Trade Services is a disaster zone

[Vortimer-proudmoore]

@Puré-area-52

Seeing how many people would not defend trade chat for its original purpose Blizzard settled with making Trade (Services).

I don’t think Trade Services was created because people wanted to socialize in Trade Chat. Social chat probably belongs in General, not Trade, but just my opinion.

The WoW team explicitly wanted to clean up Trade Chat to primarily isolate those selling carries for gold to a new channel dedicated to that type of “service” thereby removing what others considered spam from Trade Chat. The rules about such carries for gold are pretty explicit and pinned to the top of General Discussion.

New Services Advertisement Policy

This week the 9.2.7 update introduces the new chat channel: Trade (Services). The Trade (Services) chat channel is used for searching and advertising services like raiding, dungeons, or PvP activities, keeping the original Trade chat channel available for traditional buying and selling of items and profession services. With the separation of trade services into its own chat channel, a new policy will take place. Any boosting, carrying, or other similar services offered for gold that’s advertise…

Policy Update for Organized In-Game Services -- January 2022

As the conditions change by which various entities operate in World of Warcraft, we are compelled to update our policies to further our goal of making the gameplay experience as fair and welcoming as possible. Since we last updated our policies, we have found that an increasing disturbance of the gameplay experience has been caused by organizations excessively advertising various non-traditional services in-game. As of today, we will now prohibit organizations who offer boosting, matchmaking, e…