I quit and gave gold to my (now suspended) friend

WoW Classic Season of Discovery
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Put bluntly, SoD was something that I had very little faith in and, being somebody to learn from history as to not be doomed to repeat it, completely lost faith in Blizzard a long while ago.
I was pushed into returning for SoD. To give it a shot, with a few IRL friends. So i did… For an entire season, levelling 5 characters and gearing them. Not exactly having fun, but, playing in my downtime.
Phase 2 hitting and being so bad cemented for me my thought process of Blizzard being a bare minimum company, and, frankly, I was embarrassed to have spent any money on a subscription for this game again. So i quickly sold all of my consumables on the auction house, sold all of the gear to vendors from all of my characters, totalling somewhere in the region of 650-700g. Not a small amount, but not game breakingly high, either.

Now, I sent this to my IRL best friend, who has decided to still play the game. As he says “I have nothing else to play”. He did not pay me for the gold, infact, his exact words were,
“Why you quitting you donkey?”

8 days later, my friend receives a 2 week suspension for receiving this gold from me. With an email informing him that all gold and profited items have been removed from his account.
What the hell is going on? This is not against the rules. I am allowed to give my gold to my friends if i choose to. I did not buy gear with it, infact, the opposite. I literally sold my gear to the vendor for it. He has not bought gear with it, infact, he is not even level 40 yet (He has 4 children and works 2 jobs)…

Why the hell is he suspended? Just when I thought Blizzard couldn’t be more of a complete joke of a company. It’s now bannable to trade gold to, or receive gold from, your friends? That’s absolutely pathetic. Made worse by there being no human interaction on the unban process. Just the same old ridiculous automated BS lazy message that has become the centrepiece of your entire company. The absolute bare minimum.

You are a damn joke. STOP BANNING PEOPLE FOR DOING NOTHING WRONG. You make people pay to play this game, at least regulate it properly.

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Damn playing 5 chars, gearing them and accumulating so much money. SoD must have been your thing. Quite nice having a game in which you spend so much time:)

I‘m just playing one Char and maxing everything out.

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Not really, I didn’t do anything special I just didn’t buy consumables to “parse” in a faceroll raid and then coming into phase 2 i made and sold a lot of fire protection and nature protection potions, and levelled from 150-215 alch using Free Action Potions and sold them. Making gold is not hard.

Don’t derail my thread.

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Wow you mustve had 3500 shadow protection potions saved up.

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Right what a shame. In P2 the demand surely isn’t high

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I didn’t have shadow protection potions. I had a lot of herbs that I used to level up making FAPs (Made around 260 of them and sold them all). I then turned to buying mats for, crafting, and reselling Fire Protection Potions… Mats were around 65s at the start of phase and the potion sold for 2g20s. Similar story for Nature Prot only I didn’t make anywhere near as many of them.

But I sold —everything— on my account. All of it. Silk Cloth saved up, any consumables that I had saved up, Leather that I had saved up. Enchanting materials, ore, bars on 5 chars + The raw gold that I already had on the characters. It’s really not that much money to make. Honestly it’s a lot less than I expected it to amount to

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Oh for sure, im just surprised you had so much stuff for someone that was enraged by how bad the game is.

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It’s just the amount i got from playing in phase 1 and not wasting my gold on worthless things :S. Seriously, who the hell needs Rumsey Rum Black Label to do BFD? Complete waste of 1.5g every time you used one.

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Seems there’s always going to be blizz defenders that well claim ‘you totally RMT or botted’ when someone says he’s banned. There’s too many instances here where people get banned after getting gold in a normal trade that it can’t be all a lie.

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I totally agree with you on this part. I just dont believe the guy saying he made 650 gold selling his BFD gear to a vendor. Oh and he also had some herbs in the bank.

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No clue but my guess is that he had some gold saved up and maybe made 200g from the last minute ah sales? Dunno.

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I have enough gold to get multiple people banned if they’d accept my gold lmao, this is hilarious, and sad.

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You could get me banned. Trade it to me
pls thx

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I do agree the autoban is problematic because we can all make mistakes, even Blizzard but to take about a week or so to actually talk to someone is very frustrating. My friend got banned for buying cheap items and reselling them for higher but because players made the mistake of the price, they reported my friend and they got auto banned. I am sorry but if someone makes a mistake with pricing, it’s their fault considering you can cancel an ah at anytime before the item is sold and there is so many addons that help with this, dunno how my friend getting banned broke any rules.

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problem with the autoban system is that for a 2 week ban u will have your ban time run out before u get a ticket appeal seen by blizz, and it is especially annoying if you have been banned without doing anything wrong or breaking tos

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Me trying to determine if all the posts about gold bans are legit or not.

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well they would be pretty foolish to post here if they know they have bought gold

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well people are dumb :stuck_out_tongue: so yeah some people do

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i said they would be foolish to do, which leaves that open still for the dumb ones who would, but surely they all are not dumb and stupid. always patterns on this forum when things get announced that are not very well implemented (pretty much every update)

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appeal the ban and explain the situation instead of crying on the forums