If a player was to use a pay with real money carried or gear upgrade from a website Blizzard takes action, and such a player receives a permanent ban.
However, does Blizzard ever go after those sites that offer these services, or is it left to players to not make the choice?
Is there nothing that can be done against these sites?
What’re you trying to buy? 
There’s not a lot to be done about them. They’ve had some rare ocassional wins, but they are not being operated by people in countries they can go after very efficiently.
Moreover, even if they could I’ve always been of the opinion to punish the buyers the most. You buy gold and get a week ban at worst and you’ll keep doing it. You get a 6 month or permaban…you’ll greatly diminish the amount of people who woll participate and risk it.
But Blizzard doesn’t cause they’ll lose subs.
I been reading WoW related posts on FB, and it’s logic is to spam pay sites at me. So, wonder if Blizzard just doesn’t care if they advertise on FB?
They don’t really need to, all those sites are scams and nobody falls for them
Sure I will pre-pay $300 USD, and then give you my account information, totally you’re going to play my character to KSM, not just log in and steal all my gold to sell on some other third party website
For the same reason nigerian prince schemes still exist if a scam still exists it’s because it’s working. Moreover, they like to make their scams obvious enough that an average person can tell it’s not legit…because then only the less intellectually gifted people are the ones that engage with them.
Could Blizzard tell sites like FB to not advertise pay sites? Or, is that a fair use, free speech issues?
Then again you see things like this happening
I think it’s hilarious that some sites and trade chat (services) spammers will claim to sell timed M+25 carries, the top players in the world have done an untimed 22
People who fall for them also deserve to be scammed because they are trying to cheat.
At least not getting in-game spam in my mail box for money for gold. They came back in DF, but not had any in BfA.
Sending you a letter from my Susan Express character shortly
Possibly but Idk whom at Blizzard would consider it their job to actually do that. If it cut into profits execs would make it someone’s job, but I don’t think these ads cut into their profits at all. Maybe if people would buy some carry with gold from wow tokens and then choose to pay real money for a scam instead. Also, maybe players unsubscribe over getting scammed which is lost sub money. However I don’t think they lose enough money that way for it to be profitable to go after these sites and their ads.
I think the issue with going after many of these websites is that they’re based in countries that either couldn’t care less about US laws or are obscured by multiple layers of fake accounts, addresses or even people.
Blizz don’t police the internet my guy. They can only go after people in their own game when the rules are broken.
Sure if you want some foreign group whos already doing wrong to have your payment information and get access to your account.
Most people have the common sense not to trust sellers of services in a game for real money which is against the rules.
They also apparently make enough that if they are caught they just make new accounts. The actual problem is players are so lazy to play the game themselves they pay these shady groups. They wouldn’t be doing it if it wasn’t profitable.
But truth is those encouraging it only make it worse.
They don’t make new accounts. They don’t even have their own accounts. They use stolen player accounts. These groups have massive numbers of accounts they can use. If they need to “pay” for them, they use stolen credit cards.
That too. They strip them of all the gold and sell it to dummies who then get banned and come here claiming “I didn’t know buying gold will get you banned!”
Nope, they won’t do anything about it because it affects their profits. Just like how they don’t proactively do anything about the scammers that have been running rampant in this game for years (and yes, I fell victim to these morons).