Yes, maybe after about a decade of pursuing them through various courts and a huge amount of money being spent, it would be enforceable if Brussels could be bothered to threaten Cyprus with sanctions if it didn’t enforce it. (The EU is not the top down organisation that anti-EU forces portray it as. It operates more like a set of gentleman’s agreements that countries keep or not as it suits them.)
And long before the Cyprus equivalent of a cease and desist order was issued, the owners of the company would have seen the writing was on the wall and moved their operation to somewhere like Panama.
They are not powerless, I bet They are already Working on AI solution to this. AI would basicaly Flag Suspicious Gold Transfers. It is very easy actualy. Lets say Guy buys Few milions Gold from wow tokens, AI can Easily See The source of His gold, so It would Not flag it. But lets say He is suddenly invited to A random Guild and Picks up Large sum of Gold From the vault. Yea that is Sus. AI could Easily tell difference From someone who only buys Tokens To buy Boosts, That is completely Within TOS as Wow token is blizzard approved and Legit.
2023 people still crying about RMT. Company is registered on Cyprus (and we all know why companies are being registered there) so nobody can do nothing about closing them or sue them. RMT keeps peoples interest on MMOs, thats undeniable and blizz could already capitalize hard on it if they werent such ignorant.
I’m glad RMT industry is growing fast and actually respect this company making hundreds of millions every month.
Cyprus is an EU member country mate what are you on about haha. I don’t want to make any comment on your other remarks because I think they might be breaking forums’ ToS.
Ah yes, thats why almost every shady business company in the world is registered there. Please take off those pink glasses already, EU laws (especially economical ones) dont work on any of those little islands and US laws dont work in EU. Speaking of laws, I cant remember any law of any country of the world that forbids RMT (maybe in South Korea only but maybe not even there). And if we are talking about missed benefits laws once again its not in US/EU jurisdiction there.
Cyprus has several dozen double taxation treaties in place and offshore companies can benefit from only having to pay 12% on global trading income whereas non-resident companies can enjoy tax exemption on all foreign-sourced income.
I mean you’re sort of right, but also intolerable lel.
Yeah the overall video and the topic is completely absurd, according to similarweb they have like over a million visits per month. I don’t know much about any legal implications but Blizzard surely must see the sheer scale of this as a problem, no? They should track down these users who are supposedly spending millions in unison on RMT and suspend them
I think the main issue here is they’re not doing the bare minimum, they could take down the website from the copyright material alone in an instant but they just CBA
They are definitely not powerless, but they also aren’t working on any solutions and they don’t care.
It’s possible to fight bots, but it’s not profitable to fight them. The loss of profit from players who outright quit over bots is much smaller than the profit from bot subscriptions and the money/resources saved by not fighting them.
It’s not a pleasant truth, but it’s simple fact. Why would Blizzard fight bots? There’s no gain for them as a business. It would be flushing money down the toilet.
It literally doesn’t matter that it makes the game worse or players dislike it. Most of us will play anyway and our happiness is worth less money than just leaving things as they are.
Because people don’t wanna play a pricey MMO with a big in-game shop full of macro transaction and soft pay2win mechanics due to the wow token and due to how important professions are, where additionally, the developpers are not even bothering to stop the rampant cheating in various forms of content? Or where do you see the equal value exchange, when you compare wow to other games in the market?
We pay money, and what we get is promises and bullcrap talking, but not actual results
“Ohh oh, we deal with bots constantly with our team. We promise to work hard on it”. Ok, then why does a fish cost 1 gold? Are people fishing all day?
How to stop RMT the easy way? Blizz finds accounts that are 100% botting. Does not ban them. Lets them farm gold and lets them sell it to players. Then instead perma bans anyone who RECIEVES any gold from this flagged account. And the system can be automated. When the word spreads that buyers are getting banned people would stop buying gold as there would be very high chance of getting cought.
That wont happen ofcourse because blizz likes to milk their bots for subs, but cant ban them too quick otherwise constant new sub flow will stop.
No, it is completely legal, those companies even pay taxes.
The problem is that ToS and any other agreement that blizzard “forces” into players cannot considered a legal document/agreement.
In that context, blizzard cannot do anything apart from banning them in game.
Blizzard is neither powerless nor doesn’t care.
The problem is not black or white, as blizzard IS taking some actions. Because we have no info on the statistics from blizzard’s point, we can only do guesses on the statistics that “sellers” gives us (which cannot be trusted 100%, since there is a conflict of interest, as they could just be using “fake” statistics to advertise how safe their services are).
At the end of the day, we can be sure that RMT exists, and that blizzard is doing “something” for it, probably not much/enough. The probability of them investing more money into solutions for this problem seems low (mainly cause I do not feel that an investor would see this as a worthwhile ROI).
