oh thats right, because wow makes RMT of tokens but get nothing when the cash is between 2 players. Wow isnt against boosting, NONE of the streams i follow that literally have " GOLD BOOSTING" in there streams are banned for carries and boosting but rmt is?
Either carries for gold or rmt ruins pvp and arenas or it doesnt. if carries ruins pvp and arena then what does it matter if the transaction was done for real cash or gold? But you banned the RMT but not the gold boosters?
Whenever you see a decision made that impacts lot of people. The first thing you should always look for is who is gaining the most profit from it. You will have your answer.
Any person with a remarkable net worth wouldn’t be stating this obvious statement whilst simultaneously thinking they’re enlightening anyone with it.
The answer is this: Blizzard owns the game and the concept of the game, they have stated that to play their game you must follow rules. One of those rules is that you don’t pay IRL money for services in the game to entities other than Blizzard. As the games owner/operator, they have the right to set these rules. You agreed to them when you purchased the game, made your account and logged in. Therefore RMT for services or items in game when the seller is not Blizzard are forbidden and ban worthy.
However, buying in game currency from Blizzard themselves in their approved transaction method (WOW tokens) and then exchanging that in game currency to another player in the game for their time is allowed (as long as it is not cross server and the other new restrictions put on it recently).
While you may not see a big difference in the outcome (someone paying gold for a carry is just as clueless on mechanics as someone paying RMT for a carry), there are big differences in practicality, corporate law, and tax implications. The biggest difference is that Blizzard sets the price and in game worth of a WOW token. They could remove supply and demand from the equation and set them all to 50K gold tomorrow if they so chose and there is nothing anyone could say or do. Or they could decide to suck gold out of the in game economy buy setting the price for a WOW token to different amounts depending on the server economy health OR just jacking up the cost for WOW time with gold to 300K a pop. Therefore it is not anything other than fake currency controlled completely by a corporation EVEN though they allow us to turn it to bnet balance and buy other games. Because they ultimately control its worth at all times.
No matter how mad ur paragraph is you will never stop RMT. My parents were selling plat on EQ1 when I was 7. It’s why I grew up poor because my parents are like the wow rmters making minimum wage but playing 18 hours a day for it.
People are gonna PayPal for cutting edge and gladiator the trick is to grow up and stop caring about the integrity of a game with talking cows.
I genuinely cannot imagine the horror of being someone that types oh the token is so blizzard gets a cut and actually caring man.
Just play the game. Laugh at people who pay for it and move on.
Uh, of course dude. It’s not a hot take that blizz wants to keep the money internal. Everything is a business. They didn’t make the game as a pro bono endeavor.
