Blizzard has only banned 0.0000001% of gold buyers.
Why? Lots of gold buying already. Might as well be legit. Itâs not like the items are gold get removed.
Itâs still against ToS and iâd rather blizzard ban bots gold buyers and gold sellers and do a hard 100% gold reset than implement a token to legitimize this. And i say this as someone who has farmed a LOT of gold during tbc.
To each there own. Someone in my guild now has 2 accounts, one to buy gold on and then launder it for the second account.
Itâs too big now, I donât think it can be stopped.
Oh it can definitely be stopped, Like i said, If blizzard actually starts paying attention to this and banning people involved while at the same time resetting gold to 0 it would be stopped.
Iâm not sure that the majority of the player base want that, even though they may pretend to.
Over half of my former guild admitted gold buying on discord. Those that didnât and farmed it legitmately would likely also be opposed to a reset.
The war is lost. Maybe try to hold the line on fresh?
I never said the majority of the player base want it, Iâm saying it would be easy for blizzard to do this.
But theyâre a commercial organisation. They value the revune players generate over these trivial (to the) issues,
If even 10% (and anecdotally itâ's more) customers buy gold then thats a huge revenue hit.
More people need to quit because of RMT than play despite it for it to make commercial sense, and if Blizzard are the supply of gold⌠then even that number is less relevant
how much gold did you buy though? id assume if you bought 5-10k they take away your mounts, proffesions and stuff you bought with it :)? if its only 1000 gold or less i dont see why they would take it away since 14 days ban = easily getting that back if played anyway
I farm my own gold and i donât care if GDKP exist or not.
Blizzard could stop GDKP or ban players buying gold, itâs all up to them what they want but right now they donât really care so much.
I would like to see the token added to classic, I know plenty of people who play retail just to get the token and maintain a sub, but they really want to be playing classic instead.
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Source of rmt are countries where 10$ is a weekly income. Like rusia
Also most of the rmters are not capable of playing game on the level when they are carrying in gdkp
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Its not a ârevenue hitâ because blizzard isnât selling gold and blizzard shouldnât be selling gold.
Just be honest and say you want pay to win without the stigma of going to g2g 
Iâll add this, The token if used for goldbuying is worse for the game than buying from goldsellers, Why? The token just creates raw gold, The economy is inflated as is, With the token itâll be dozens of times worse. At least the gold sellers have to farm stuff and sell it to then sell gold, Or farm raw gold at a slower pace, Or sell boost services etc which doesnât create raw gold.
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I bought about 5.5k I think
Banning paying customers, permanently as suggested above is a revenue hit, or would you expect those banned forever to continue to sub?
No it doesnât you absolute melt.
The token is purchased, with real money⌠then sold for in game gold⌠to another player⌠who then gets the gametime⌠It allows time poor cash rich people to purchase from time rich cash, cash poor people. The gold isnât created from thin air, its farmed by another player⌠just like the current RMT we have now.
From fresh server ?? since you needed 5k
No I was playing horde at the begging of TBC on Gandling, then the server melted overnight, there were no players to play with. So I rerolled alliance and bought the gold for my Epic flier and a few basic pieces at 70, because I really didnât want to do the grind again, so soon.
well i guess its an automated system if your getting reported by enough people and the message is automated and they cannot figure out what you spend what gold on,
did he spend 1000 gold on pots, which pots? did he spend 5000 gold on mount, what if he allready had 1000 gold and only needed 4000? they simply cannot do it without over removing items from the player, thus leaving it at the ban
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I learned no lesson. If I needed gold again, and I was going on Holiday⌠Iâd do it and risk the ban.
Iâm not sure what the answer is, but whats happening now isnât wrking.
Iâve friends who buy it on a second account that they donât even play, so donât care if itâs banned.
Iâve friends that launder it in GDKPâs
and
Iâve friends that pop into the bank of a guild that has nobody in it but his own alts where Blizzard donât touch it as it now âdoesnât belong to the playerâ
The current system isnât working, the only suggestions people have (perm banning paying customers) doesnât pass the commercial sniff test, if you canât beat them join them.
Blizz might as well have the money, let them sell the WoW Token.
Huh, My bad.
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Unfortunately the only way to âkind of stopâ GDKP its personal loot.
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