WoW Gold Farming

Baile · Post by **Baile** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:32 am

coming to an end?
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... ost1912793

Post by **Lyion** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 6:29 am

Kudos to Blizzard for that, but I bet a few innocent accounts were scooped up and banned accidently.

Langston · Post by **Langston** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:19 am

Maybe a few. However, I suspect that they monitored the people that the community boards were complaining about... watching for regular large transfers of gold... through the mail or trading interface. A couple of times you see someone mail another person 1000g, you can start to formulate a pretty strong case.

Post by **Lyion** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:34 am

I wonder how many of those accounts were Yantis ones?

I hope Blizzard can make a dent in this, but I get the feeling this is a drop in the bucket.

Langston · Post by **Langston** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:40 am

Well - I know for a fact that two of the worst offenders on my server were NOT banned.

Post by **Lyion** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:26 am

Are they banning gold farmers, or gold sellers?

I dont like the idea of haphazard bannage, but I wouldnt mind if they just went out and found out who was selling and ban them.

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:33 am

I've noticed in the past few weeks that the AH hasn't had an abnormal amount of epics being sold by weird sounding names.

Post by **Arlos** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:03 pm

Yeah, the individual farming accounts are somewhat irrelevant, what's key though are the storage accounts. I doubt strongly that the farmers actually store the gold they make, they likely forward the money they get to some central bank person, who is the one who doles it out to the fools who shell out their real life $$. You ban the accounts with the 20-50k gold sitting on them, and you make a MUCH bigger dent in profits to the IGEs of the world than you do if you ban the farmers, cause they can just make a new L60 farm char in 2 weeks for < 100 bucks.

-Arlos

Post by **Lyion** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:07 pm

Except if the companies are smart they dont sell the cash from the accounts that make it. They have an unused level 1 they mail cash to, that if it gets banned wont hurt them, who also isnt storing any cash.

Yantis has been doing this a long time and most likely covers his 6. I'd bet these bannings didnt touch him.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:54 pm

Just make everything BoP, even gold omg~