Hi,
So I got banned for RMT. I’m 100% guilty. This isn’t boohoo Blizzard ban me falsely, and I’m innocent help.
More, I want to open discussion to understand exactly what is allowed and is not allowed.
So in the past, I heard boosting for gold is allowed. Is that correct? Say I buy a HC Aberrus boost for 200k or w/e. I give the guy 200k, he gets me in a HC run and boosts me. All good.
If I buy gold with wow token. This is also OK.
So just so I understand this doesn’t happen in the future.
I can’t buy gold from other sellers that are not Blizzard.
I can’t pay the booster with real life money or with gold I bought from seller. But I can pay them with gold I got from token and that’s OK?
Again, this is not a pity me, I am innocent, I am 100% guilty. But I just want to understand the rules so it doesn’t happen in the future.
Thanks
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As it clearly states in the ToS, RMT IS a bannable offense. Intoducing the Token means, Money goes to Blizzard, while also crushing the gold sellers/farmers, but also allowing those players to pay for their wow time with in-game gold instead of currency. For Blizz, it’s a win win
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Basic rule of thumb is this.
Buying boosting services/carries for in-game gold = Okay.
Buying boosting services/carries for out of game currency/items = Not Okay.
Buying gold via the WoW token = Okay.
Buying gold via external gold seller websites = Not Okay.
On top of that the use of any automation tools, like bots is obviously not okay, as is using any service that requires you to share your account details so someone else can do something in-game for you.
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Buying a token for gold is just facilitating a legitimate trade between 2 players. Blizzard did not conjure this gold out of the air. Presumably someone else legitimately earned said gold.
In the case of RMT trades for gold, those companies do not earn said gold legitimately. Often they come from hacked accounts, or by iligitimate game play, such as botting.
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As long as Blizzard is getting money it’s ok. Once Blizzard stops getting money, it’s not ok.
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You left out the part where Blizzard enables rmt scammers to solicit you and all players with in game tools provided by Blizzard.
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They do not.
They’ve made it perfectly clear that advertising boosting services can only be done in the Trade (Services) channel, meaning any advertisements in any other channel are reportable and scamming has always been reportable.
You may not get any items or gold back if you’re scammed, but it’s never been an acceptable practice that Blizzard has enabled.
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They provide the platform and do nothing to prevent the behavior. They can make w/e claims they like but the problem still persists.
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You can only buy fake money directly from Blizzard. Buying it from someone else doesn’t make Blizzard any money, and that makes them a sad panda.
Also, they made a boost tab to facilitate token sales, but they won’t have your back if the other party leaves you empty handed.
From one side this seems like a really good deal, right?
Best of luck, and I advise just playing the game. No amount of money will achieve a win here, since everything resets every 6 months.
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They literally silence/ban people for advertising RMT/Scam services. What are you on about?
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Blizz wants all the money from boosting and tokens, so if you goto joes services you gonna get banned
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They do? In town and newcomer chat is flooded with 3rd party advertising all day everyday. Lol, okay nice story though.
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If I may, what exactly do you expect them to do? Bots and farmers make thousands of accounts, and steal a good amount as well. Outside of flat out ceasing any and all communication methods there’s not much of a good way to solve this problem. Blizzard didn’t ‘enable’ anything.
Hell the introduction of WoW Tokens was the best thing to do against gold sellers and scammers because now you could purchase Gold from a legitimate source as opposed to some really shady website where your account information can be compromised.
The best way is for players to report anyone advertising such services, which seems to have happened to OP here, or a GM seen suspect activity.
I mean you never know those bots could be buying tokens for free time since they got alot of gold why pay for sub
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Everyone just pretends RMT doesn’t happen there (even Blizzard). Give them gold, and they’ll sell it for money at some point.
Totally legit, gold only transaction, no RMT involved.
Does Blizz get money? Then all good.
No money going in to their pocket? Banned.
Yep they made the rules so that your money must go only to them 
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yes, that’s how business works. you cracked the case!
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Love how people who complain about tokens usually don’t even play at a level it matters.
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I know video game levels is pretty hard core
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the non stop calendar invites to rmt raids the lfg carry spam for both gold and rmt. I’m on about reality of playing wow.
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