The fact RMT groups are still rampant in LFG for months now and blizzard has done nothing noticeable nor told the player base ANYTHING about how they are going to address it?
Seriously they cant do anything vs an openly advertising real cash group that’s poxing LFG M+ and raid searches with its nonsense?
So is it fine to RMT or is it not blizzard? Because you at HQ don’t seem to be doing anything about it…
Sigh rant… over its just getting ridiculous on how they are just ignoring it. 
I mean, they do suspend/bans these accounts, there’s just so many willingly buyers that they finance more accounts to continue advertising. There is no simple “just fix it”.
This is an issue with a LONG history. And as long as these people have a following among the playerbase they will keep making new accounts and doing the same thing no matter how many times Blizz bans them.
Coming back to retail for a look after playing SoD for 3 months made me realise just how bad RMT was. SoD bots and gold selling has got nothing on retail, the spam in retail is insane.
STOP BUYING THE SERVICES!
That’d probably help for starters. So many lazy RMT’ers in games these days.
Best to remove the name. Free advertising for them.
I easily reported 25+ every hour… It has gotten so bad, if they are banning them then it’s not noticable at all.
This, and who cares. I’ve played the game since vanilla and have never been affected by these services.
Eh I guess in a way blizzard did make this a thing when they allowed buying wow token for gold then using gold to buy a carry… So now it’s skipping the gold buying from blizz and paying 3rd parties.
This cuts into blizzards profits rather then buy the token they just buy services. Who really knows the long term of it. Really in the end it depends if n how the community sees it now… Use to be considered cheating.
Games already lost a lot of its integrity so sure Uncle Ruckus I guess we shouldn’t care, not effecting us immediately and personally ATM so just ignore it and let it continue what’s a bit more lost integrity of a game til no one gives a hoot anymore.
That’s called apathy, and Apathy can be defined as a state of indifference and the inability to act. We lack motivation and also the ability to care that we are unmotivated.
If this becomes the major attitude of wow then you never get back those who leave. You’re unconcerned with this shows apathy, this RMT is harmful for wow but we’ve gotten so use to nothing being done and beaten down by all the nonsense through the years there’s plenty degrees of apathy in wow now.
Think really perhaps that apathy has hit the devs and maybe they no longer even care. The thought of that worries me most.
Because the RMT advertisers make enough money to keep spinning up new accounts (often with stolen credit cards) and posting another ad.
The only way to get rid of them is for the trade to stop being profitable.
They fully condone and endorse botting. The proof is in the pudding.
But what flavour pudding is it?
Executive bonuses.
Ah. Yes I know that flavour.
The real joke is being able to here everyone’s “horn” I mean tuba
The people pointing out that it’s a problem aren’t the ones buying the services. You’re preaching to the wrong crowd.
It literally doesn’t matter. Thinking Blizzard are completely oblivious to this isn’t going to help anyone. They know what’s going on in their game.
This is a problem that predates WoW itself and every single MMO ever has a huge, huge problem with bots, kinda like how every competitive game ever has a major cheater/hacker problem.
Blizzard bans these accounts in waves and they report bans in the literal hundreds of thousands EVERY MONTH; the thing is, every time you cut off one head, about ten more pop up in its place. Once Blizzard started actively reporting how many bots/RMT accounts they ban every single month literally everyone should’ve immediately realized how many bots there are in games like this; there are literally 200k to 250k accounts banned for botting or RMT every single month. I don’t think some of y’all realize just how bonkers of a number that truly is.
Maybe if morons didn’t engage in RMT there wouldn’t be a market for this sort of stuff and it would all just disappear.
And since that’s 200-250k paid subscriptions, they’re not going to truly take a stand against them for the same reason the ruling class don’t take a stand against offshore tax havens.
…the accounts literally get banned. As in, they’re gone.
I genuinely don’t know how anyone can be so stupid that they could EVER argue that permanently banning a quarter of a million accounts every month isn’t “truly taking a stand against them.” I think it’s pretty obvious that they’re taking a stand against bots.