Buying gold from other players in the game is risky and harmful. It supports malicious activities and violates the End User License Agreement. We urge you to avoid such transactions to protect your account and maintain a fair gaming environment.
Gold buying Risks and Consequences
Purchasing gold from other players puts your account at risk of being hacked and supports companies that steal accounts, operate bots, and disrupt the game economy. Participating in transactions that support gold sellers can lead to the removal of the gold and a permanent suspension for your account.
Deceptive Tactics
Gold sellers use automated bots and deceptive methods, including sending unsolicited gold or requesting trades outside the in-game chat to evade detection. A common sign that youâre dealing with a gold seller is an insistence that the delivery of the gold be made by a different character than the character making the initial arrangement.
Safe Practices to Avoid Gold Sellers
Players should never buy gold from other players with real money. Rememberâyou should only accept gold from players that you know, or through crafting or profession agreements made using in-game chat. Always avoid gold trades intended to cross game variants, realms, or factions that are not explicitly supported by the game.
The only safe way to purchase gold is via the WoW Token, which provides a convenient and sanctioned exchange of gold for game time or Battle.net Balance directly through the in-game Auction House.
Maybe let players earn gold like they used to by farming old raids before you nerfed them, make a mission table instead of removing them? I do not support gold sellers and they should be banned but also your token is just pure greed and the real reason you keep nerfing ways of making gold in game so players are forced to buy it.
I am going to go ahead and say that third-party goldsellers are as trustworthy as Blizzard.
They both rely on repeat customers and therefore seek to deliver a good service.
Third-party goldsellers have no interest in screwing over a customer just as Blizzard have no interest in that. Rather, they have every reason in the world for wanting to provide that customer with a good service so that the customer is satisfied and therefore more likely to return and spend more money. Just like Blizzard.
The reason why repeat customers have become the main business is because Blizzard have designed the game so that players constantly need more gold â of course with the intention of selling their own WoW Token constantly and frequently.
That design also benefits third-party goldsellers.
And if you look at sites for third-party goldsellers, then theyâre built around serving repeat customers with all sort of loyalty bonuses, sweepstakes, and free gifts.
This blue post reads like an ill-versed advertisement for Blizzardâs WoW Token by noting how safe it is, as well as threatening players with bans if they use third-party goldsellers, as well as fearmongering about how dangerous and risky it is to use third-party goldsellers.
I would assume this post comes about because Blizzard are losing the gold-selling market to third-party goldsellers who can provide a better service and more value for money.
All Blizzard can do is threaten to ban players for buying gold from others than themselves. Thatâs pathetic.
Itâs an absolutely shameful blue post given the biased position from which it is made.
In the past, when Blizzard had no skin in the game, they spoke on these matters with righteousness and justice.
Now their words reek of greed and gluttony.
hello Kaivax.
so i just came to inform you that most of those gold sellers and their shoppers went to pandaria classic.
me and my friends found their their capital website and telegram group.
its the biggest group of RMT -and account selling and bott selling.
also we found a new bug 3 days ago and ill send all the information today.
Yeh, I think Blizzard need to make more gold available in the game that players can earn, so they can cover the expenses of playing the game without having to rely on buying Gold or Tokens if they choose.
Unfortunately I think Blizzard have designed current WoW around selling more Tokens, and that definitely has put a dampener on the game.
I joined the Season quite late, and I still dread to think how much gold I spent on Consumables and Crafted equipment to just play the game at a basic level. And no where near that kind of gold was available to earn in the game, even through a long grind.
And then putting more gold into levelling a profession only to find out that that was only ever going to be a loss anyway.
Buying Gold shouldnât be a necessity to play the game, it should be an option for those who donât want to farm it. Just like the level boost, there will always be players who donât want to farm gold. Your tokens will still sell.
I just play the game normally, never had gold problems, never had to buy token. Farming gold has always been possible, maybe you simply donât know how to do it?
Sure .that is true . But buying a wow token converting it to gold and then buying a boost with that gold from other players is also risky and not so healthy for the game.
When the game should instead be promoting fair practice and reward .
Uhu, and how do you think they get the gold? Right, by screwing everyone but their customers. How short-sighted can one be? Is your ill-feeling towards Blizzard so big that you are blinded by disgust?
I donât condone botting at all, but I also donât condone Blizzard having rules if they only enforce them at their own convenience. And I also donât condone of designing an in-game economy where Blizzard stands to benefit by proxy from botting through their own WoW Token.
However, what I am saying is that Blizzardâs scaremongering about how third-party gold-sellers are just looking to screw players over, is not really true.
Their business relies on having satisfied customers whoâll buy from them again and again.
The same holds true for Blizzard. Theyâre in the same business, operating in the same market, competing for the same customers.
In fact, the only ones looking to screw players over, are Blizzard, who threaten players with bans and account closures if they buy gold from anyoneâŚexcept them.
I mean, thatâs with any party whoâs the (within context) law-maker, and enforcer. They can set the law (rules in this case) at any given point, but that doesnât mean they police them. They can decide so at any given point. This point of yours makes zero sense to me. Of course they do this. And within the context of gold sellers, they arenât a third-partyâŚnot sure how they can enforce it at their own convenience?
It is very true. By botting and hacking/stealing accounts. Third-party gold-selling parties are inherently a danger for every player in this game.
One may want satisfied customers, but they donât give a damn about anyone but their customers. While Blizzard (at least in theory) has to care about all their users (not just token customers). If you donât see the difference hereâŚI donât know man.
RightâŚbut you just said that third-party sellers bot, and itâs known that they use compromised accounts. How that isnât screwing over ANY WoW-player, is beyond my level of comprehension.
I donât really think the issue relating to compromised and hacked accounts is much of an issue any longer. I think most of that is scaremongering from Blizzardâs side, as their blue post is a fine example of.
I would wager that Blizzard wiping playersâ guild banks, warband banks, and professions, has done more damage to the playerbase in the last number of years than any shifty hackers have.
I also donât think having a ruleset where Blizzard stands to benefit financially from doing nothing, and where they only seem to do anything when it is convenient to their own position, rather than enacting a ruleset and enforcing it without fear or favor to ensure the integrity and fair play environment of the game, is very praise-worthy.
Like I said in my initial post; when Blizzard had no skin in this game it was easy to rally behind them, because their actions and motivations were righteous and just.
Now they are all but that.
So, they may do exactly the sameâŚbut because they offer a token they are now âwrongâ? Oke. Perhaps look up some news about players receiving death-threats after interfering with botters. Yes, they are dangerous. Arguing that Blizzard is âmore wrongâ is utterly bs.
I honestly do not get why anyone could be pro third-party sellers, really.
My point is simply that Blizzardâs holier-than-thou attitude in the blue post is pathetic given that theyâre in the exact same business as the third-party gold-sellers â and that is a rotten business.
They donât score any points for saying that they are the least rotten gold-seller on the market. Theyâre still rotten.
And they donât score any points for proliferating that gold-selling business themselves in the first place, when it is in fact a rotten business.
And they certainly donât score any points for slandering the third-party gold-sellers and admonishing players for buying from them, when all they seek is that players should buy from them instead.
Do they need to score points? They have a rule; no third-party gold buying, period. This post is more or less just a reminder of that rule, and what the consequences may be. What the exact reason is for this reminder, thatâs a bit of a mystery but I have a dark-brown feeling that something (big) happened behind the public curtains.
Let me ask it this way; what do you want from Blizzard regarding this matter? Currently it feels like complaining for the sake of complaining. It almost feels like youâre defending the third-party services which are known to use exploits. Which is a bit of an odd stance, regardless of Blizzardâs own involvement in this matter.
Blizzard donât need to score points â that was just a way of me saying that thereâs little in their blue post thatâs praise-worthy.
Fact of the matter is that Blizzard introduced the WoW Token to curb third-party gold-selling by effectively overtaking the market themselves.
Now theyâre finding themselves in a situation where theyâre getting beat in that market by the third-party gold-sellers who can provide both a better service and a better product.
So now Blizzard are resorting to slandering third-party gold-sellers and threatening players with bans and account closures. Thatâs weak. The blue post screams desperation. Their product, the WoW Token, is not very successful. It cannot compete against third-party gold-sellers and therefore doesnât manage to curb their business. If anything the WoW Token just proliferates buying gold by legitimizing and normalizing the practice as a complimentary aspect to playing the game, which then provides third-party gold-sellers with more customers.
What should they do? Get rid of the WoW Token! That thing is an abomination! It is a filthy stain on Blizzardâs own historic values regarding fair play and gameplay first.
Beyond that, I would strongly encourage shifting WoW from a gold-based trading economy toward a gameplay experience centered around solo self-found.
It is really hard to see the player benefit to the current design of the gameâs economy, because it only seems to exist for the purpose of generating money for Blizzard and third-party gold-sellers.
Blizzard had the wisdom to acknowledge the failure of the Diablo III Real Money Auction House and in-game economy for that very reason. It is bewildering that they do not seem to possess that level of wisdom when it comes to WoWâs in-game economy.
First the latter, then the former. The demand will remain as-is. Removing the token will only push that entire demand back to the services which use exploits, and otherwise undesirable constructs to gain an absurd amount of gold.