Let us mail our alts with the new restriction

[Hoponfresh-firemaw]

Like genuinely, what are these devs smoking? Not being able to mail your alts on the same account for 30 days is horrible. You can’t farm anything because your bags are full and you can’t move em somewhere else. You get to max level, and then do what exactly?

[Herbmcgruff-lone-wolf]

@Hoponfresh-firemaw

what are these devs smoking?

Something stronger than what I am smoking that’s for sure.

[Saneko-ragnaros (Saneko)]

Well, if a botter’s account’s bags were full, he would just mail them to his alt and continue if this restriction wasn’t there.

It appears to be intended atleast. For feedback please see this thread.

[Hoponfresh-firemaw]

Ah, yes, make the player experience horrible for an entire month because the cheapskates at the top are refusing to hire GM’s. That’s a great way to grow the game. If there are bots, you ban them, you don’t let them farm for months and let them profit off of this.

[Saneko-ragnaros (Saneko)]

@Hoponfresh-firemaw

If there are bots, you ban them, you don’t let them farm for months and let them profit off of this.

For example in another F2P game Valorant & League this is explained in more detail why it is so difficult:

/dev: Vanguard x LoL - League of Legends

The botting problem is prevalant in all games/MMO’s, not just WoW. If there was a solution there would be one by now.

An ex-dev that worked at Blizz:

Banwaves Are Smart

You may suggest any methods you may think of through the ingame feedback box but it is not likely that it will be groundbreaking new suggestion.

@Kaivax

We hear folks say things like “just ban the bots” a lot. We ban tens of thousands of bots a week. It’s not visible to you just how much we do, and that is absolutely another problem in itself; we need to be better at surfacing these actions (more on this later). The truth is we’ve never been better and more effective at identifying and actioning malicious accounts, and our Game Security Operations (GSO) team that handle these actions are iterating and innovating on a nearly daily basis.

Unfortunately, in the history of WoW, the people perpetrating this illicit trade have also never been better at coming up with new methods, schemes, farms, and exploits to work around our efforts. As much engineering and analytics effort as we put into this, illicit RMT “workshops” put the same amount in, or more, and there are hundreds, if not thousands of these workshops out there all working around the clock to develop new technologies and techniques to counter our new technologies and techniques. It’s an arms race, and it never, ever ends.

We will never completely beat “bots” or illicit RMT. It’s an unwinnable war as long as there is money to be made by third parties. The ubiquitous nature of this type of thing in online games is an objective fact. It has always been a part of WoW, and every other popular online game for the past 25 years, and it will always be a part of online games going forward. It’s frustrating to fight this fight, but we will not stop fighting it.

While we can’t completely “win” the war, what we can do is mitigate the impact it has on the game. Is WoW Token the be-all and end-all to solve this? No, but it is a tool. It’s just one tool, though, among many. There is clearly a demand for gold for certain types of players, and that demand is only increasing. So, we are engaging a tool that we’ve used before to help mitigate the impact that illicit RMT has on the game. The more tools we employ, and the less lucrative we can make it for third parties to do what they do to make a profit, the less likely it is that new malicious actors enter the illicit RMT scene, and the more likely that existing malicious actors will exit the business. Ultimately, it’s taking incremental steps and using a multitude of tools that will reduce how impactful those third parties will be in Wrath Classic and beyond.

Source.

[Attap-twisting-nether]

@Saneko-ragnaros

Well, if a botter’s account’s bags were full, he would just mail them to his alt and continue if this restriction wasn’t there.

1. Botters (mostly) farming raw gold and vendoring it, so they bags not full
2. If it’s alt on same account he will banned same time as botter so he won’t profit anyway.

[Dottie-pyrewood-village]

I was just thinking that, I think the OP means on the same Warcraft account so they would have the same restrictions as your main character.

It’s really so when your mains bags are full you don’t miss out and have to sell useful stuff the bank can only store so much stuff and without selling stuff it’s difficult to get the gold together for the extra bags and slots.

[Hoponfresh-firemaw]

Because I never paid with an actual sub but only through tokens on this account, I am restricted for 40 days on a 7 month old acc that literally has a rank 14 on Era. I have to wait for the token to run out, and then buy a sub and wait 30 days for it to run out before I can use mailbox/trade/ah. I can’t farm anything because I can’t mail my alts so my bags would be full. If it weren’t for my friends and a diff acc that LUCKILY wasn’t restricted I wouldn’t be able to raid because no consumes.

[Herbmcgruff-lone-wolf]

Blizzard doesn’t deserve your money.