Hypothetically speaking of course, just my best guess here obviously 
but bots are why people get caught when they buy gold.
If it was me and again this is all hypothetical ofc, id buy/rent property in say Venezuela and then hire people to manually farm gold or do say like r14 boosts or leveling boosts etc.
All hand farmed, no bots, all clean gold which is how you avoid bans for you and your customers.
Obviously all hypothetical ofc
Who’s buying the gold?
30,000+ Fresh players.
Or you run bots that cost nothing 
So you’d region lock your own region out of wow? Doesn’t sound like a great idea
Where did i say anything about region locking?
Well if they are the cheaters and you want them off your servers, you’d have to region lock your own population off US servers
Us Aussies will look after it for you🇦🇺
But the bots aren’t on US servers playing from inside the US? Are you okay?
Bro has gotten desperate trying to find a way around region locking.
Well they are
And it’s your own population cheating by buying the gold
And no, I’m just stating how stupid that idea is when it’s your own population cheating
Its your population cheating too…
Gold is cheap because labor costs are cheap.
Theres more rmt gold in circulation on fresh than legit gold.
Yeah pretty much. Small price to pay imo.
Clearly this would cut in to your profits.
Its a business to you
But they wouldn’t be able to buy gold cheaply if there weren’t thousands of bots from outside of the US? Are you stupid?
Like, you realize the RMT issue is exacerbated by the fact 1k gold is barely more than an hour of min wage work? You understand it’s that cheap because there’s a ton of bots farming gold right?
Gold is farmed or botted by people in cheap to live countries like Venezuela.
They make a killing because 30,000 people are buying off them and paying US currency.
Everyone’s population does
You don’t stop people cheating by region locking
You also don’t stop it by bringing in more demand for botted gold
They want our money because it’s got an amazing conversion rate to their home currency usually.
Yep, and then you add in countries with high disposable incomes. They target them even more.
Just look at the state of gdkps on oceanic servers
You can stop most of the botting by region locking. You championed the GDKP ban because it would kill RMT, you said that a year ago. It didn’t. So why you not interested in actually hitting RMT directly with a region lock?
What are you afraid of gold seller?
You can probably count the amount of people running bot farms in the US on one hand since it pays less than minimum wage
See that’s funny because none of us play on OCE servers and would literally not care if OCE players couldn’t come to NA servers. If you have such an awful cheating problem on your servers why would you not want region locking to keep them there? You trying to ruin the game for everyone else?
You’re the one who keeps complaining about all the problems on OCE servers. Maybe they should stay there.
Yeah but you cant pay americans to hand farm gold to sell, thats where the other countries come in.
You can pay them a few dollars and they make more farming gold for 10 hours a day than they do doing an actual job…
Gold sellers are using other countries labor to make massive profits…this isnt new info man…
Hes saying if you region lock you cut out the people farming gold since Americans wont do that for a job its not profitable enough to pay someone $15/hour to farm gold.
For refrence:
Venezuela’s official minimum wage is set at 130 bolívares, which is approximately $1.68 USD per month as of May 2025.
Imagine you pay someone literally $1/hour to farm gold in US currency lmfao