Only those who actually violate Blizzard’s ToS should be disqualified — specifically, people who hand over their accounts to third parties or pay real money.
This season, I got into the last keys I needed by giving gold to players who already had the key, finding them through LFG. I do not believe that people like me should be excluded from the race because of this.
After I gave gold to people for an invite to a key, I was added to a questionable list that does not include a single person who actually shared their account or paid real money.
Because I apparently upset some streamer (that’s literally what is written there, lol) in one of the keys — at a moment when I had just entered a +20 Dawn for the first time and was only starting to get used to the boss — I was placed at rank #1 on that list and publicly dragged for it. All because, having only one Dawn invite every couple of weeks, I didn’t instantly play the boss perfectly.
Later, I timed a +20 Dawn normally — the key was not resil, and I did not pay gold for it.
Meanwhile, people who actually violated Blizzard’s ToS by paying real money or handing over their accounts are not on that list at all.
All players on the so-called “buyers” list in TWW Season 3 played their own characters and got their invites by paying gold.
This strongly suggests that the people who created this list are trying to limit honest players’ access to invites just because they once agreed to pay gold for a good chance to time a key — effectively pushing them toward paying real money in future seasons.
The only thing I genuinely regret is that I was convinced that once I was already in title range, I would not affect the lower cutoff of the top 0.1%. However, if you look at it from another angle, in the current system more than 50% of players spend half a day wiping in resil keys, while I timed the keys I paid gold for in one or two attempts.
I understand that a lot of hate may be directed at me now. But what really makes me sad is the people who take this list seriously. I just want to say this: if you played mechanics correctly and showed good performance on logs, it does not matter whether you got into the key by paying gold or through friends. What matters is that you played your role properly and did not violate Blizzard’s rules.
If you face hate because of this list, I am always willing to offer you my key — because you did not break Blizzard’s ToS. Remember that.
The community that maintains these lists is toxic and dishonest.