Now with the thousands of people buying bug parts instead of farming them you have massive numbers of bots farming the bugs as well as kicking open world botting into overdrive to supply the gold needed. Make bug parts bop!
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Just ban RMTers within a week of their Scarab Lord banging the gong \o/
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yeah totally let the bots get away with it… GREAT IDEA
Why would the bot not be banned in six months like Blizzard assures that they do?
well now’s the time… The bot population seems to have doubled over night. Basically they have their active ones and their backups all out together. If they banned them all now they would kill their backup line too which would actually have an impact.
If we believe the obvious embellishments told to us by the greentexters, banning bots is very very time-consuming because each individual ‘bot’ must be thoroughly investigated by Blizzard’s ‘Department of Stopping Botting and Real Money Trading’.
However, my suggestion is that Blizzard focus on players who unlock the Scarab Lord title during the AQ event. If RMTing is occurring – and I don’t doubt that it is – then temporarily narrowing the scope to players who achieve Scarab Lord should allow the ‘Department of Stopping Botting and Real Money Trading’ to identify players who have engaged in conduct that violates the ToS/EULA and action their accounts accordingly.
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or you could just park next to a thorium vein spawn point or basically anywhere in a zone with plaguebloom and in a half hour you will see every bot on that particular layer. It is absolutely mind boggling when you actually look
if blizzard banned RMTers, more than half wow subs will be gone 
almost everyone is buying gold for various reasons, therefor tons of people are farming and selling gold
I would be OK with that… Playing with people that cheat at video games shouldn’t be a thing…
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Right – RMTing doesn’t become a problem for Blizzard until the chargebacks start.
So, for the duration of the AQ event, Blizzard should focus on banhammering players engaged in RMT that is directly associated with the AQ event (and thus much more narrow parameters of what they need to be tracking, i.e. carapace fragments et al).
Players bang the gong, get their Scarab Lord title, then numerous players engaging in RMT find their accounts suspended within a week or two. Hilariousness++
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Blizz wouldn’t be ok with it though. Imagine explaining at a shareholder meeting why 50% of the wow classic players that were paying $15 a month all left the game the same week.
Banning bots and RMT loses blizz money. It’s very expensive to effectively detect and ban them. And to handle the appeals and reviews of bans.
There’s a reason blizz laid off all of the in game GM’s several years ago and outsourced customer services to people overseas who have never played the game.
imagine if those same people actually knew there was zero integrity for their product anymore
Shareholders don’t care about the games integrity. They care about the bottom line.
Which is why wow has focused so hard on the in game shop micro transactions. Blizz made more money reskinning a Dino mount with an ah on its back and selling it for $90 for a limited time than they did from people subbing exclusively for sod.
Classic plus will need an in game shop if we don’t want another bare bones dev team that is split between all versions of classic like we got in sod.
It’s not like you’re gonna bang the gong.
its 2025… imagine cheating to bang a gong in a game
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Imagine cheating in general.
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yet here we are…
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So stop playing with cheaters.
Make a big stink in your guild so they kick the cheaters(gold buyers).
Who cares. It’s for an ugly bug mount that no one will care about when we get Vanilla release again or Classic plus.
These people are just wasting their money and time.