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IME it's the opposite, where you could say anything and would never get banned unless you met some manual review threshold. You can be reported by a small group

by hhh 3y ago

IME it's the opposite, where you could say anything and would never get banned unless you met some manual review threshold. You can be reported by a small group and receive an automated 24hr (increased if recurring) mute regardless of content. This led me to stop talking at all in these games. Can you elaborate on cheaters? What kind of cheaters? Actual honest-to-god manipulating memory and getting some advantage? Or do you mean someone abusing an exploit? RMT is a tricky subject and hard to get right. Even in Diablo 4, on release if you just traded a 'fair' amount of gold (~30million) you would get an automated ban. I wouldn't call this not caring.

dbg31415 3y ago
Have they deleted anyone's account for buying gold recently in Classic WoW? Go join a PUG raid and the first thing they do on the Discord is offer to sell you gold so you can buy gear in the raid. It's all just GDKPs now. Rather than enforce the rules... ever... they just made it so you could buy gold directly from Blizzard now too. And there are still a billion bots endlessly farming dungeons in the game. Still a bunch of people running auto-hot-key scripts (or outright rotation bots) so they can parse. Check the AH, you'll see impossible amounts of fish and ore and herbs all being sold by the same characters...
- veave 3y ago
  Why should they intervene in RMT? If you want to buy gold that's fine, if not that's good, it's none of your business if someone else does. Also there are guilds that don't use GDKP, of course all pugs do it. You can also assemble your own raid and charge as much as you want and reserve everything you like. That's the good part of assembling a raid. The bad part is... everything else.
  - dbg31415 3y ago
    Because the game should be separate form my real life. If I can just swipe my credit card to win... it takes the joy out of it for me. I can do that in real life enough already. We aren't talking about "a lot" of money to your average adult. It's not impressive for someone to spend a few hundred bucks -- but it really is impressive if someone earns 300k gold all by themselves in the game. I don't want to play a game where paying real money is even an option. What you have in the game should represent your skill, talent, knowledge, and social skills / communication skills. Not your willingness to spend real money on a video game. Back when the game was real, I didn't know anyone who bought gold. I'm sure they existed. But in Classic, the very first PUG I joined sent a link to a Discord where they were like, "Hey buy gold, everyone is doing it!" And it just felt perverted to me. I get a lot of gaming is based on real money now... and that's a huge reason I don't play many video games any more.

by hhh 3y ago

dbg31415 3y ago

Have they deleted anyone's account for buying gold recently in Classic WoW? Go join a PUG raid and the first thing they do on the Discord is offer to sell you gold so you can buy gear in the raid. It's all just GDKPs now. Rather than enforce the rules... ever... they just made it so you could buy gold directly from Blizzard now too. And there are still a billion bots endlessly farming dungeons in the game. Still a bunch of people running auto-hot-key scripts (or outright rotation bots) so they can parse. Check the AH, you'll see impossible amounts of fish and ore and herbs all being sold by the same characters...

veave 3y ago
Why should they intervene in RMT? If you want to buy gold that's fine, if not that's good, it's none of your business if someone else does. Also there are guilds that don't use GDKP, of course all pugs do it. You can also assemble your own raid and charge as much as you want and reserve everything you like. That's the good part of assembling a raid. The bad part is... everything else.
- dbg31415 3y ago
  Because the game should be separate form my real life. If I can just swipe my credit card to win... it takes the joy out of it for me. I can do that in real life enough already. We aren't talking about "a lot" of money to your average adult. It's not impressive for someone to spend a few hundred bucks -- but it really is impressive if someone earns 300k gold all by themselves in the game. I don't want to play a game where paying real money is even an option. What you have in the game should represent your skill, talent, knowledge, and social skills / communication skills. Not your willingness to spend real money on a video game. Back when the game was real, I didn't know anyone who bought gold. I'm sure they existed. But in Classic, the very first PUG I joined sent a link to a Discord where they were like, "Hey buy gold, everyone is doing it!" And it just felt perverted to me. I get a lot of gaming is based on real money now... and that's a huge reason I don't play many video games any more.