Had a group of guildies find their first BoE epic last night, super excited about it they all decided one person would sell and split the profit amongst themselves. Turned out to be about 30g each, so the seller quickly divided up the money and mailed it to the respective members.
Now that person is banned as of this morning.
How does this make sense? They were doing nothing wrong, they are a dedicated member of a social raiding guild and have been playing with us since near the start of SoD. I am confident there wasn’t any additional “bannable” behavior behind the scenes.
They’re a key raider for our squad who was supposed to go in to raid tonight, and now we’re all screwed due to this automated BS that punishes players for selling items on the auction house?.. my understanding is that the punishment is from obtaining gold from someone who didn’t get it the right way - but how is the seller supposed to have ANY control over that when using the AH? Just not use it?
Letting us use the AH period is enabling gold buyers to profit then, and blizzard is at fault for this by that logic.
This needs to be fixed now. You can’t punish a seller based on an unknown buyer - there’s no way to know who would be buying an item you found when selling on the AH. So if the intent is to punish gold buyers - even people who didn’t buy gold are being punished by playing the game and selling legit drops.
What’s next? Bans for getting levels and exp?