I’m not asking for perfection. Intent to act would honestly suffice at this point.
The moral of the story here is “Dont pay people for stuff when you dont know who you are paying”
Its really simple and its not blizzards fault you paid for something that didnt materialize.
Lessons learnt and all that…
even though it is a losing battle they dont have to setup a big dangling arrow that points you in the direction. as i have sayid higher up, many will avoid this kinda scam if they just take Service chat away from automatic joining. but instead places it as a tab in the social option section. where the players themself have to opt in to the chat manualy to see it.
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Blizzard can’t police every “breath or fart” a player does.
If I get a random whisper “Hey. Can I haz all your gold for a sec. I want to show you a magic trick”. My common sense should stop me instead of waiting Daddy Blizzard to stop me…
Many will avoid this scam by not attempting to buy a boost…
we have already established and agreed that i have myself to blame. yet we still have kids playing the game, from the age of 10 and up who does not know that this is a potential scam and blizz provides a chat which everyone automaticly join and we realy can change that since it can be added into a manual opt in choise instead of it being automatic join
so you a brand spanking new player comes to the game. you see the advertisement in services and you easily get gold in the game. you dont have people to raid with but the gold to buy. you wouldnt buy then?. it isnt considered a stupid thing when it is a active chat which is allowed to fully advertise for it. thats pretty much blizz saying Hey we support the boosters go and buy!!
again removing the chat wont help, but making it a opt in option will remove the idea of it being accepted in the game. people dont know it is against the code of conduct and that they can be hard punished for buying something that blizz is actively pushing you into seeing
No sane person “willingly” accepts advertisements and the people who do advertising arent stupid either. They wont spam an empty channel either and the adds will either sneak back into automatically joined /2 trade which the services channel was suppose relieve from or capital cities, quest/hubs…any place where there is a lot of people…will get advertised-spam to hell.
I doubt thats an improvement…
but advertising in trade which isnt a accepted channel for them to advertise in will have quick reaction and i doubt they want to risk it. idk about other realms but those who advertise in trade/general on my realms usualy dont have their characters 2-3 days later and i doubt thats a willing thing
The main point is to try to get newer players and players like me to avoid breaking the code of conduct and that can be done by helping people avoid the spammers. it has to be some kind of way we can improve the game when it comes to advertisement and risking your own account
I am not sure you understood the point. Adds are not something you go looking willingly. Even when you open your real life mailbox. YOu usually look for any letters and stuff instead of “cant wait to read some adds”. So the adds which get thrown there gets “forced” to be read…even for 1 sec before you throw them in trash.
Same story. People wont willingly join a services channel…and newcomers wont even know about it. So the advertisers will try to find others ways to "force you to read their 
". THats how adds work. People don’t go looking for them, you have to make the customers look at them.
Right now, a /5 channel which you can just quit afterwards is better than…lets say having an tonne of /says next to the vault on Wednesday for example.
It’s weird that you quote me for saying that I don’t ask for perfection, and then proceed to describe the impossibility of perfection.
Again: I don’t ask for perfection, so it’s a moot point to bring up every kind of random scenario that Blizzard can’t deal with, because I don’t expect them to deal with every kind of random scenario.
I would like to see Blizzard show an intention to act on a safer online environment within their game and uphold their own core value of play nice; play fair.
Blizzard did a GDC talk on this (broader) topic in the past, so it’s not something that needs a lot of discussion as far as I’m concerned. It just needs Blizzard to act on it, which they’ve become more lacking in over the years:
i got what you ment. But i would like to see some safety measure for players who buy. It isnt fair that the advertisements gets to stay but blizz does nothing to give the gold back, and it definatly should not be a risk of losing your account when you buy since there is nothing that warns that it is against code of conduct unless you read their insane amount of text on terms of use.
They could add a text that automaticly show in service that buying boost is not allowed within the game and you risk losing your account if you do. This way the chat remains and people are properly informed about the buying of boost. Or they can also add it as a loading text. So it comes as a general information ounder the immage of the zone you enter.
idk i m throwing ideas out there to see if something can be done for the players who are unaware so they dont buy a boost one day and the next is banned for 2 weeks for breaking code of conduct
Because that was the thing that suprised me the most that it was against code of conduct and there for you lose all chanse of help, considering they added the service chat (which made me think it was allowed)
Unless they sneakily changed the ToS but last time I heard buying a boost for in-game gold was more of a grey area. Not banable but Blizzard wont help if things go wrong either.
Or…we are speaking specifically regarding RMT boosting?
well idk if it is grey area or not. i can just say what the gm answeared to my first ticket when i asked for help which i qoted earlier in the post. buying boost is against code of conduct and we highly recomend you to not buy it in the future or you can get penalty. meaning my account is at risk if i buy again. the Gm can be wrong idk. but that was the warning i got
proper qote at third response to the post ounder your first coment. cant repeat cus blizz have already warned me about the forum rules…
Either the GM is wrong or he misunderstood you talking about boosting with RMT.
Boosting for gold is not bannable. They even made a services channel for it.
If boosting was bannable then where is the logic in creating a channel for it? Its the same as creating a “Hacker channel” or “Botter channel” and etc. 
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Which is what confused me aswell. hence the entire post and my Rage/reaction to the whole convorsation with 3 difrent GM’s which neither of the two others corected the first GM and assured me i was not at risk for ban if i bought boost 
A lot of these “sellers”, dare say the vast majority of them, use pugs unawares they’re being used by these sellers’ money making schemes.
As such there’s no guarantee these runs will succeed.
For the M+, if you see players aren’t associated with each other [like not being in the same guild, different language realms, etc] let that be a red flag.
Maybe don’t buy boosts?
I can’t wait till they turn WoW just like 99% of the other MMOS where you can buy the end game gear with IRL money in the Shop. Then everything will be ok.
And I will leave the game for good 
i am against boosts but can i really scam people without anything happening?
great way to pay uour sub lol