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But I just found this on Blizz's site:
What happens to people who buy gold?
Players who choose to buy gold and support these exploitive companies may find the purchased gold removed from their account so that it can be returned to the rightful character. If it was your gold, wouldn’t you want it back?
So... worse case scenario, you lose the gold you bought. If you're prepared to buy gold in the first place, this is hardly much of a disincentive - perhaps if they reset your main to zero wealth and green gear it would have an impact, but then they might quit and Blizz loses yet another subscriber!
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Seems a fair way to go about it. They are out the money, real money. Perhaps they are rich enough that real money means nothing to them. I don't know many people that would not think twice if there was a risk of losing what they paid for. Still I would like to see a month ban or something to put a little more sting into it. As with drugs you will never stop the supply if there is a demand. The only way solve the problem is to reduce the demand.
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I'm glad I made a crap ton of money on the gold I sold.
Its now down to $10/1k.
D*#* chinese farmers!
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I've got 230k. It is amazing that I could sell that for close to $2000.
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I've got 230k. It is amazing that I could sell that for close to $2000.
If I had that and someone offered I'd take it, for sure.
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Quazimortal posted:
-Mithan- posted:
I've got 230k. It is amazing that I could sell that for close to $2000.
If I had that and someone offered I'd take it, for sure.
Ya I probably would too come to think about it.
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-Mithan- posted:
Quazimortal posted:
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I've got 230k. It is amazing that I could sell that for close to $2000.
If I had that and someone offered I'd take it, for sure.
Ya I probably would too come to think about it.
The best part about it is that you could do it without any risk of banning or action against your account. Just keep the talk about the transaction off anything they can collect information from and then have a fake conversation in-game about how you want to 'start from scratch and want to help someone out'. 
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"returned to the rightful character."
So, you can farm gold, sell it, report the person, and get the gold back?
Interesting.
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Quazimortal posted:
The best part about it is that you could do it without any risk of banning or action against your account. Just keep the talk about the transaction off anything they can collect information from and then have a fake conversation in-game about how you want to 'start from scratch and want to help someone out'. mischief
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"returned to the rightful character."
So, you can farm gold, sell it, report the person, and get the gold back?
Interesting.
Sometimes I can't decide whether to be worried about the way your minds work or admire the way your minds work. LOL
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"returned to the rightful character."
So, you can farm gold, sell it, report the person, and get the gold back?
Interesting.
Yeah, go ahead and do that. Pretend like they can't see how the gold came from you in the first place.
Why don't people understand that anything and everything online can be tracked?
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Yes, everything *can* be tracked. That doesn't mean it is. Can you imagine the resources it would take to keep track of every single gold transaction in the game? I honestly don't believe they track gold transactions. If they did, they would have no problem at all identifying gold sellers.
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err...wait a second...what does gold sell for???
I have a dead account with like 500k or 1M gold there.....
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They seemed to cut down quite a bit on gold sellers on my various servers, but as of May/11 I think it was $3-4/1k gold, and like savings for multiples of 5 or 10, like $9 for 5k, $12 for 10k, etc. Due to how easy it was to get gold when Cata came out, by my guess, the ratio should be under $1 per 1k gold by now.
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Pantherr posted:
Yes, everything *can* be tracked. That doesn't mean it is. Can you imagine the resources it would take to keep track of every single gold transaction in the game? I honestly don't believe they track gold transactions. If they did, they would have no problem at all identifying gold sellers.
In a modern system there is no real issue in collecting and storing every transaction and conversation.
The real problem is, having the tools to make good use of that collected information
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-Mithan- posted:
Quazimortal posted:
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I've got 230k. It is amazing that I could sell that for close to $2000.
If I had that and someone offered I'd take it, for sure.
Ya I probably would too come to think about it.
yeah... can't say it violates my moral compass, haha
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