Any Limit members involved?
Well, the advertisements that I saw said Limit was doing carries through them so idk.
A post in another thread on here mentioned that Limit borrowed and paid back 128M gold to fund their world first.
edit: depends on what you consider as “Involved”, though.
Actual fact is, thousands of people trusted this community, bought boosts from them, and trusted them to provide the service. Thousands more provided the service and trusted this community to pay them for services rendered.
Maybe. I know plenty of folks who dealt with this community and had no inclination that they were shady. Why should they? They didn’t seem shady to me. They’ve been around for how long? Longer than I’ve been back playing WoW. If they were doing anything shady, my assumption is, I would’ve heard about it before the other day, or that they’d have been shut down a long time ago. I assumed, fairly, that the length of time the organization has been around and the number of persons I know that boosted for it, suggested to me that it was on the up and up. And for the most part, it was. It was a few bad apples that spoiled a huge batch.
Well, it’s a good thing your book isn’t the one we go by, because that’s ridiculous logic. Accessories to crimes, by definition, provide aid, encouragement, or assistance to someone committing a crime (before the fact) or assistance to someone trying to escape punishment for a crime by facilitating escapes or cover ups of evidence (after the fact). In all cases, the accessory needs to know about the crime for liability to attach.
Which is my entire point here. The boosters, overwhelmingly, had no idea that a few higher ups were doing this. So yeah, they are victims. They spent time providing legitimate services with the expectation of compensation in gold and then received nothing because some bro somewhere needed more skrilla for vape juice and taco bell during a pandemic.
Yeah, trade chat had no spam before GW and it’s a real burden on the community.
Thank god we have our ‘Anal ,’ political garbage and ‘the answer to your question is alt+F4.’
Trade chat so good.
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You clearly have no clue. If you check the RMT sites they are always more expensive on anything other than large servers. I know as I looked out of interest given all the GD spam on this stuff lately.
Someone who doesnt buy the BS. This is not a real market. Price is fixed so supply and demand cant drive it. What drives it is demand for gold. More demand means lower price as that means more $/gp. Also if supply and demand were the drivers than why is the price the same across all servers for 3 hrs WHILE you are maintaining gold caps. No reason to have caps if you arent worried about server gold supply, but then you dont change the price according to that server? And price is set and you dont get delivery for 12 hrs? Its called float in the banking world.
This MBA in Finance calls bs. They have you guys convinced its supply and demand. It resembles nothing of the sort.
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On Asmongold’s video, one of the GW admins said that Limit borrowed that much, and ended up paying back over 150M gold total to cover the interest they were charged for the loan.
lol right?
I explained this in another thread.
When you have a business that’s a front for organized crime, or where you are laundering money. First off you don’t tell the bottom level people what’s going on, that’s idiotic, nor do you put up with ANYTHING going on near the business if you control the area, because that attracts attention.
These people arnt flipping 14$ mythic dungeon boosts, they are selling hundreds of millions of gold and items for tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, the less people that know, and the more legit you look the more you can get away with large volume stuff that makes the few at the top the real money.
This idea that they would be okay with small time RMT by pissants at the bottom of the ladder when they don’t make any money off that, but will catch all the heat is laughable.
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You’re mostly trying to defend ignorance, there’s no ignorance before the law.
Anyone with a decent brain know that any big community like that with billions of gold will end up at some point doing rmt. People just do it because it’s too good of a deal to skip and put their horse eye cover.
While it seemed legitimate because they got paid in gold, they helped the middleman basicly do rmt because of their own negligence. You should be happy Blizzard isn’t banning boosters.
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Thank you Blizzard for these actions, it’s appreciated.
I would like the opportunity of this thread to remind everyone that some simple actions can continuously help Blizzard to identify and punish those who advertise that kind of stuff on group finder.
Go to the group finder, on the search box type strings such as “WTS”,“BOOST”,'FREE LOOT",“CARRY” and you will quickly identify those who are clearly advertising real money “services”. It baffles me that some of them even put links (with spacings) to their sites. Then all you need to do is report advertisement, and do the same for dungeons, raids (bfa), pre-made and arena. It takes less than a minute. I imagine if most player did this on a daily basis, the ban waves would increase as well.
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If I had ran Gallywix I’d honestly once I bought everything I’d ever want…I’d do one of two things…start randomly giving huge sums of gold to random players. Or and I’d work with Blizzard on this to see if we could do it… charity raffles for gold. All proceeds would go to charity and I’d never actually see any money. I would work to get it officially sponsored by blizzard and have them to be the ones to legally make the donation for tax purposes.
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I’m wondering why the ppl doing boosts for Gallywix in return for gold only weren’t connecting with their clients directly and cutting out the middle person? [Ed. A genuine question, I have never taken a carry nor have the skill to offer one. The subset is a complete unknown to me]
They’ve said in the past they maintain some control over the price. If you look at wow china for example their tokens are 400k.
biggest reason gold on other servers gallywix would take gold on any server and then you would get your cut on your home server. You could also do stuff like aotc slams and legacy boosting that would be hard to organize on your own.
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Gally was a way to connect buyers sourced from advertisers with boosters, in a safe and quick manner. Boosters did not want or preferred not to sit in trade chat all day spamming to get buyers. I’m sure some guilds and/or m+ groups may have developed relationship with one the buyers, but the big money is on the new supply of buyers provided by advertisers. Recurring buyers run out of gold, get all the benefit from a given service and stop buying.
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Scammers know that having useful idiots front their shady operations is good business. Until the authorities catch on and the operation crumbles. Then it’s all about the money trail.
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im sure you got a lot of success
Thanks Blizzard. Continue banning all shady business, it makes the game better.
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