Re: Is it "legal" to buy/sell gold or exotic items using REAL money ?


"David Goh" <do_not_reply@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Doing some Google searches, I saw some websites selling
> WoW gold, accounts or even offer levelling services for REAL
> money. Now are these "legal" practices or not according to
> Blizzard's terms and conditions ?? I mean will we get our
> accounts banned for doing such things ?
>
> If they're allowable by Blizzard, then which are the recommended
> websites to buy/sell gold or exotic items (for real money) ??
>
> David
>
>

Depending on how Blizzard monitors the game. It maybe simple for them to
check who has transfered large amounts of gold to users over the past year
or so (for example). If they find that user is using bots,cheats or hacks to
farm for the gold via automated means they will ban that persons account.
Now, if that person is sending you say 100g at a time (I've checked their
websites, one website offers 10,000g at a time delivered within 2hours in
game) blizzard maybe able to track who the money is going to and suppend/ban
their accounts too.

The last two mmorpgs I played did the same kind of thing when cheating and
automatd hacks etc got out of control. They did a big swipe of the accounts
after monitoring them for a few months and just banned them all. but it was
mainly dupped items that got them banned rather then in game monies. Another
mmorpg did it on a weekly basis. I guess these games wern't very secure or
they just had lots of cheaters. They didn't have to pay for their accounts
like you do with wow, so that may have helped the number of cheats. But in
any case, I sure wouldn't like to have my high level toon account banned,
paid for or not.




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