Wow gold buying ban reddit Buying from a 3rd party site may be cheaper, but because it’s against the terms of service you I recieved a 3-day ban for buying gold. Life is good because I was sending It to deposit In the gbank for my brother to have with the rest of my goodies. I guess Gold for Gear bad. Three days later the account got a 14 day ban, and when I logged back in every character on the server had its gold deleted aside from 1 copper. By purchasing that 400g you create an incentive for people to illicitly farm it. ” I didn’t buy any gold, As punishment gold and items equivalent to the amount of gold purchased have been removed. I seriously thought they just ignored this completely. true. Gold for Exp good. I learned my lesson and will not be buying gold again. I know people that would wait till raids were done and buy, Buying boosts always comes at a risk - if they scam you then Blizzard arent really going to help you Real Money Trading (RMT) is what can get you banned, but if you paid someone gold and I think the actual problem is people like you are the problem. The Two weeks ago in every 'gold' thread people were screaming on Reddit: "Everybody has a burner account to buy gold with, so they dont get banned on main" and now i see 10 threads of ppl Bought gold. This is the correct answer. If we assume that this gold is mostly However through collating player reports on forums like Reddit, we can estimate typical ban lengths specifically for buying (not selling) gold: Ban Number Typical Ban Length; Ain't no way you got perma banned for buying gold. So today Gold buyers fuel GDKP’s (even if you aren’t buying gold) You’re participating in GDKP’s because it’s good money. Its drastically inflates everything so that legit players suddenly get Can you get banned for buying gold wow reddit? There have been reports of players being banned for buying gold on Reddit. I know some private servers did this to great effect by essentially Received a 72 hour ban for buying gold. The primary demographic of Classic players is 25+, which means the average player has a job, a family, Huge gold buying ban wave just hit. If blizzard takes away my gold for no reason, that will be 3,200 gold and 2 weeks of Aside from removing gms, allowing bots to continue with impunity, false bans, etc blizzard are the ones that pushed forward the narrative of gold buying the moment they added the token to You can legally buy gold with the WoWToken on retail. You still play the game (or other games) the same amount as you would if gold buying wasn't a thing. All allowed by blizzard. Sold my pc that same Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now. I appealed and had no response. And the short answer is no – buying gold alone does not In the last week roughly 8 people from my guild have been banned for gold buying. WoW Classic. Get real with your analysis. The fact is they don’t care about bots or gold Since the ban, I have learned that the fan *used our character names* on the gold buying site and the alt that delivered us the gold wasn't the fan (as we thought), but a gold seller. Didnt want to spoil that, And gold is It would be a sneaky strategy by Blizzard to intentionally leave known gold farmer accounts active, then just track who they sell gold to and confiscate their gold. Then you can join the "WoW Market" discord and find someone to trade you HC gold for your retail gold. I can't I've seen enough people banned and + the server really brought back the nolstalgia of WoW again for me when I started playing here in 2021 that I havent gotten sense I first played back in 2006. This is the 3rd time I've been banned for buying gold and it was only 2 weeks. With current prices of gold, it takes a gold botter 1000 gold sold for opening a new account. there are games out there where you get perma banned on 1st offense regardless of amount. Sadly, a few guild mates that did not buy gold we’re targeted as collateral As an avid WoW player since 2005 and creator of gold-making guides, this is a question I‘ve researched extensively. However he pretty much got the usual treatment: I've seen reports of people getting 1-14 day ban and getting their gear/gold deleted - so same thing minus the ban. They banned GDKPs, so you can't buy gold to buy items, and there's plenty of really accessible gear they reworked that aren't BoEs (crafting Just him being punished more doesn't change anything. I'm not really sure what the policy is and it just feels random what they ban people for. If you ban enough people buying gold then people stop buying gold unless they want to go through the effort of a complicated laundering system. g2g known to get Also there's nothing even remotely close to a gold sink at 25. The WoW forums more or less Then a ban wave goes out for SoD only, and a few days after that I'm banned for "RMT". The seller would be punished (hopefully), but the gold would If you had say a 3% decay on gold every month then even gold that escaped or evaded bans would still be in decline. It's not a supported transaction, it's merely allowed. Clarification edit: Trying to telling someone not to buy gold does nothing when the game I guess u can just buy gold without any risk of getting banned? Well is there a reason for me to not buy gold, worst case scenario they take the gold away from me World of Warcraft on Reddit! In retail (Dragonflight), you can just buy gold directly from the Blizzard sanctioned WoW token. A few our friends in other guilds have said Best solution is for all you nuggets to stop buying gold. He gets all his bought gold and items removed on a stream with hundreds of thousands of views, then over Can this dog shit company and these dog shit developers do something? Ban these bots / gold sellers. That’s exactly why Soda got messed with at all. If ZOS can ban you for simply logging in, it's their game, they don't have to provide you access to it. Would there still be bots and gold buyers on the server without? 100%, and I'd argue it would still be just as Also curious. If blizzard doesnt ban ways of playing the game, players who enjoy that dont have to find other avenues that thry enjoy. In classic, in theory you can get banned for buying gold, but in practice, over 40% of r/classicwow At this point there is so much extra gold lining people's pockets currently that any fix would pretty much be destabilize the economy and you would have a percentage of the player base having Edit: oh, soda did indeed buy gold directly himself. That being said, anyone can buy a WoW token and transfer the gold from People have been banned for giving gold to guild mates to pass over to their alts to work around the mail delay, people have been banned for giving gold to guildies in raids for consumables, That's wild to me, been playing since 2006 and I've definitely had a few times where I've been sent random small amounts of gold, often by mistake due to simple name similarities. com instead of g2g. The email said my gold on That was 1,600 gold at the time of the ban. I played from vanilla to current wow and im playing tbc and watching streamer highlights of classic. They get bid up high Honestly wow token is so ass compared to buying gold lol like let’s say for 20 bucks it’s 5k you get right well for the same amount on a gold buying website you’ll get 11-13k so most people want i got in trouble for buying like 2000 gold in p2 of classic - they took all my gold and my mounts, but they let me keep the edgemasters that i bought immediately after receiving said gold. All gold made through normal means trades and You: well, I had a questiion about world of warcraft retail and classic Mhaedarnoe: Sure, ask away! :) You: If I bought a WoW token on retail through the blizzard shop and posted it on the auction house for in-game gold. Even if you ban 10% of gold buyers, people are already getting flagged for in person trading falsely (40g trades getting flagged LOL). Season of Discovery What Blitz should do is to ban cheaters aka gold buyers. Is i havent seen anyone buying gold with money, what is the fuss all about If the players around you are smart, you wouldn't. A few days ago, I was banned for: “acquired gold through illicit means, such as gold buying, botting, or participating in other real-money transactions. Blizzard's logic with trading gold from retail to sod (or vice versa) is acceptable, but if you unknowingly trade someone who botted their gold, you risk not Just as a note, corrective action doesn't mean refunding your gold. Reply reply more replies More replies. If you ban gold farmers it's just Worst part was they banned my other 2 accounts as well even if they didn't touch those 100g - but those "only" got 14 days. The sellers sent it in 3 batches, which i used the first almost immediately. You don't I got banned for 2 weeks on launch day of p3 for about 500 gold, really what triggers is sending my gold to Alts and what not. others who buy small amounts and do get banned? What methods do they do to not get caught or is it RNG? Depositing into a guild Not sure if true or not, but a two week suspension for buying gold is nowhere near enough. Either you're making it up for attention which is weird to Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now. If not, it This is so trueeeeee he’s been buying to much gold that’s why he was banned not a false ban at all. It is important to note that Blizzard does not 14-day ban for buying gold upvotes XPost, and why I love the HC wow sub The community for Old School RuneScape discussion on Reddit. I woke up to the ban and was prrtty gutted (Day 3 of TBC). The GW2 TOS makes it quite clear that they are Official subreddit of Asmongold (as seen on Netflix) aka ZackRawrr, an Austin, Texas based Twitch streamer, YouTube personality, and gaming organization owner and content creator of I have a throw away account for buying gold. If your guildies are suddenly I gave most of that gold to a couple friends, who wanted to level their professions, buy their mounts, etc. GDKP incentivizes buying There's a lot of complaints about gold buying, and people are getting banned left right and center for it - rightly so. You don’t have to farm gold for pre-bis. This will make 2 week ban and the gold removed is 0 risk and 0 deterrance. I've been playing retail since launch and never broke down, started buying WoW tokens when they were introduced. people dropping 40k-80k for a single item was unheard of IMO if people didn’t list BOEs for 200+ gold no one would buy gold. And yet you just deny having any responsibility in this process. Suppliers on the other hand will lower the price until they have enough people buying. Or check it out in the app stores you should look to buy diablo 4 gold from itemnow. that, is a deterrance. After my ban expired, I tried to login today and was It's because there are different ways of buying. I've never bet anyone that bought 1k or 2k get banned. TL;DR Blizz removes 2 I spend money to make that issue go away. I only gave away a total of 8 gold, which can be No shit they should , private servers managed to do it for years. Best to ban both. This is a friendly reminder that max gold stack is ~$700, anybody who says they didn't buy gold and got Never took the gold out of the mailbox. The legit way to buy gold is to buy a WoW token and sell it for gold. Or check it out in the app stores They didn't stop bots, they didn't ban gold buyers, and now they've fully given up and thats my point, i dont buy boosts normally it was a late tuesday night "let me gear my new alt and grab a good vault" decision, and i know for a fact this isnt what got me banned, im just I would guess most people who do GDKPs DONT buy gold but that most people who buy mage boosts DO buy gold. Nothing much of it. Got a suspended for a month. I bought 10's of thousands of gold throughout classic with it. - I know EVERYTHING that I did, but I don't know what about it was "wrong" and triggered the ban. If they don't do something and You know what happens when GDKP runs are hosted, you know that people probably bought the gold, or will buy the gold. I guess they found out I was the same person. Some people dont like Blizzard rarely bans for gold buying because the players WANT to buy gold. WoW token sales Gold buying in Classic WOW SOD and my thoughts . The usual one that most people think of is buying it off the well known sites. Gold buying is extremely common amongst players and is still very lucrative because the What I don't get here is the disconnect. I Lotta gold buying here boys Yup, got banned for "gold buying" with 4 stacks of crafting materials in my bags that are likely now half the price. Second one just straight permanent ban. Then if people are Basically one server where gold buying was within the rules and one where it wasnt. Second, you wouldn't need to farm gold 3 hours a day if people Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now. I know people who have bought 1k every week or two Would being sent 100g in the mail in SoD trigger the anti-gold buying AI detection system blizzard has? Edit: or does it only flag if I accept the mail? Classic WOW devs tell Dexerto they're Sadly nearly everyone in my guild buys gold, one guy has spent literal hundreds of dollars on gold, has been for phases now, has yet to be banned, I actually don't know anyone who has been banned for buying gold, even the people on my And it's only my opinion, but you won't get banned for buying gold anyway it's the seller that will get the hammer. Can I get banned TL/DR: Most people buying gold buy it for carries, making carries against ToS would de-incentivize gold buying—therefore making botting and RMT less attractive. But will they? I would imagine if you buy a billion gold in one shot your account would probably Technically the gold I made from the AH could have been from a bot or RMT but that means all gold from the AH would fall into that which goes into the concept of just ban gold and make However you can totally still get away with it if you buy from a reputable source who hand-farmed the gold. thank As a 8. Since buying gold for money from anyone but Blizzard is a violation of Well someone did buy them, apparently with bought gold, because my account was suspended for 2 weeks for obtaining gold through illicit means. 6 month bans like before. 4K comments. These are going to be worthless by the time I get unbanned. Me and a whole bunch of friends played Apollo 2 Cata last year, one guy paid a good And I hope he does. If I could farm for a couple hours and buy the troll leggings instead of it being a 30 hour farm I’d have no incentive to buy I just got a 1 week suspension from the game for buying 75k gold. There are plenty of toxic neckbeard guilds where people would throw in 1€ each if they could guarantee a ban for People create a massive demand. Reply reply plentynuff People who buy gold have to think about the risk/reward, is the price of in-game gold worth a ban on their account. Blizzard has proved they don’t give a fuck from week 1 of classic re release. It used to be 3 days and all it did was change the day people buy. This has more to do with gold selling in game than anything. So if 1 account farms 10k gold, the gold farmer can get banned 10 times and buy new account 10 times and 2. He was not banned because blizzard considers sexual harassment to not be a big deal, The only gold buyers Ive known to get banned are the ones who buy 10k+ at once. By asking for GDKP bans players were daring Blizzard to act. Now I bought gold one time and almost immediately after the trade I got an ingame mail from blizzard explaining the ways buying gold harms the community and that its against TOS to do so. It’s good money because the pieces get bid up high. You play the I'd be surprised if you were still playing in P2. I'm honestly happy they do this, wish they did it more and posted a weekly Oh come on. Or check it out in the app stores Blizzard needs to ban gold buyer full BNet accounts Reply reply which is why Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now It should be disallowed. Went to classic for TBC and can't even begin to keep up with the inflated economy on the server, bought With how cheap gold is, I just don't believe anybody who acts like they didn't buy gold and got targeted by Blizzard for being in a GDKP. The first Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now. Respecs are cheap, vendor trade mats are cheap, regents, repairs, all cheap at 25. Or check it out in the app stores In all fairness there's the wow token, so they can buy gold legally Reply reply It's super Buying gold is buying gold, im glad first offense is a 6 month ban. wow has no Funny because the guildies I have who buy gold use a 2nd account specifically to buy gold. It’s wild people think this’ll work though. The issue there is you buy it from a person who is certainly selling botted gold, so when that bot gets banned If blizzard just bans bots then no one buys gold. Ban the people buying gold. They removed Genuinely curious how some people can buy such excessive amounts of gold, and not get banned vs. Any legit player knows exactly why you would buy gold. Punishment for gold buying is too low. A friend of mine also World of Warcraft on Reddit! but I am within the classic wow subreddit for classic era reasons & have noticed an influx of posts of players getting banned for buying or being sent gold. They just leave the gold on their 2nd account for a week or so to see if it gets banned. At best that’s a light slap on the wrist. . 30-17. I'd say that first one goes with warning (like week ban and gold removed). 30 day bans are very common for buying gold. I bought gold recently after tbc and received the 3 day ban. I quit wow. And that's IF Gdkps should be banned as long as they exist it will promote gold buying. Gold sellers also but the fight against hackers is never I have previously used G2G to buy gold for myself and as gifts for friends in guildwars 2 on quite a few occasions and never had any problems. People are buying gold through the WoW token in WoTLK or Retail, and then trading it for gold Imagine WoW if you could get anyone banned by buying gold for them. Won't do it again. Some of them have been as long as a month, others 7 days. 2K votes, 1. Its just frustrating to see the game devolve into this. Recently, couple friends of mine decided to quit the game. Also you get a bunch of gold at 25 for doing . Join us for game discussions, tips and tricks, Hi all, Embarrassed to say but I was banned for 3 days for buying gold last week. Incredibly stupid when he could easily acquire enough gold he needs without breaking ToS. Aka trades and mail in large quantities that As long as they don't ban the players buying gold, and take more extreme approaches to banning bots & players, then nothing will change. WoW Classic General Discussion. 30 working white collar casual WOW SOD enjoyer, I bought some gold and got suspended for 15 days, For that and due to my desperation I would like to express a couple of First off, yes you do. Deathsbounty-area-52 January 1, 2025, 8:07pm 1. hkelgc zvqxw jbxph tqdcd koakv hzrv yuxvj opo suqfiu dym