Continuing the discussion from Can we get some clarification on the updated policy?:
Wait… what do you mean between other realms and factions? You can no longer trade gold between people in your guild if they are of the other faction or server? I thought TWW that was the whole point of of having cross faction, cross server guilds. Why is this no longer allowed?
This was clarified in the updated Support Article.
You are perfectly fine to trade gold with whomever, as long as the in game systems allow. You can give gold to friends on other factions or servers just like before in a modern wow.
Last paragraph.
Cheers and thank you for the link.
The change in policy is almost certainly due to the high amount of people that are getting caught trading for bad gold. I suspect likely a large number of people who are getting snagged by this likely are unknowingly supporting the RMT trade, but that doesn’t really change the fact that they are participating in it.
This then creates a support problem when those people get suspended and it drives a lot of contacts since they will claim innocent, also being a very negative experience for these players. By changing this to prohibited, it removes the grey area, which should reduce the number of people that mistakenly get swept due to their accidental participation in the RMT trade.
Keep in mind if you receive gold that comes from a stolen account it will not end well for you. There are a lot of gold sellers involved in this type of thing hence the reason for this change.
When they say “trade” in the article, they mean a “swap” between two people where one person gives gold to one person, and the other person gives them gold back on another version of the game. It doesn’t refer to just trading things to a friend. It’s a very pretty specific thing that was prohibited.
The main target of this policy change is people trading things in retail in return for things on classic. This trading “community” was dominated by gold sellers and money launderers, and was getting lots of people suspended for (sometimes unknowingly) getting dirty gold from gold sellers. Thus, they want a complete stop to the practice, because it was primarily being used to launder money.
To fix these problems the best choice would be too
1, remove warband banks. I know that’ll upset some people but as a gold farmer it makes it a pain to sell Tmog when someone can go buy the same item for 30k cheaper on a different server or just remove Auction house limitations and make the AH the same across all realms, if we can group with someone on Moonguard it shouldn’t be complicated to make the AH affect all realms.
2, remove cross faction grouping so if someone on Ally is buying a boost they have to rely on the carry being a Ally as well
And 3, make boosting/carrying against TOS all together, its a pain in the rear seeing Trade/Services channels flooded with messages for selling boosts/Carrys, dont get me wrong Ive bought and sold my fair share myself with gold but going through custom raid LFG board and seeing WTS, every other post is wild, especially when 80% arent for gold but for real money on some sketchy site.
This seem like troll bait but ill bite, removing warband after they just invested into it as new staple of of the game crazy, not gonna happen. Remove cross faction WHAT lol one of the biggest improvements to bring more players together you want gone. And as for boosting/carrying you can turn the channels off / ignore them & report the ones that show up in the Grp Finder the ones for real money are already against ToS again report them.
…No? Blizzard wants to avoid people having to trade gold to a trusted friend and back again (on a character on a different server) in retail if someone’s wanting to move gold between servers on the same account. Removing the warband bank means people will have to go back to that, and then they’d fall afoul of these rules.
No. Considering you become counted as a neutral faction while you’re in a dungeon, and, as such, can trade and do group content with your group members as if you were all horde/alliance, this should stay.
This, I could get behind, with one clarification.
Paid boosts in M+/raids/PvP are banned.
Free boosts in M+/raids/PvP are not.
It’d be a real bad look if a high end guild got banned cause they wanted to carry one of their lesser geared/skilled guildmates through a mythic raid for fun.