Why is this allowed? You look up manaforge on group finder and 80% of the listings are [WTS] groups.
And if it’s NOT allowed, then what the hell is Blizzard doing? Because they sure are failing to enforce it pretty damn hard.
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Laziness.
A single person with power to act as judge, jury, & executioner popping in occasionally to drop bans would do wonders. Can’t even get a single intern to take 10 minutes a day to do it.
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It’s not. Report them. Blizz does ban waves on them. But they just come back tenfold. It’s not easy to block them or keep them from starting over.
Or use Bad Boy and ignore its existence.
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They make money off all the subs from RMT sellers.
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It isn’t a matter of enforcement being impossible, it’s just that effective enforcement actually costs them money. They’re in a symbiotic relationship with bots/RMT spammers.
If they throttle their effort into ineffectual ban waves, the bots/RMT types get a return on investment, and tithe another sub, and maybe another expansion buy. If they went scorched earth and explicitly tried to make botting non profitable, those commercial RMT entities would leave, or be forced to try and raise prices above blizzards official RMT prices(token).
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Was gonna say this. Was coming to forums because I was watching a Bellular video of a guy that received some weird AI/Outsourced response to losing their BFA rep that told them to fly over a Pandaria mailbox repeatedly. Wanted to see if CS had really gotten that bad and if there were threads.
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I have a screenshot of a farmer and his 20 alts all pounding on the same ore vein exploiting it but blizz wasn’t interested even when I emailed it to them.
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So Blizzard can sell tokens
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Did you expect you’d get invited to regular meetings where they’d update you on their investigation?
I at least expected a “thanks we’re looking into it” like other platforms have the courtesy of offering.
edit: it was pretty fascinating to watch also. You could easily determine how they were exploiting. there were about a dozen alts all stacked on the same ore node rapidly hitting it with a macro hundreds of time. That would spawn dozens of those ore shards to break off from the node turning 1 node into 100s of ore. They probably make 1000s of ore per hour doing that.
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It is not allowed actually, and Blizzard doesn’t allow for it. Problem is, most of those WTS groups are done on stolen accounts, and they try and use a dirty little tactic to think Blizzard is doing nothing and does allow for it.
But the truth is, they actually do something about it. But they keep coming back on more stolen accounts and continue doing the same thing, repeating the same process. And the reason why they do it is to get players to stop reporting them.
As for the some that do it that are not on stolen accounts, some of those players forget they can not adversitise carries in the Group Finder panel, and are strictly supposed to adversitise there carries for gold in the Trade (Services) channel.
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BS.
There is no way that an appreciable number of bans happen when multiple copies of the same ad for the same site with the same text are constantly posted. They have no fear of getting banned at all.
The tired old line about it being stolen accounts doesn’t fly either. There’s no way THIS MANY stolen accounts are perpetually floating around out there. They don’t need stolen accounts when RMT easily pays the bill of creating a new spam account every 6/8/never months.
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you can sell raid runs you need to be the one running it.
if you see a lvl 1 or a www report that
If there are many people doing RMT transactions to fund boosting, then there are either accounts being compromised in the process, credit cards being compromised, or both. They don’t only use stolen accounts, but the credit card info idiots give them as well.
Stolen accounts are used by bots, not spammers. Bots want to fly under the radar without forking over real $, they operate in gold.
RMT runners have $ and spammers by definition operate in the open, they do not need legitimate-looking accounts at all.
Spend time in Customer Support forums, and you’ll see that this comment is entirely incorrect.
A lot of Blizzard accounts get hacked into every day, due to multiple factors: Poor security, buying gold or items from third party websites for real life money, phishing scams, etc. To say that there isn’t that many stolen accounts is like saying nobody breaks any of Blizzard’s policies at all.
And final cherry on top:
Which means if people stop buying gold or items from these third party websites, then this wouldn’t all be happening.
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I have to figure out how to work that one.
and example would be your name minus the s
are a few
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Huh? Did you reply to the wrong person?
was you talking about the mod or the ban thing syn was talking about
if the add on then ignore the post