Remove Trade/Mail Function

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Let me explain with my story,

I’ve been playing World of Warcraft for almost 14 years. Over that time, I’ve created more than 100 characters across multiple realms, Retail, Classic Wotlk now Cata, Classic_Era, collected a wide range of mounts, achievements, and transmogs—just like many longtime players. When the Anniversary realms launched, I encouraged my guild to start fresh there, and they agreed. I was the first to begin, playing actively for nearly three months before others joined. As expected, I had time to level up, gear my characters, and accumulate some gold.

During this time, something truly special happened—I convinced my wife to try WoW for the very first time. I was beyond thrilled. When she created her first character, I made a new one to level with her, and we linked our accounts through the Recruit-a-Friend program. I was teaching her about game mechanics, exploring the world together, and honestly, it’s been one of the happiest moments of my life.

Our guild slowly came together. We’re a group of about 10 veteran players who have been playing together for nearly a decade. We’re not competitive or hardcore—just passionate about the game’s lore and community. Many of us even own the full Warcraft book collection. We share stories and experiences on Discord and enjoy the game as friends.

As we progressed on the Anniversary realm, sometimes it was just me and my wife leveling together, other times it was the whole guild adventuring side-by-side. Since I was further ahead in terms of resources, I had some gold and items to help everyone out. I had maxed Tailoring and Enchanting (300/300) and was simply trying to support our group and especially my wife as she learned the game.

Then, without warning, during a dungeon run in Zul’Farrak, we were all hit with a 15-day suspension. The email stated we were involved in “real-money trading.” This couldn’t be further from the truth.

We never bought or sold gold or anything else. We’re casual players who aren’t chasing metas or min-maxing. The amount of gold I distributed was around 70 gold per guild member, and my main character was left with under 200 gold. Nearly every member of our guild received the same suspension, despite there being no real-money transactions involved.

I’m writing this both as an appeal and a warning to others: If you have long-time friends in WoW, don’t trade with them. Don’t help them. Don’t share anything. Blizzard may interpret it as suspicious activity. This is extremely disheartening. My account history is clean. You can check my IP, my wife’s IP, our locations, our login history, gold distribution, Auction House logs, and /played time. Everything will show we’re just regular players trying to enjoy the game together.

Now, my wife is saying things like: “I don’t want to play a game that punishes newcomers.” That breaks my heart. I worked so hard to bring her into a world that means so much to me, and now she feels unwelcome.

After nearly 14 years of loyalty to World of Warcraft, for the first time, I feel ashamed and deeply discouraged. I’m even considering quitting altogether because of this.

We’re not gold sellers, exploiters, bots, hacker much less gold buyers. We’re just a group of friends and family creating memories together and helping each other.

Hope this message reaches anyone who’s thinking about helping a friend who’s starting on your realm, think twice be careful.

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The only help I can provide is to tell you to appeal your account actions. That can be accomplished using this link.

Good luck!

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Damn, did you even try appealing before writing this emotionally charged story?
I’m also playing with wife and have been fine trading things and gold since day 1, she trades me almost everything that can be sold, I sell it and trade it back
No issues so far, but hearing those stories always makes me feel uneasy

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you make a convincing case my friend :expressionless:

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So you bought gold and shared it with your friends, getting them banned as well.

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So the best advice is to appeal, and have all your guild mates appeal. That said if you want a bit more clarity, sometimes the blues in the customer support forum will pop in and provide more insight, but understand, they have limit ability to tell you anything extremely specific, and they also can’t escalate or take any actions to restore you or your guild mates accounts, that would require an appeal.

I suspect there is more to the story, than you think, as simply giving gold to people especially if you farmed is not against the rules.

If you do post there, I would recommend a short and concise post, simply saying you were suspended for RMT, but that you are unfamiliar with how it could have happened, also my suggestion would be to submit an appeal both for yourself and your wife first.

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Did you read the post? Why say this? Geez.

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Impressive how people just come here to comment on things that imply my mate is to blame. Repulsive, what has become of this “community”. Revolting, disgusting and unfair. That is not a made-up history; I was there when it happened, the entire guild was watching, we just share resources with our guild with no regard to price or intention of repayment, we have years of tradition in helping each other, sharing our items, gold, time, and even, on more than one occasion, our very own feelings. This man and his beloved wife were the sole reason that I moved here to World of Warcraft. We’ve been playing more than a decade now, and I NEVER saw him violate any of the company rules, we even got then writhed on our Discord channel, and estate that anyone who disobeys Blizzard’s rules will be banned from the channel and from all instances of our guild across the entire of World of Warcraft. To us, following the rules was never a choice, we enforce those with pride and zeal so no one is treated differently. I speak by all members of the “Arautos da Luz”: we expect nothing less than reparation to our brother and his wife, from the company and the community, because if they pack their things and leave, we all leave with them. We don’t play WoW because of WoW, we play because of friendship and brotherhood.

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First, take the advice and put in an appeal.

This sounds like one or more people in your guild did business with someone else who had bought gold, and then you all got the dirty gold and got a suspension for it. Maybe?

Or you or someone in your guild really did buy gold, tried to hide the fact by doing it through a different account/multiple trades/etc, and got everyone actioned as a result.
Now I am not saying that is or is not the case, but it is the other likely scenario I can think of.

So yeah, put in an appeal, and maybe move this post to the CS forum and maybe a blue poster can give a hint as to what caused this (but they can’t always).

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I get that you want to defend them, but understand that a lot of people DO make up lies about what they were suspended for, so people’s criticism is understandable.
Also, nothing said here will matter. Everyone who got suspended needs to put in their own appeals.

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Both my wife and I have submitted our appeals and shared some additional important information about this case. I deeply appreciate all the support we’ve received, and I want to make something very clear: I don’t care about gold in the game—I care about being able to play with good people. You can delete all my items, you can delete my characters just to make me start over—I’ll gladly start from scratch again, as long as I can play with people I care about.

But I believe respect is important, and everyone deserves it.

Even if you combined the gold and items from all of my characters, I still wouldn’t be able to compete for the most desired items in the auction house. Most of my gold came from selling things on the AH and offering enchantments to people in town. I truly can’t believe that anything I did—like sharing enchanted items, bags, or a bit of gold with guildmates—could have had any real impact on the game’s economy.

Meanwhile, I see bots farming freely, multiboxers locking down quest zones, hackers flying around even inside the capital cities, boosters promoting shady websites in chat, and ridiculous items being listed on the auction house. It’s absurd that actions like mine—actions from players with little to no influence over the game—are met with such punishment.

Once again, thank you all for your kind words. I will wait for the response to the appeal tickets and will share the next chapter of this story here soon.

For Azeroth!

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First, it doesn’t matter if you or they are guilty or innocent, nobody on this forum really knows or has all the information, and that includes you. People come to this board all the time and most say I did nothing wrong when hit with an infraction like this, while some really didn’t, we almost always find with the vast majority that something did occur.

In this all we know is that it likely revolved around RMT, which means that somehow they came into contact with “bad gold” and then likely passed it out to everyone. Now they could have knowingly bought gold, or it could have happened unintentionally where they thought they were making clean transactions, but ultimately weren’t, for example as we see happen a lot with gold transfers between servers.

So your first and best option is to appeal, if truly nothing was done that deserved an account action, hopefully the appeal would be reversed, however everyone has to appeal, nobody can appeal on someone else’s behalf.

The second thing, if the suspensions all revolve around one member giving out gold, they could move this ticket to the CS Forum, or create a new post in the CS Forum, where one of the blues can potentially give a bit more insight into what caused the issue. While they can’t impact the investigation in anyway, sometimes this can be valuable if you simply don’t understand what you could have done, and want to avoid making a similar mistake in the future.

Good luck on your appeals.

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