Why Blizzard punish players for gold trading? If they wanna combat RMT then go ONLY after the sellers. Punishing players for something we don’t have power and tools nor is our job to investigate is stupid. The current situation punish everybody, people are afraid to trade gold, to get tips for jobs, etc.
The current situation is ridiculous.
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Its a double edged sword I suppose.
On the one hand you have innocent bystanders..
On the other hand you have the thousands and THOUSANDS of people blatantly buying gold, who are the true source of the rampant RMT issue on WoW (classic anyway)
Let Blizz cook and see if they cant come up with a system that minimizes false positives some more, while still relentlessly punishing the ones who buy.
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There are streamers who went from 1 gold to 200–700 gold overnight. It doesn’t look like they’ve been banned.
Maybe they treat “regular players” differently. Who knows.
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Sellers exist because of buyers you dingus. They’re creating the demand…
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Yea this essentially kills services
How would anybody know if a guy has illegal gold
good job blizzard, anything but banning bots, need that sub money €€€
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so lets ban everybody. is that your genius solution ?
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Because that’s clearly what I said… 
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No, they should go after everyone. People who take RMT gold are the real problem. Just don’t take gold from people that you don’t know, it’s that simple.
I’m not afraid of trading gold from people I trust nor for getting tips for services either.
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According to blizzard, you should be afraid
even just an enchanting tip can get you banned
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Streamers also gets banned, just watched a guy gets banned because a deleted char sent him 7 golds and he was unable to return it. Some char sent him 7 gold via mail, the streamer tried to return it several times but to no avail because the sender deleted his account. In the end the guy just accepted the gold and moved on… then he got banned. Banned for 7 gold!
Nevermind the majority of cases of people simply giving gold to their friends to help them out, paying for services, tipping them for helping them out in the world for a variety of reasons…
WHAT ABOUT DEATHROLLING? OL’ SLIPPY BUILT A GAMBLING EMPIRE IN OG CLASSIC AND NOW WE SAYING THIS CANNOT RETURN?!?
Genuinely we had so much fun and spent so many hours deathrolling high stakes bets in the streets of stormwind it actually added a lot of content and fun to the game for me and many others unironically.
This should be an option for people who want it and doesn’t hurt the economy in any way as long as the gold isn’t gained using real money.
Why even allow people to trade or send gold when the majority of cases are going to result or potentially result in an undeserved ban.
With all that said this one is a no brainer and slippy hopes blizzard will fix this
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how do you know from where that gold came that people pay for your service? Do you have some special powers the rest of us dont have?
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That would be very easy to see for Blizzard after an investigation, that you were tipped for a service. Really nothing to be worried about. In 20 years I have never once been banned for any of this, I wonder why.
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The fact that there needs to be a temporary ban and an investigation after a regular gold trade doesn’t seem like an issue to you? 
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If i buy gold and tip you we will both get banned. You have no way of knowing how do i got my gold.
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Yeah, not really. Because those bans wouldn’t even be that common. Mistakes do happen, always been like that. If you did nothing wrong, you have nothing to be worried about.
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You say that but with recent changes in the beta it seems there is an automated banning system now in place that was never there before. There is already plenty of innocent people being kicked out the game due to this recently. I’m sure it’ll be fixed but to say it’s not even an issue is a very funny take
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unfortunately they are common. The guy was banned for 7 gold sent to him via ingame mail.
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Yeah, because none of those people would ever lie eh?
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do you think somebody will buy 7 gold? Also, he had 160 (or something like that) gold in his bags.