He hasn’t been right about anything. He simultaneously believes that the primarily use case for RMT is to pay for consumables while also believing that gold is incredibly easy to farm. Nobody trying to engage in legitimate raiding is going to risk RMT just to buy consumables that are super easy to farm for.
But as long as we can all agree or at least pretend to agree that they should deal with RMT and delete all the gold all the way down the pipeline then it doesn’t matter. The ramifications of Blizzard actually doing such a thing would speak for itself.
There’s no way blizzard would touch this with a 10 foot pole, imagine legitimate gold got taken away because someone bought the gold 5 instances up the pipeline and thousands upon thousands of players punished through no fault of their own, every single player playing the game today would have gold taken from them due to the company’s own weak anti-cheat team, it’d put the company firmly in the crosshairs of thousands of paying customers
how could they possibly verify that the guy who bought their terocones was in a bt gdkp with a guy who was in a bt gdkp with another guy who was in a gdkp where someone bought a glaive? all they did was farm terocones, now their gold is gone lol
lol, most of the people buying do so because they are broke. And most of the gold sellers attempt to sell it asap to not loose it if/when they get banned. Anyone w/ 50k+ prob either works the AH or does GDKP
They don’t have any issues detecting RMT. They never have. Sometimes they ban falsely but it’s quickly addressed.
They just have issues actually enforcing their policy. And then when they do, they ban for 3 days and say they’re gonna take away the stuff they bought but don’t. I know someone who RMT for his epic mount / flying and he got banned for 3 days and the mount and skill was still there when he came back, despite an email stating that his items would be revoked. They only took the extra 300g hanging in his backpack. So he had 0 gold but it didn’t matter because he had epic flying.
Game needs to go back to permanently banning accounts. They don’t take their games seriously anymore sadly though
All trades and AH exchanges are tracked. If they catch a gold farmer they can see how much gold was traded off of that character and then go down the pipe until that amount of gold is removed or delete vendor items bought with gold from those characters. They have the ability to do all of this. If they wanted to.
Really they just have to deal with the most egregious offenders first to deter other people from doing it in the future.
A lot of people do, especially in more competitive guilds. You’re blind if you think otherwise. It was probably a lot worse towards the first portion of the expansion though.
When people actually get in trouble, they issue a 3 day ban which is basically nothing.
Blizzard will remain inactive and/or impotent on policing their game, because they don’t want to lose 2/3+ of their Classic subscription base by perma-banning the cheating/exploiting/enabling people that you mentioned.