This is the only way.
They can already tell who bought it.
If you didn’t buy it they just take it away and send you a message.
If you did buy it they take it away and ban you for a few days/weeks.
It’s been 20 years.
People know buying gold is cheating.
It’s always been cheating.
This is super common.
It is as common as Strath boosters… You do realize all the strat boosters fly hack right? They literally have to.
I don’t have a link anymore, but the botters can do some wild things. I know without actual proof it doesn’t mean much but I am big swearing to you, I’ve seen videos from tbc classic of bots literally unmounted, walking in the air, from netherstorm ground level up to the botanica, so they can zone in and pick the herbs.
It was a known issue of bots being level 68 (so no flying mount) zoning into botanica and farming. And there was no summoning on the floating ships in netherstorm during tbc classic. You had to have a flying mount to reach them.
It being named Botanica is pretty on point.
We made that joke loads. I’m pretty sure it was still semi-relevant in wrath.
The bots have been creative during classic. 5 man strat bot runs to flood the ah with righteous orbs. Black lotus farming with hacks and drip feeding the economy flowers to drive lotus prices through the roof. BRD pickpocket botting. Botanica botting with hacks+whatever they do that let them put literal stairs on their end so they could just walk up to the instance. The DK botting in bg’s.