You heard it here first folks - friend in Blizz Asia support said they had added new tech recently to more clearly track mails sent from confirmed gold seller accounts. Enjoy!
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They dont have a motive to ban gold buyer/sellers or bots. They need all the subs they can get
Im all for it if they do though
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blizz aint gunna ban nobody… they need all the subs they can get
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Would be nice but, yeah.
Doubt.
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Why would this require more tech?
Pull data with query, drop into excel, run basic pivot.
Cutting edge in…the 80’s maybe?
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Remember, people said the same thing about multiboxing.
“They will never ban the software they need the subs” and they made it to where any form of mirroring is a big no no.
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No guys, botters often actually cost Blizzard money in the form of chargeback disputes. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that botters make Blizzard a very tiny amount of money, but they are NOT a net positive overall.
Excel? LMAO
My friend, you have a cartoonish idea of how all this stuff works in the background.
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false, i have friends that got 2 week bans for buying gold. So you dont really make sense
I mean sure most backends should have in bult reporting structures for doing this. Been like 10 years since I left corp america and our oldest switches (12+ years at that point) had them.
My point being that the idea of needing “new tech” is silly.
That said…the contempt for excel/spreadsheet of choice analysis handicapped almost every project I ever worked on with I.T.
“Oh c’mon man…we can build a report for that. Stay in your lane; we’ll handle the data reporting.”. Wait six weeks…get simple text output without data attached so I have to do it myself anyways to be able to actually do useful analysis beyond “ooohhh pretty numbers”.
YMMV of course.
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I’ll pose a question. Does anyone think gold sellers are paying for accounts?
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You’re the type of guy that lists out “Microsoft Office Suite” as a skill.
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yet we still see lots of multiboxing.
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Someone is paying for the hijacked accounts.
your furiously wrong and bless kiaryel for being a saint to you lol
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If it’s not a perma-ban then it’s a joke.
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kek, yeah, these clowns got some tech from China alright. To detect and ban right-wing voters probably.
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Doubt.
I was trying to quest in fjord with this character and got stuck twice on 2 different areas because there were swarms of bots killing the mobs I needed nonstop, day and night. I just moved back to raidlogging my main
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Sorry you can still multibox, it’s the mirroring they canned.
You can easily run 2 maybe 3 but beyond that it starts to get tiresome.
Sorry I wasn’t clear with that earlier. 
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And how would you know that?
You know how fast they would hit file sizes that would simply break excel? You have no concept of the scope of the data involved here
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