Buying gold from other players in the game is risky and harmful. It supports malicious activities and violates the End User License Agreement. We urge you to avoid such transactions to protect your account and maintain a fair gaming environment.
Gold buying Risks and Consequences
Purchasing gold from other players puts your account at risk of being hacked and supports companies that steal accounts, operate bots, and disrupt the game economy. Participating in transactions that support gold sellers can lead to the removal of the gold and a permanent suspension for your account.
Deceptive Tactics
Gold sellers use automated bots and deceptive methods, including sending unsolicited gold or requesting trades outside the in-game chat to evade detection. A common sign that youâre dealing with a gold seller is an insistence that the delivery of the gold be made by a different character than the character making the initial arrangement.
Safe Practices to Avoid Gold Sellers
Players should never buy gold from other players with real money. Rememberâyou should only accept gold from players that you know, or through crafting or profession agreements made using in-game chat. Always avoid gold trades intended to cross game variants, realms, or factions that are not explicitly supported by the game.
The only safe way to purchase gold is via the WoW Token, which provides a convenient and sanctioned exchange of gold for game time or Battle.net Balance directly through the in-game Auction House.
This would carry more weight if blizzard actually cared about stopping the bots. Instead you encourage them by allowing them to mass report anyone trying to actually farm in their bot area and blizzard just banning the real people.
You also have no qualms with banning the buyers, but never the sellers.
Also, no token on anniversary. So since no token, you are actively encouraging gold buying since the bots are the ones that control the in game economy. How is this an issue 20 years later?!?!? Small indie company?!?
Itâs as simple as banning accounts linked to spamming the same certain links that appear in services chat (which is just a spam chat now, which isnât good for the game), as well as group finder. Itâs insane to think nobody can figure out a good filtering/ban method to put an end to off-site linking of game services for $$.
Posting this five minutes after nerfing the cantrip boots for lower difficulties and forcing M+ players to buy carries or suck forever is not a good look
I get seriously ruffled when Blizzard flat-out says:
âYou canât buy gold with real money - unless itâs from us.â
Thatâs not just outdated, itâs usurped!
People have lives! - They log in to play, not to farm endlessly just to afford consumables, repairs, and upgrades.
Letâs be honest - unless you play 24/7, constantly grinding mats, running content, flipping auctions, or crafting like a machine, keeping up with the in-game economy without buying gold is unrealistic for most.
Forcing everyone to use the WoW Token system if they want to buy Gold - while simultaneously pricing it way out of line with actual market value - bottlenecks players and punishes casuals.
If Blizzard actually wants to fix this, hereâs where to start:
Ban the thousands of accounts working with pay-for-play sites selling gold, raid carries, and item runs. These players are a cancer to the gameâs long-term health.
Remove direct gold trading via mail or in-person. Drastically reduce the ability to launder gold through alt accounts or âtrusted friends.â
Overhaul the subscription model. Make WoW free to play, but give subscribers $15 worth of in-game gold monthly if they choose to pay the sub fee. Let us choose how we support the game - time or money - with actual value in return.
Itâs not just about breaking rules anymore. Itâs about control - and that doesnât sit right with 99% of the player base.
âDont buy gold from unknown sources. Just buy gold from us via the WoW token. We acknowledge all the bots ruining our game too, but we absolutely donât care so please just buy the gold from us instead.â
I am a Brazilian World of Warcraft player and have been dedicated to the game for over 15 years. Iâm writing this letter to express my deep frustration and disappointment with the unfair treatment that Latin American players have been receiving â especially regarding the lack of access to the WoW Token, Blizzardâs official feature that allows players to legally and safely purchase gold within the game.
We are workers, parents, students, with very limited free time. We play World of Warcraft as a form of relaxation after long workdays. We simply donât have the time or means to farm gold for hours, especially considering the heavy demands of consumables, enchants, and gear required to participate in competitive content like Mythic+ dungeons and Mythic raids.
The WoW Token, which allows the legal, safe, and Blizzard-approved purchase of gold, is a fair solution. Its absence in our region clearly represents an unequal and discriminatory policy, putting us at a disadvantage compared to players in other regions, such as the United States and Europe.
The immediate inclusion of the WoW Token on Brazilian and Latin American servers, allowing the legal purchase of gold.
The review and reversal of unfair bans resulting from this unequal and exclusionary policy.
An official, transparent, and public statement from Blizzard regarding the absence of the WoW Token in our region
You should try thinking for once: yes, the WoW token has always been a way to buy gold legitimately. It was introduced as a way to combat gold sellers and provide people who would buy gold a way to do it legitimately as a way to avoid losing their account; whether from getting banned or losing access to their account via unsafe online practices.
However, due to how the gold is managed in terms of worth - it means that you donât do it by generating additional gold, you simply move it around via currency on the Battle.net launcher.
If you had, even for half a second, thought about this ⌠all of this wouldâve been blindingly obvious. The people who try to compare the gold buying Blizzard offers and the gold generated by other third parties whom you buy the gold from are doing so dishonestly, since thatâs day and night in terms of how it works.
Grow up.
Hereâs a more accurate version: âDonât be stupid and lose your account, either by it getting banned or because a gold seller now stole your account to resell the gold they sold you. Buy a token legitimately so we donât lose money having to deal with you losing your account, us having to ban you, and ultimately we canât get players to stop doing this so⌠better we provide the service at least since then it can at least be made safe and be built to not increase inflation.â
Also they do ban bots. Stop being a terminally online angry troll.
It was said outright when introduced, because it got so bad the gold selling sites were advertising in game, with lvl 1 corpses falling from the sky, right in front of the AH. Something had to be done, it was the right move, but itâs created controversy from day one. Probably because the complainers were getting a better deal the wrong way.
