I don’t get it. Why not just perma ban everyone that gets caught buying gold or give them like a year ban at the least. People won’t buy if the punishment outweighs the convenience of breaking the ToS
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Because that many permabans would result in roughly that many lost subs.
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People exaggerate how much gold buying occurs. They should absolutely perma ban gold buyers and sellers. Final fantasy manages to police rmt better than Blizzard with millions more people playing the game. Blizzard honestly gets outclassed by square enix in many of ways
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Part of the reason there’s less RMT in FFXIV is because currency is basically useless in it. For all of EW I just spent my questing gold I got on a crafting set for raiding and then just consumables. I did some hunts to sell the stuff you get there and never really needed money for anything else. GDKP’s are also significantly less prevalent in FFXIV due to that same reason. Plus the fact that you can’t really afford to carry deadweight unless you’re severely outgearing the encounter due to how raids are structured
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OG Blizzard was the Gold Standard of the industry, because they were gamers making games for gamers. They sincerely cared, and it showed.
Now, with all of those critical OG people long since gone, Blizzard is just another name over a door. A company staffed by people looking to do just enough not to lose a paycheck. They couldn’t care less about their products, or their players, and it shows.
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Long bans have been shown to force players to simply quit the game. Not only is this massive sub money lost but it creates a snowballing effect that harms the game significantly.
Simply being active and throwing out bans that scale upwards starting at lower lengths of time would be fine. It just requires Blizz to actually put in some effort which seems unlikely at this point.
yay, let’s perma ban all gold buyers/sellers and lose half the player base 
or wait…I’m sorry to say “Half” they’re probably more than half the player base!
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Yep, that is a good question. Seems odd that the penalty for gold buying is a 3 day ban (if that) and (some) of the gold being removed… while afking in AV is an 8 day ban.
If people thought buying gold would get them a month vacation and/or would result in all gold that even MAY have been bought removed they’d be a lot less likely to do it. But since word has gotten out over the last several years of classic that there is absolutely no real penalty for it, people just don’t care anymore.
because facts dont lie, if you perma ban someone they will come back but they are no longer as invested and will cheat even more, vs a temporary suspension. I got caught buying gold 2 years ago, i havn’t bought anymore, i got my 3 days, and don’t want another 3 day or 2 week, so I just stopped, and leveled a paladin for TBC startholme farming instead. Had I been perma banned I likely would have opened a new account and just bought more gold, and likely paid a leveling service. Their method works better.
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You just make an announcement. “I know we’ve been lax but we’re serious now… If you’re caught buying gold you will be banned.” Some people will do it anyway and they’ll get banned, word will travel, and people will stop doing it. Start hitting people with bans long enough that they’re missing raids and I guarantee you people will think twice, especially since its the raiders doing a big % of the gold-buying.
It worked for dual-boxing. It’d work here
it didnt, they tried that during wrath, had a buddy banned for his second time buying gold and getting caught, he bought 20k to buy the mammoth. He got a 1 year suspension. Guess what he came back on a 2nd account and still bought gold, just now in smaller increments and this was in 2009.
Start naming things this company has actually got right lately? When they started selling tokens they actively encouraged players to need/want gold. Botting has always been bad, but never to the point where bot armies sit on every single herb/ore spawn.
Going 1 week → 2 weeks → 1 month → 3 months and removing the gold is more than enough if Blizzard actually is proactive about doing the bans.
Doing 3 month+ bans could legitimately kill the game at this point even with a big announcement. I doubt a statement by Blizz will do much until they actually start proving that they are going to act on it.
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They do a ton of bans… the issue is that its insanely easy to dodge and launder the gold lol.
You are just assuming people are buying it all on their main accounts directly… bruh you got a lot to learn lol
I will take a double baconator and some chili then.
the two week has stopped at least 3 people I know from buying gold, because they either got one, or the 2 weeks meant missing lockouts and getting benched. This is already a deterient. The rest are going to do it anyway.
Lol just completely different circumstances LOL. Just another awful take from ol bearhands.
Multiboxing they detected software, so was easy to ban. People launder gold and use 2nd accounts to move it all around. Come on lol
there are also ways to abuse the system. Want to win server first agasint the guild that got it last raid, well that’s easy send their main tank and a few healers 5k gold via a gold farmer. Those people arn’t responsbile but now they are perma banned.
gold sellers have been in wow since day 1
and they are on every single online game
where theres a market there WILL be sellers
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