked accounts
- No goods received at all
In addition, there are many other reasons for negative reviews, and the reasons given are very detailed. It can be seen that they are not from the smear of peers. Instead, they are indeed from the unlucky people who bought services from GameBoost.
To be honest, the frequency of negative reviews is still not low, and GameBoost did not respond to these negative reviews in time below. Just like many customers described in their negative reviews as “cheated”, these customers who gave negative reviews were indeed deceived by GameBoost.
Regardless of the actual service level of GameBoost, at least from the comments section, it can be seen that GameBoost does not care about after-sales service for players. If you choose GameBoost’s service, then after you pay, they may completely forget about you.
Instead of focusing on running the company and improving the customer experience, GameBoost is using investors’ money to attack other peers. This behavior is both narrow-minded and ridiculous.
