ToS needs to be changed to make selling/paying for M+ invites bannable

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M+ LFG system is in a state where you’re not getting invited to keys unless you pay.

I’m currently at all 18s done and the only way to get 19s timed is to either play your own keys or pay for invites to 19s because nobody is inviting you unless you’ve either got most 19s done or you’re willing to pay. Keyholders wanting to invite someone with high score is fine and it’s only natural that you need to play your own keys and time them to start getting invited to higher keys than the ones you’ve sorted out, but the “tips appreciated”/“note” meta is starting to seriously mess with how the system works.

Let’s say you have resilient 19s and you want to push 20s and you’re doing your own keys, it’s only natural you need to PUG your key (which is resilient) to get a 20 and try to time it. And ordinarily you’d just create a group and invite the people with highest score, ideal class, etc. But now these people have started inviting only people with both high score AND if they’re willing to pay, “pay for their time”.

This is insanely toxic and should be against ToS. If there’s a key in LFG system it shouldn’t be for sale, it should be fair game to everyone and not pay to play. The game is turning into pay to play with this stuff and Blizzard needs to take a stance on this and fix it.

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Its already forbidden. The “tipping” for keys part is included.

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Then why isn’t it enforced? Reporting these people does nothing

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I get notifications that action has been taken. Given the amount I’ve got it also included tipper groups that I’ve reported since I only report tippers and farm bots that make it beyond obvious (especially since the latter report count has dropped as I dont farm as much anymore)

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Reporting takes time but hopefully they start actioning people

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It does .many people who I know who did it got infractions on their account recently .

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LFG Advertising is always by some throwaway accounts fyi.

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I get invited all the time and i do not pay what are you talking about ? you do not have to pay kekw

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tipping ,gold donation all falls in it .
“Individuals and guilds selling boost or assistance in raiding, dungeon, or PvP activities for gold is allowed but can only be advertised in-game through the Trade Services chat channel. This includes any and all references to “tips”, “tipping”, or other synonyms of these words. Advertising for gameplay activities should be done by a WoW player-character who intends to participate in the gameplay activities. This means there should be no cross-realm advertising, and there should be no advertising from non-participating players”

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It falls under it. Not to mention Blizzard added this after groups started doing it. You’re free to test it out whether that was a “coincidence”.

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You’re right, mb

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Automated.

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Citation needed (other than one getting a notification after an account got punished in some form). Also then I would get more than the ones I get since I report the tipper groups on sight (and action wont be taken until enough actually report. A singular report wont do anything).

Mate I dont care what you think. Its against the ToS. It got added after they started doing it. Thats the end of it. Also Noboopings comment.

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Paying for carries isn’t against ToS.

The currency (irl money or in-game) is irrelevant; what matters is who you’re paying it to, which is most important, and what could get you banned.

The person who came up with the idea of buying Tokens with irl money to exchange for gold in-game should get a pay raise.

They’ve muddied the water enough so most players won’t even notice.

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Make friends
join a guild
join a community

surely by now at 18s you have a network of people you play with?