Blizzard Hits WoW Gold Sellers in the Wallet

[FogHornG36]

I just want goldsellers and those that buy gold for real world currency to die slow painful deaths with multiple diseases while tortured by a raping manatee...

I'm a simple man like that.

Realy? because they are ruining your world of warcraft game? That is so sad, although i guess if wow was my only life i would get mad when someone is smart enough to figure out a work around doing all the hard work that i spent 1000 hours doing over the last few years..

Nope, don't even play the game, I hate them for hacking private accounts and utilizing them for their means, thus assaulting private property, if somebody steals ANYTHING from me I'd like the chance to shoot them in the face (no exceptions, ever)

Hacking private accounts is not what we are talking about, its about people exchanging gold for real money.

Actually it is, Goldsellers hack accounts of their customers and others in order to sell items from them and obtain in-game gold to then sell to future customers for real-world money.

Buying Gold = Supporting Account Hacking and Account Hacking = Stealing Private Property and Stealing Private Property should get the crimminal a quick drop and a short stop at the gallows as far as I'm concerned.

oh ya and if you buy drugs you support terrorism. Not everyone selling gold has took it from a hacked account, or got it from a bot. This isn't about hackers, this isn't about bots, this is about blizzard trying to stop anyone from exchanging anything in game for real life Money.

Now im not saying that the hackers, and the bots are not a problem, but this is attacking everyone that engages in money exchange, instead of hackers, and bots.

 

[Myf]

Hate goldsellers, they hacked me not once but TWIZE >.<
And yes they totally ruin the gaming experience!.. frackin party poopers

 

[cefm]

It might be simpler for Blizz to take even the slightest efforts to reduce "cash for gold" spamming on the trade chat channels.

It's not that hard to put an algorithm in place that would flag certain phrases and keep them from being broadcast. The easiest being the word "gold" and a website address anywhere in the text of the message.

 

[cefm]

The main reason selling WOW gold outside the game economy is a bad idea is that further unbalances the game play. Blizz makes money off getting MORE people to play, and new players will be incredibly frustrated if the economy is inflated by extra gold. It's already annoying enough to deal with twinks in battlegrounds that are getting extra boosts from enchants, etc. from high-level partners. This is at least limited to one person's ability to manage different characters or his influence with fellow guild members. But to allow gold-selling would mean that a beginning character would walk into the Auction House and see the regular upgrades being bid out at 1,000g, when his quests are giving him 5-10 silver a pop. It throws everything off. Blizz makes no money off the gold-selling and will never do it themselves. What they make money off is new players, and they're trying to keep the game balanced for them.