Aggrend's Stance on the Incorrect Ban Fearmongering

god i hope not

Don’t care about that either. Let Blizzard take over the rmt. I don’t buy or have any reason to buy gold.

I don’t believe that if Blizzard is tracking the movement of game currency that the transactions related to a specific raid id make it any more difficult to follow. But okay - so that takes too much manpower they don’t have. So it’s more cost effective to remove the ability of players to take those steps. I’d rather not have choice denied to a team or community then tell that group or guild that “the erosion of traditional guild and social structures” are why this must be done for their (the player’s) own good. Followed up by preaching the gospel of the Spirit of the season.

Just put in the damn token if you wanna wear the white hats so bad. For sure that’ll fix everything.
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Your friends may not be lying, they may not have bought gold, but they may not be telling you the full truth either.

Did they get banned for gold buying and moving it or did they get banned for running an automated system to farm that gold and then got banned? Just because they didn’t buy gold doesn’t mean they didn’t catch a legit ban.

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I used to think everyone was lying, but now that he’s started talking about it I’m not so sure.

Particularly this part

any false positives are not numerous enough for statistical significance.

There are literally videos and threads on people getting automated responses from support. He couldn’t possibly know this and is subsequently lying.

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I love it.

The mental gymnastics of the GDKP community is incredible. It’s truly so entertaining that Blizzard could sell subscriptions just to watch it with a narrated voice over.

“GDKP AREN’T RMT!” - gets directly exposed for being linked to RMT

“GDKP WILL NEVER BE BANNED!” - gets banned

“WE’LL RUN GDKPS AND CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE!” - still gets banned

“WE’RE SELLING AND SPLITTING THE PROFITS FROM A NO DROP!” - gets banned

“WE’RE SELLING CARRY RUNS, NOT GDKP! IT’S DIFFERENT!” - gets banned

“GDKP ISN’T LAUNDERING!” - gets directly exposed, and correlated with RMT laundering

"WE’LL DO GDKPS ON DISCORD! THEY CAN’T PROVE IT! - gets banned

“WE’RE BEING FALSELY BANNED!” - gets exposed for being banned for cheating

“GONNA UNSUB IF GDKP REMOVED!” - gets banned for RMT

"REDDIT HELP I GOT BANNED FOR NO REASON! - gets exposed accepting hundreds of RMT gold via mailbox

“BLIZZARD IS LYING! I DIDN’T RMT!” - lead GM flat out says there’s no false bans happening, and they were banned for rmt

“RANDOM BANNED DIDN’T RMT!” - gets exposed participating in “totally not gdkp” gdkp runs

I would pay $15 a month just to have someone in a monotone voice read me these things ASMR style while I sit in SM on alts.

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If you get banned you’re more than likely breaking ToS. However everyone praising blizzard for actually cleaning up SoD isn’t playing much. Gold buyers are still everywhere and bots are just as bad as they were in p1

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Just because they are getting automated responses doesn’t mean they didnt do something to get banned.

The issue ive found over the years isn’t that most of them are outright lying its more that they tend to give half truths.

So what you end up with is " I didn’t buy gold ", which in fact may be a true statement, but wasn’t what they were banned for in the first place.

They may have done a ban wave on gold buyers, but that doesn’t mean it was the only thing included in the ban wave.

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Aggrend will probably lose his job by the end of the year due to a rapidly deteriorating player base.

Microblizz doesn’t care about hearts and feelings, they care about subscriptions.

Subs > Scrubs

Take some sun, You’re in the same lvl as pro dkpers crying in the forums.

Fun fact: with gdkp or NO gdkp You Will be always low skill cap player.

Gdkp is banned but botting is insane rn and blizzard is not talking about it, which is like 10000x times worse than some nerds sweeping a credit Card for a loot that i can get for free.

If You sell a good item in AH to a bot / gold buyer You’re doomed and thats a fact, with this automated system without real GMs no one is safe, l 0 s 3 r

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You are just trying to deflect.

They fight the bots constantly and are banning accounts all the time. It is a losing battle because people will never accept the absolute way to battle bots…

Make it so you have to attach some form of real life ID to a game account that way when you get banned… you get banned and can’t make another account.

You either do the above… or turn off all forms of trading and AH … but that would kill the game.

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No, it’s blame the cheaters who are blatantly lying.

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but blizzard has talked about it repeatedly. they have stated that they feel its a big problem. that they are committing significant resources. they ask players to report the bots when they see them. Blizzard has stated they feel GDKP are connected to RMT. Bots are connected to RMT. GDKPs are therefore connected to RMT and botting. The GDKP defends just keeping making excuses. GDKPs are a big part of the bot problem. GDKPs are inseparable from RMT. RMT and GDKPs are inseparable from botting for this reason. GDKPs are banned because of the conection to cheating. It is tie to move on from GDKPs if you want to SoD. Or move on from SoD if you want to GDKP.

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You seem pretty invested.

You don’t think your suggestion would kill off the game too? Lets attach a real life ID to every account and then make Blizzard’s account servers prime targets for hackers looking to make money on stolen IDs. Yeah No thanks.

What does that have to do with anything?

Yes, it’s a terrible pain to actually get in contact with a real person.

Has nothing to do with the legitimacy of bans.

ITT: gold buyers malding and seething because the devs are calling their bluff.

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Yes, it’s a terrible pain to actually get in contact with a real person.

You guys are aware there is a live ticket function on their site right? Unless they removed it within the last year it should still be there intentionally buried in the CS section.

Yeah put in a ticket and wait a week for a response. I remember back in Vanilla you’d be talking to a person easily within the hour.

But that doesn’t change the fact people are lying about false bans.

We’re here.
We’re posting.
I N V E S T E D

I highly doubt the people who have got a false ban, and then had to navigate the HORRIBLE ticket system for literally weeks agree with this.