Just posting this for those that haven’t seen it. Gold swaps are no longer unsupported. They are prohibited.
With the ability to put gold into the warbank it no longer is necassary for players to risk using another party to move gold off a “dead realm” (in their eyes) to their own.
So this is just a win as it attempts to stop gold sellers via more modern means (closing loopholes).
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Won’t keep me from asking quitters on forums if I can have their gold
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It goes further than that. The wording is so ambiguous that it basically outlaws trading gold to anyone across realm or faction, regardless of whether you actually know them or not. It’s a sledgehammer approach to combat illicit trades and scams, but also just extremely goofy. People who have friends across realms that might loan gold or something of that nature would easily get caught up in this with no idea it wasn’t allowed, since the in-game trade window literally allows it.
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While this definitely does say that, I am extremely confused by one part:
Trading gold across WoW realms or factions… is prohibited.
Being able to trade gold cross-server and cross-faction was explicitly put into the game back in SL and DF. Is that now illegal but still programmed directly into the game?
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That’s really my main issue with it. If they want to make this policy change then they either need to update the functionality of the trade window to reflect it, or something should be communicated in-game about the change (or at least on the launcher). Many players don’t read this type of stuff on a regular basis to know.
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It’s probably meant for classic but they forgot the wording
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I fully agree. My assumption is that this isn’t intended to apply to retail, only the classic eras where you cannot trade cross-faction or cross server.
Agreed, it seems likely.
However, the way it is right now doesn’t say that, so, I’m now effectively told that it’s a ban-worthy offense to buy a potion from a guild member instead of using a crafting order. Which just can’t be right logically
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I can only hope…
Edit to clarify: I was trying to make a joke reference to how many threads we see of people complaining about selling gear in raids. And failed 'cause I haven’t had my coffee today. Sorry! lol
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They need to clarify this more. The wording is confusing and makes it seem like trading anyone gold on different realms is bannable.
I trade lots of gold to multiple people on various realms. Whether BOE sale cuts for raid team, giving gold to someone that needs help with game time, or just being generous. Like… within the past two weeks I gave an ex guildie 500k to help out, I gave two guildies around 600k for BOE sale cuts, I gave a random LFR guy 10k, gave a random person enough for a token (~230k) when they only needed like 5k and had been begging in general chat (might be a scam, but meh).
Like - I have plenty of gold and can afford to give away a bunch without even dipping dangerously low. I enjoy doing it. Am I at risk because of this?
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You can only hope what? That they go back to the archaic, worse, way?
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I also wonder if this is an attempt to crack down on people in a PUG rolling need on everything and then trying to sell it if they win, because that would seem to apply to Blizzard’s terms now.
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You hope that it is a rules violation to buy a health pot from a guild member instead of leaving the raid to go get them? Why though?
That would be far too much of a sledgehammer for that, it’s likely missed/bad wording
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I don’t think they’re talking about normal trading (eg. I give you a cool doodad and you give me gold for it). They’re more after using it to “move” gold across servers/factions (eg. I give you gold on server A and you give me the same amount of gold on server B).
As others have said, its probably mostly aimed at classic.
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Plus, the far easier option would be to say “no transfer of gold for raid loot”. They’ve done similar in SoD already.
I agree that is the obvious intent. The problem is that it just doesn’t say that because of how poorly worded it is.
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It was a joke based off of the complaint threads from people selling items in raids.
No… I was referring to how many times we see people complaining about selling raid items.
Hmm. I guess I failed at making that clear. I haven’t had my coffee yet today. LOL
I’ll fix that.
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Oh, I see. To be fair I am awful at tone reading, my bad my bad
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That is where I was going with it!! My guild is about half and half with horde and alliance players, we trade supplies, equipment, gold for repayment and materials all the time, I mean most of it is done in in an instance if it is cross faction but that is the only way to trade face to face… But its totally fine to have players from all different servers and both factions to be in a guild together???
I get the whole not being allowed to trade gold to one guy to get gold in classic wow. They are different games and should be treated as such. But trading from my toon, who is horde, to my spouse’s toon, who is alliance, on the same server is not allowed? That’s a bit much. Not to mention that moving gold from one server to another is a mute point since you can easily do that via the warbank… Just make a toon somewhere else and all your gold can now be moved there…
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