You were done a favor, by not being banned already for laundering bot money.
The only reason to be worried about a warning is if they plan on continuing to do GDKPs.
Otherwise there is literally zero reason to care.
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If I worked for Blizzard you would not be able to make this post right now lol
laundering bot money.
If you want to argue that GDKPâs are actually against the rules AS OF THIS MOMENT. Then I concede to your schizo babble defense.
I donât work for blizzard.
You understand what a warning is for.
So many disingenuous posters in this thread that donât care and just want people who didnât even break the rules banned. Participating in a GDKP before P2 is allowed. Participating in a GDKP when phase 2 starts is not allowed. This clear cut.
Why is a warning being applied to my account when I didnât break any rules? I wouldnât give a damn if warnings didnât count as an action.
This is an action. Period. If I do something wrong in the future now arbitrarily (WHICH THIS 1000% IS) then I will get a ban.
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Idk why you feel the need to gaslight. A warning is used in MMOâs as a ladder penalty before actual suspensions start being applied. Losing your âwarningâ is a punishment. Have you heard of the 3 strikes law in California? Itâs the same as getting a strike added.
Ok, lets see you gaslight your way out of this one.
The GDKPs themselves are not technically against the rules until tomorrow, no, but the purchase for gold for real money and then the knowing acceptance of purchased gold in exchange for services are both against the rules, and thatâs basically all GDKP transactions. The only difficulty is comprehensively proving it enough to justify taking action, which Blizzard was unwilling to hire people to do because theyâd rather buy more yachts for Bobby and the shareholders.
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None of this is true at all btw, this kind of sweeping generalist assumption is very silly when itâs trivially easy to see how inconsistent punishments are for basically everything in the gameâs TOS.
No one is getting banned. This is a warning.
Donât want to get banned, then donât do GDKPs in the future. Itâs that simple.
The fact youâre so worried tells me you plan on doing them. If you didnâtâŚthereâs nothing to worry about.
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So how does this help the conversation at all? If you canât even admit GDKPâs are allowed as of right now, then thereâs no moving the conversation forward.
Industrial relations law.
And you have no self respect if you think itâs okay for companies to make knowingly false accusations that you are engaging in âexploitativeâ and âinappropriateâ behaviour. Nobody is having a cry - OP made a fair observation that this is bad customer service and Blizzard shills are racing to defend Blizzard because they donât like GDKPs.
I could write a much politer and less accusatory email thay conveys the same message about the change of rules in five minutes. Itâs not hard.
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They are allowed right now, they just functionally wouldnât exist the way they have if Blizzard put in the effort to ban RMT the way they should.
WhatâŚwhat did I just read? How many times does OP need to say they arenât disputing that they ran in a GDKP. Warnings, as it has been said several times now, are the first step in a punishment system. It isnât limited to 90% of MMOs either. 90% of anything where a punishment or citation can be issued a warning is the first step. This isnât a pro or anti- GDKP thread or argument or debate if that is what some of you call a debate.
The problem is the wording. It is worded in such a way that is sounds like a citation on a currently legal activity. The worry is that this citation means the next step is a harsher punishment on either a real or false report, since it has been shown many times that false reports can and will happen on the regular. Clarification is needed for everyone that received the letter. Is it an actual warning or is it just informative and a reminder/notice to anyone who lives under a rock and has no access to the internet.
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Nope, itâs pretty straight forward if youâve ever played MMOâs.
Do something bad ->Possible discretionary warning->ban short duration->ban longer duration ->Repeat until perma applied.
This 100%. Donât worry though nobody is gonna read this and just remind everyone in the thread that GDKPs are bad and if youâre worried about this at all you are planning on running them in phase 2 DEFINATELY.
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Read main post. I attended 1 GDKP end of phase, cause guild went on break till phase 2.
But you have been engaging in exploitative and inappropriate behavior, thatâs what GDKPs are. That behavior just wasnât against the rules until now, so theyâre warning you that you better not keep doing it if you donât want to be punished for it going forward.
This is really simple stuff, it shouldnât take this much explanation to drill into your heads.
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Why are you worried about a ânext stepâ?
Then donât break the rules. If you do, you may get banned.
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Read main post.