No, it is simple. They broke KNOWN LONG STANDING code of conduct for the game, they are being punished accordingly. If you were stupid enough to not stop and think -
‘is buying an item that shouldn’t be free from the vendor and repeatedly selling it back to vendors for profit, considered cheating?’,
You deserve every bit of that ban. It’s not rocket science to work something so basic out as being a bug/exploit, it’s not hard to ignore it and move along without abusing it. This is fully deserved.
Nothing you could say would convince me otherwise and is likely mostly invalid simply because you feel cheaters deserve slack. And wouldn’t be alone in this thinking.
I’ve heard of plenty of people getting banned, but keeping their gold.
If buying gold ran a serious threat to losing your gold after getting caught it wouldn’t be so prevalent. Even then I hear people just tend to buy in small enough amounts that detection risk is low.
Yeah the IQ Test was for Blizz, leaving crap like that in an rehash of a 15 year old game and they still can’t get it right. Ban people who bought gold for 3 days but ban people who capitalized on Blizzard’s mistake for 180+ days. Makes sense.
The gold has to be removed and people have to be punished. The bans themselves were most likely automatic. Blizzard will go through the logs and review the bans.
There were dozens of people on every server just sitting at the NPC printing gold for hours. All of that gold must be tracked and removed. Which is difficult because many people bought stuff with it. This isn’t an easy problem to solve, and Blizzard can’t just do nothing.
While it was Blizzard’s fault, only an idiot would believe Blizzard was going to allow thousands of players to print tens of thousands of gold each by exploiting an obvious bug.
I feel no sympathy for the people who got banned. Except the ones who actually did nothing wrong.
I think gold buyers should be punished just as harshly. I also think Blizzard has overall done a terrible job with this phase rollout and TBC in general.
I’m still glad to see them lay the smackdown on those people.
nah if blizzard actually cared bots would never make it past lvl 65
if it was an actual full time job. it would be entirely too easy to just go into SP / MT and ban 90% of active bots every single day.
if on the off-chance that fresh 58 in full communal gear doing stuff they probably would have no idea how to do was an actual real person. they could appeal. i highly doubt most bots don’t appeal and just buy a new account.
Blizzard is on its way to the ground and i honestly can’t wait for it to collapse so all my friends are finally forced to go play another game and hopefully by a developer that cares.
