I would agree and not because I want any of that in the game but like you said it will end up being something along these lines or the farmers, and no one wants to deal with that !
it is the sad truth but people will find away to bend or break the rules if there is a demand for it, and it will be relentless. Seen it happen on every game. I mean really $0.03 for a million credits on another game?!? I don’t even see that being remotely profitable but there I was watching general chat and hours roll on they are spamming it ~WTS~ Cheap yadda yadda yadda…
This. Who’s to say that once you mail the person the gold on one server, they just run away laughing and not mail you gold on the other server. It’s not like mailing a piece of gear with a c.o.d. on it.
Same deal for the nuts attempting to purchase names legally or illegally. What’s to say the holder of the name doesn’t just laugh at you and not delete their toon after you send the money. (Or take the name you released but not pay you.)
I don’t think it’ll screwup the server economy since someone will have had to do the work of farming up that much gold and the gold will be in the economy at that point. I do think people are setting themselves up to be scammed.
I don’t know if people posting these risky trading ideas are asking to be scammed or trying to prime other people for their scams…
(I’m fine with free name-trading among friends and guildies, since nobody can lose any money or anything and it was a nice gesture to help people who had trouble getting their names though.)
And when a buyer sends gold on one server and receives nothing on the other server, Blizzard can just shrug and the player can still grind. Maybe some transactions will succeed, but I’d imagine most won’t.
Generally speaking it seems really dumb for people to send gold or money in a non-retractable way and trust the other side will send anything back. Like those guys selling cars on ebay who have you tell them some gift card codes in exchange for the car title… Ha…
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I want to know if items can be bought for gold. ‘x’ item comes up on classic auction house- but the person has no gold - will it be allowed for a person to buy that item from that person by paying them on retail.
Also I would love to know about gold transferring between accounts, i.e. family and friends within classic. If I give my friend 50g will I have to worry about being nabbed for ‘gold selling’.
Also OP your rate is way off - you won’t get 1000g for 1 million. There are people with 100s of million of gold who will pay 1 million for 50g classic.
Their answer seems pretty clear to me.
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So I would say it’s legal and here’s why.
No gold in this way is being generated. What I mean by that is the 1k gold you got on classic was still 1k gold, all it did was exchange hands. The 1m gold on retail did the same thing.
No gold was created for this, it keeps the economy the exact same, it’s not as if 1k gold just appeared on the server all it did was go to a different toon.
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From what I understood of the blue,
if you buy gold from pro gold sellers = banhammer.
if you exchange gold with another player who hasnt made that gold through scam = blizz not responsible and if you get banned, you get banned. in this case you are dependant that the other player earned his gold and did a honest transaction with you. if something is not right, you won’t have your account left.
example.
you are Player A. You decide to exchange or buy gold from player B.
Now if p[layer B earned his gold leveling so it depends if this transaction is caught by blizz and you depend on whatever action there may or may not be.
Lets say the gold player B gave you was hacked by him from player c d and e. Naturally they reported the hack, blizz followed the gold trail and it ended up with you = byebye.
YESSSSSS! I must haves is Precious.
bumping for blue
No way, I’m not rich or anything but the game time isn’t even that expensive, lots of people can easily spare 15 bucks a month. But getting an epic mount will be a huge time investment was more costly than 7 months of game time imo.
This guy gets it. It’s not about the number, it’s about the act.
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This is completely within TOS.
It does not bring artificial gold into the economy, and does not sell in game items for real world money.
Blizzard cannot prevent people from making “friendship deals” across the two games. It is no different than one guy saying… hey I’ll come help you level in Classic if you come help me level in BfA.
While this MIGHT have negative impact on the game… that doesn’t make it against ToS.
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I am not sure what you mean ‘artifical gold’ - sure the gold is already in the economy and you are just shifting it around from player to player but the same thing applies to gold sellers. That isn’t a basis to determine whether something is against the ToS or not.
By linking the two games under one sub fee, blizzard is sort of creating a problem but they can also decide to treat this as a violation of the ToS since gold in the current game can be used for items of real $ value, i.e. tokens. There actually was information from blizzard as to that.
A game token costs 150,000g; there’s no way 1000g in classic is going to be valued at over a million gold in retail. Especially after the first couple months, it’ll settle down quite a bit.
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Still no answer
Where is the blue post at?
This thread demonstrates WHY we need a blue post NOW. Rules are very vague. Some people believe that it is allowed; others says it will likely get your account banned.
We don’t want a situation where behavior that is likely to occur is unknown whether players will get banned or not. People spend countless hours and money on their character, so a ban is a very serious and impactful thing.
A quick blue post could easily clear this up.
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Agreed just about all the posts are 100% fine or 100% violation
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If that were true, there’d be a lot more people punished. Trades get discussed outside the game as well as inside it.