law overrides a EULA…why you trollin me
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Meh, couldn’t resist that one. I was joking around with the whole “Blizzard’s gold selling partners” thing.
Realistically, I’m not quite sure how you’d determine whether someone bought gold or not, but I can imagine that if there is some data (and even meta data) associated with transactions in-game, it would be possible to have trigger-warnings for suspicious transactions, and not entirely too difficult to track down gold-buying.
You can easily track in-game transactions (trade, mail, and AH) but the issue is there is no data that can be traced between a 3rd party site and in-game. So you could flag a transaction as suspicious but you could never prove that the person themselves caused the suspicious transaction.
Which is why I said if I wanted to get someone banned, I would just buy gold on their behalf. Send them enough gold to where it looks suspicious and boom. Unless blizzard starting running malware in the background that scraped data from my google chrome they have to use their best judgement to 50/50 guess whether I bought gold or not.
The people they succeed in banning are usually people who bought multiple times because it’s unlikely to be abused at that point. No one bought 1000 gold for you 12 times. Well…hopefully not lol.
OP is level 58 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Unfortunately Activision/Blizzard views bots and gold RMT’ers as “paying customers”, just as they do with all their subscribers. Can you imagine how badly it would affect their second quarter earnings statement to actually ban the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people who bot, buy/sell gold, or otherwise exploit the game?
It just isn’t profitable for Activision/Blizzard to police their servers in any meaningful way. Besides, keeping IN the RMT’ers allows them to justify bringing in the WoW token to “combat” it. 
Thanks.
well that and most sites like these use paypal. Which as the buyer you’d want to use anyway to not have CC data dangling out there.
So then people would just buy more the first two times.
People would learn not to accept gold if they didn’t know where it was coming from. If there is a random 1k gold in the mail you weren’t expecting just hit return.
It would be super easy. Transactions are logged so all you have to do is have the system flag when a character receivers over a certain amount of gold in a given time. When this happens a GM goes through their history to see where the gold came from.
If they sold a nifty drop on the AH then good for them. If they sold a piece of trash for 5k gold or received a gift from a guildless level 1 then its pretty obvious.
I really don’t think afking BGs is perma-worthy.
Buying gold though? Oh yeah, instant perma ban.
Those are very good extreme examples, but realistically you’d have many different types of transactions. And what level of skill are you expecting the reviewer to have that the job title requires a deep enough understanding of the gold-value of items in game?
This seems like it could be a pretty expensive problem.
With all that deluxe edition money they can probably hire some guys to do manual reviews
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That’s a very good point Zuggerino! Indeed, maybe that’s actually the intended purpose of those mounts.
Just bring out the wow token already… so people can have something else to cry about.
I would so buy wow tokens! =)
This tells me that you want to have access to gold via cash. What would you use that gold for? Perhaps if we can define a problem, we could envision potential solutions.
I absolutely hate farming… and if you want to raid/pvp you need gold to pay for respecs/pots/repairs.
I usually dont spend gold on anything so the gold I have is from the you get from raids. lol I dont use flask often. =)
Yeah, I hear ya!
I’ve been hosting GDKPs, which is an OK way to farm gold, if you do it for raids where you don’t need anything (or even if you do, as long as you don’t bid too high). But it’s a lot of work, and on some of the lower tier raids, like ZG/AQ20/Ony/MC can be not very good GPH at all.
BWL+ is a little better, but you also need stricter gear requirements on carries, and a time commitment. It does provide a way to earn gold while raiding through, which can be sort of nice. And actually great, depending on preferred class and spec!
Never thought I would agree with a boostie. Good post.
…yeah, but it would teach idiots with learning disabilities like myself how seriously jerks like you take it, and give me a chance to get back in line
As for buying more the first two times…explain how that changes anything at all.