This is actually misinformation.
It is against Blizzard’s TOS, which can result in a ban or other punitive action, but it is not “illegal”. You cannot be arrested, charged, or convicted of anything.
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Blizzard doesn’t ignore this stuff. They do what they can to take these sites down, but most of the time they are out of Blizzard’s reach. Blizz has pumped so much money and effort into combating these folks but it’s generally an uphill, reactionary battle just by the nature of the business. If you should be upset at anybody, it should be your friends who are giving the companies that do this shady nonsense business.
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You should remove your quotation, as it is the only remaining visible link to the site that the OP removed from his post.
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Oh please, people understood what i ment, don’t being so uptight about the wording.
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Good call. Rhank you.
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You put way too much faith in random people on the internet’s comprehension skills.
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People just frequently confuse Blizzard’s TOS with actual, real life laws. That’s all.
Private servers are another example. It’s actually completely “legal” in every sense of the word to play on them. It’s running them that can cause potential issues, but even then it depends on your country as many countries do not deem it illegal. All Blizzard can do is take them to court and hope piracy laws apply in that jurisdiction.
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Imagine snitching on your friends
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i know a guldy that got banned just 1 month into classic for buying 100g. his classic account got banned for 6 or more months. they can find out you did it.
You are a rat got it.
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It is what it is bro. This is kind of the mindset of a lot of modern gamers. Pretty much any other game you download throws in game purchases that make the game easier in your face everytime you login. No surprise that a lot of modern gamers are conditioned to use methods like this to speed things up.
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You buy gold got it.
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I don’t really think sitting on your rump playing a video game, regardless of what you’re doing could be considered “busting your butt”.
I would never buy gold, because I’m not financially sound enough in my real life to ever justify something that stupid, plus I enjoy the challenge of doing it for myself, but I don’t really care what other people do. Hundreds of people buy gold, and it hasn’t affected me at all, so I really don’t care.
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It has affected you though. Buying 3rd party gold, items, and accounts are the reasons why games have cash shops built right into them.
Furthermore because of those cash shops being such a huge source of revenue. The game devs no longer care if a game is finished at launch or “fixed” a year later. As long as that cash shop keeps the whales swiping their credit cards.
It not only affects individual players. It has changed the quality of gaming, customer service, and even the types of games these companies release. All because players will spend that extra money in that cash shop.
It’s way more than 100’s. Player behavior. Not player complaints is what has driven changes.
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its not easy for blizzard to prove you gave money for gold. someone giving it to you isnt stone cold proof you paid them
You can report the website to Blizzard directly using hacks@blizzard.com
Pretty much yes, though it may not be when you expect it. Real money trade, exchanging real world cash with a third-party for in-game goods or services is a violation of Blizzard’s terms.
Now, can it seem like someone has gotten away with it? Absolutely. Blizzard is reactive. They don’t investigate all in-game gold exchanges. They have various internal alarms / flags that trigger investigations, and they don’t act until they’ve collected the information they need. If someone gets an account action two months after, they tend to go “But I didn’t do anything; I’m innocent” because they’re so sure they got away with what they did a couple months before.
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and i dont think what you think or dont about me is important
One of the best things about the WoW token is that it will eliminate threads like this.
Blizz doesn’t have to prove anything. If they deem a transaction from player to player as being something more than a “gift” they make that call.
No. They don’t want a bunch of false positives. The problem is the time/money it takes for blizz to ascertain whether or not anything does indeed require sanctions.
In the end. Blizz was paying money to lose money and the overwhelming scale that players buy gold. It was a losing battle. So instead of doubling down and making penalties harsher on players buying.
Blizz threw in the towel and started their own cash shop. Soon after they started brokering gold sales. Complete with their own crypto currency to sell their real life products.
Genius really. I can’t deny that. I’m not on that side though. I watched this industry from a player’s perspective for 3 decades.
Today’s gaming is bad. It’s more about milking the consumer than it is putting out good products.
We see that with every release where they ignore mountains of feedback before it even goes live and still release broken games. Layering ring a bell? Bfa? Refunded?
When I was a lad. Looking to the future of gaming was pretty exciting. Machines were getting stronger. Graphics better. Nerds were coming out of the woodwork. Good times. Now?
We preorder the next craptastic broken on release to get the next reskinned sparkle pony that the hype machine told us was the coolest thing in the world and complain to deaf devs that the game is broken. While swiping our credit cards to refill our in game coffers or get the next color of sparkle pony… but hey. the pony is shiny doe…
Yea. I didn’t see this coming the first time i read about VR…
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i dont agree here im having fun in new games with cash shops, i just dont use them. destiny is pretty great for a free game with transactions. you dont need them
they have a season pass, its less than the 15 a month for wow