I see a lot of people discussing trading items for real money.
They do not afraid and discuss even in ingame trade chat. Most of them even do not know that RMT is forbidden. Also, the most common argument is that Blizz wouldn’t get any evidences, if that was real money purchase or just a gift.
I want to stop it. So, are there any tools to report RMT? How can I help to prevent RMT? What evidences should I collect?
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I think you can’t do much against people talking about selling items for money. If they really do they usually hide it behind a additional transaction. They used to sell jokes and “gifted” you the items later on. As long as people pay2win they will sell it no matter what you do. But you can try. Maybe blizz will ban a few people. But you shouldn’t try to namecall people on the forum. I think the only option is to write an email to their customer support directly or use ingame report tools.
You are so sad man… go buy a spiderman suit and get into town if you feel such a hero… what a loser you are… bleh…
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Of course I am loosing, it is unwinnable battle now, but we should fight. Each fair player should. Hope, warden will arrive soon.
If I wanted play pay to win game, I would play clash of clans.
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It’s a matter of people. If there is someone how wants to buy and there is someone how wants to sell then they will find each other.
If you want to change that you need to change people. Reporting will do nothing. It’s an endless fight until there will be someone who wants to buy/sell.
Don’t waste your time and life on that. It’s the same battle as bots.
Best for you
You won’t. Real money trading is by nature inconspicuous and you cannot gather evidence of it actually happening without probably breaking a few laws yourself.
Furthermore, Blizzard itself doesn’t prohibit it in Diablo 2. And the general trend of game publishers for many years now has been losing up the grip on their monitoring. They realize not only this helps keep their games alive, but monitoring it requires a lot of human and technical resources they just don’t want to spend. Real Money trading has in fact become an official feature of many games, implemented by the developers themselves in an attempt to cash in on that market. Diablo 3 did it, Even Online, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, …
So, instead why don’t you worry about playing your game and not caring so much with what others are doing? And please, do not tell me you can’t enjoy Diablo 2 knowing people are buying items with real money. This is not a competitive game.
Stop playing it like that. And stop looking over people’s shoulders. It doesn’t make you the person you think you are. It really doesn’t. Your original post made me cringe…
… a cancer of many games, effectively converting them to “gameplay containing products”
Right. This is a grind game. So, pay to win makes more gameplay damage, than in competitive games.
How? Don’t bother explaining it to me. I don’t need being deluded. Instead, explain to yourself exactly how are you damaged by other people real money purchases of in-game items in your day-to-day experience of the game.
If you successfully done it and are still convinced this is a cancer, by all means, go save the world.
I agree it is really bad. Games used to be “fair” atleast i remember them to be fair. But you also have to be realistic. It would require vast amounts of ressources to battle this. And at this point there are a lot of people who are actually ok with it.
The real solution to this problem is to split the player base into those who want to play it this way and those who don’t.
Path of Exile “fixed” this issue with solo selffound leagues. And i would love to see them in diablo aswell.
There is still the problem with botter but you can’t have it all. Form a discord community and invite people who stick to your ideals and play with them. Don’t compare yourself with “cheater” or lazy “p2win” people.
Das Problem daran: Du wirst absolut nichts daran ändern oder verhindern können.
Ein Einzelner wie du ist dazu niemals in der Lage. 
Sorry mate, but why does someone who buy/sell items for real cash bother your gameplay? I always play alone and almost never trade any items. So why should it bother?
RMT is just one part of a much bigger problem.
And you are not representative for every RMT player. You may not compete but others do. They almost always have the best gear when it comes down to PvP and they almost always ‘win’ in every other aspect of the game aswell if they choose to. RMT in itself isn’t even the problem. It is about what it incentivises.
RMT opens up a lucrative market for selling items. → People compete to get more items in order to sell them.
As i said games used to be fair. Now you can easily win by using cheats such as bots or maphacks or simply buy the win. You don’t play by the rules of the game. Imagine playing chess and being able to buy free moves and playing against legitimate players.
If they didn’t affect legitimate players nobody would bat an eye. But they do. They indirecly force people who try to be efficient to use cheats themselfes or you loose out in the trading game aspect of the game or in the racing aspect.
You either tolerate them or you don’t. And if you buy items yourself you enable them.
We could have a debate on other games. But this is Diablo 2 we are talking abut. The competitive crowd in here is a very niche group. The game simply isn’t suited for it. It lacks balanced classes and skills, and competitive ladder or PvP was always a developers’ afterthought after they had an afterthought. There are much worse problems to competition in this game than real money. You are so limited in build choices it takes a “special” type of player to even consider competitive gameplay to be an interesting aspect of the game that is worth investing time (and money) on.
That niche crowd may use real money to compete. But wanting to get into that side of this game is only the first mistake they made, before opening their wallets and making their second. I’ll say it straight here, it takes a very special type of loser to spend one cent of real money on Diablo 2 items.
The other aspect is real money trading is inevitable. There is really nothing one can do about it… or in fact should. The morals or ethics or it are even open for debate. I can open the room: Is it ok to compete for real money prizes, but somehow not to make money of my gameplay, or spend money to improve my game? Where exactly lies the distinction that makes one ok and the other a lousy cheat worth censuring?
As soon as trading exists as a game feature, real money exchanges become a possibility, incited by natural entrepreneurship and governed by the rules of economics. If developers/publishers would try to stop it in the past – and some still do – many realized there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the concept (other than copyright rules infringement, of course). It is why some of them actually encourage it in game and sought an opportunity to cash in on this natural human desire.
All is fundamentally wrong if people mix up a computer game and real life. When I play a “buy to play” game, I do not want see people bragging with all luxury items just because they have money. Sanctuary is a separate world, designed to be ruled by luck, skill and effort, not by a weight of a wallet.
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Geld regiert nun mal die Welt, daran wird sich so schnell erst mal nichts ändern. 
no one force you to buy items for money and this game just for fun. if people have fun with buying items for money its his own decision.
Good grief, how sanctimonious and judgmental one can get.
I learned a long time to live and let live. You do you, caped crusader. I’m sure you’ll make it.
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