I just saw someone posting a RMT boosting site on social media and want to know how I bring this to Blizz’s attention. I don’t want to post the site’s URL on here incase it leads people to go there. I just want to get help from a blue to see how I can go ahead and report the site.
Getting a site like that down would be a pretty long process if the advertising happens outside of Blizzard’s channels. I’m pretty sure they can only send a cease&desist letter through their legal team or something, don’t even know about that. Taking down the ads is beyond Blizzard though. Again, they’d have to contact the site that hosts those ads and demand them to be taken down.
I’m not even sure if they can send cease and desist. Running the site probably isn’t illegal and here Blizzard’s ToS don’t matter. You gotta know that as far as real law is concerned, EULAs and ToS are the first things to be thrown out if they’re conflicting with any law. They hold zero real legal power.
All Blizz can do is ban the accounts that do the boosting, but any real boosting service will be prepared for that, and you can be sure they’re constantly making new characters and gearing them to get them ready to be used to boost people.
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According to blizz it’s not possible to stop boosting or RMT. So move on.
They tried with token but it’s kinda half legalize RMT.
That’s why I said I’m not sure if they can even do that. I don’t know the law surrounding stuff like this so I’m not sure if they have any real action. Realistically the best they could do is ban the main bank accounts of this operation but that’s not easy since this is a clearly low-profile RMT operation and the accounts involved might change quickly.
Sadly you can’t do much and neither can they .
In some countries where u can’t prove that u are loosing real money(as the company ) in a legal court they can have this type of sites , they can’t shut them down on a legal basis .
Seriously ? Can’t they ?
- Contact sellers
- Buy whatever is cheaper - gold / boost
- Seller have to contact them in game in order to finalize transaction - you get his account data
- Track gold flow from / to the characters on the account
- Track rest of RMT group
- Permaban
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That implies banning you’re own players =)) , They went for the head with bots and gold sellers closing their sites and they didn’t won in a court of law .
What u’re telling me is like they should play detective . A company of this magnitude wont’ do stuff like this in 1000 years .
send a link to Legal@blizzard.com
also report it on the social media platform
Reply to the post and say that the site gave you chlamydia. People will see your response and be more likely to avoid it.
Didn’t they take down a bot company before?
Shouldn’t blizzard be able to trial facebook for advertising illegal activity?
And is it actually one, since breaking tos is between the customer and the company… so probably these sites are perfectly fine to exist, except in South Korea where gaming law is a bit different
Blizzard has emerged victorious in a long-running lawsuit against Bossland, a German company that creates cheats for online games.
The ruling also prevents Bossland from selling its wares in the US. This includes hacks like Honorbuddy, Demonbuddy, Stormbuddy, Hearthbuddy, and Watchover Tyrant.
As i said if they can prove in a court of law that they loose money yes , but that’s incredibly hard in a lot of underdeveloped countries .
Did they not take Glider down also… or are they the same?
No clue 
, the idea is that is pretty hard to solve this issue, i’m pretty sure we lack the laws on an european lvl against everything that is cyber , not to mention bot sellers (creators ) gaming isn’t probably on top of the list .
This is true - many of the rmt setups run from countries where they can’t be touched.
You can report the advertisers, they’d get banned pretty fast. Getting the site down is probably impossible, but banning the sellers isn’t.
Report them in game and you can email Blizz with any details.
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