I’m seriously lolling at all the people who thought that Gallywix was clean “because the guys I knew totes didn’t RMT”, just for the leadership to immediately confess to doing so.
Also it was a ponzi scheme and y’all were busting your butts so the Gallywix leadership could take a cut and turn that into actual cash. Well done.
Heroic Nya is 220k? damn, that’s a ripoff.
Nzoth isn’t that hard if you can teach people the down phases.
Former Method members already admitted the guild paid real cash to Gallywix for gold.
What’s with all you high and mighty folks with your “you got what you deserved, you should’ve known better” attitudes? Some of us don’t read the weekly WoW newsletter that apparently contains all this obvious information about Gallywix selling Method gold and doing RMT. Up until last night, I had absolutely no idea they were involved in RMT, and assumed they were a legitimate operation acting within the ToS to sell carries for in-game gold.
Sorry dudes, but there’s way more important news to read in your spare time than what WoW boosting organizations may or may not be engaging in RMT. Jesus. I can’t even imagine, on top of the amount of time you have to invest in this game playing it, researching raids, keeping up with your class changes, reading about the new expansion, etc., that you also find time to keep abreast of WoW news and boosting service organization rumors.
A few d-bags at the top ripped off thousands of unknowing and innocent persons that invested their time to earn gold for the organization under the assumption they’d receive in-game gold for their boosting services, and it’s not their fault they didn’t “assume” and “know” that some folks at the top were doing this and jeopardizing everyone.
The above analogies to shady corporate practices are on point. When the CEO and a few other officers rip off the entire company, you don’t tell the workers they “got what they deserved” unless you know for a fact that those workers were in on the scheme. Some people are just trying to earn a buck doing what they enjoy. Some players hate farming and crafting, and love doing dungeons, and just saw an opportunity to make some gold.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to check WoW CNN.
You couldn’t be more wrong if you tried to tell us 2+2=7826.
This is Blizzard’s bed. They’ve been making it for years with their instant gratification and attempts at obscuring good players from bad and their ‘one size shoe fits everyone’ game design. They made the community as it now sits… BLIZZARD did this and they just sit back eating popcorn while we go at each other’s throats. Now they get to lay in their bed they made.
So what do people think happened to all of the gold accumulated? Either their cut was hoarded or it was “distributed.” I doubt anyone could sit on possibly billions of gold and not try to cash in. You’re talking possibly 7 figures in cash there.
Seems pretty clear to me: you work with them you get the ban.
You know there are a couple of solutions for this. For starters the reason people buy gold instead of using Tokens is because right now its roughly 114k for a $20 Token. If you buy from sellers you can get over 200k gold for that same price. Match the pricing you really hurt gold sellers hard and quickly. Secondly remove BoE’s during the race to World First each tier. You’ll eliminate the RMT aspect of buying BoE’s to win.
As far as I know people that boosted and only got gold didn’t get ban.
Probably would be ringing more true if they did ban those people.
Fact is, you can’t trust this type of community when nobody of authority can background check them. You don’t have to follow the news to know that when you deal with that type of community that they might be shady. You just accept to take the risk and try to blind yourself willingly if you see them breaking the rules because you’re just in for the gold and it’s still one of the fastest way to make gold.
Most people concerned about this truly just want to make gold and that’s understandable, but don’t get on your high horse when people find out proves that your community has been cheating. So while they’re not the one cheating for boosting for gold, they are in my book still associated with the crime, hence not victims like you trying to make. They are basicly an acessory to the crime.
But you get the chance to get banned. Depends how you want to see it.
Then it becomes crafted gear or etc. Sure Nyalotha with it’s corruption gear was funky. But at some point people that want to rmt will rmt. Having a lower gold cap helped with rmt I think the best, but it’s hard to scroll it back.
Nice.
Only Blizzard can sell gold and profit off of it. (And i mean more than WoW tokens).
Also, pay your employees more. Thanks.
the thing with the wowtoken first is it’s value is controlled by Blizzard and that you can’t cash out with wowtoken. The main problem with rmt is people are cashing out with gold. Which also has legal ramifications for Blizzard if they don’t act agaisn’t it.
Blizzard amazing job talking down a big fish .
Why not attack the other sites that do this crap? Why not buy a boost on these websites and ban accounts take them all down fix all the issues so more wont dare try to do this
Am…I the only one who has no idea what this group even is? I’ve never heard of any of this until seeing this post lol
Same, but I have seen a lot of spamming for these services pick up especially during the past few months on my server so I wonder if they were part of this group or not. Either way good job on Blizzard for getting this down.
It’s not slander if it’s true.
It would be nice to see blizzard increase the cost of tokens (gold price) so they would be valuable to purchase and sell on the AH.
Why would they increase something that’s entirely set by the supply and demand of players? If it’s a low gold price it means lots of people are buying them to sell on the AH so id say it’s just fine.
Blizzard has absolute control of the price and gold for tokens. They set a price they know more people will opt into, to buy game time so it looks like the game has more numbers. For me, it is clear that the price and gold for the token is way too low to ever by a token and sell it on the AH. It would need to be 2 to 3 times as much gold for $20 bucks.
You must be new then because at one point they were worth less than 20k gold and people still bought and sold them a lot. I see what you mean though with the interviews yesterday guilds like method we’re getting a million gold for 50 dollars or something from what I heard compared to the 100ish thousand for 20$ from Blizzard. But the trade off is the ban hammer and like I said Blizzard doesn’t mess with the token price so unless they change their policy on that I wouldn’t expect much.
Whelp, it’s an annoyance to the rest of the wow community. We cannot see meaningful things in trade like, guild recruitment, profession sales, etc. Instead we see a hundred+ people all spamming boosting and other gold making schemes in the name of Galleywix or Huokan and now some for S+L which is new or others going rogue and not advertising a community and putting “GOLD ONLY” in big caps thinking they are in the clear. Let me reiterate … it is spam… period.
100% agree Idun