Blizzard and PayPal Party Up Against Gold Sellers

[Pedis]

Have you looked at the price of selling gold lately? I think that Blizzard has put quite the hamper on gold selling without selling gold themselves.

yea i just saw ill give it a week or so then we are back at normal

 

[lostsk8r]

Who used the same E-Mails for Paypal and for Blizzard?? So how should Blizzard know who is a "known Goldseller"?

They will run in some legal Problems in EU

Ha, my paypal email is linked to an account I bought that the owner took back, hope they ban his ass Havent had my paypal touched, I'm not sure how they would tell me I sell gold, sure I get money from some chinese names, but not all of them are chinese.. mixed with my ebay sales that arent gold related, and my credit card/debit card on that paypal.

 

[florienb]

The logical option: get 2 paypal accounts. One linked to wow if u are paying your sub with pp and one for payments for gold. Or even simplier. Dont pay subs with paypal

 

[Boobie009]

Paypal even though they provide ? service for people are all About making money themself. One thing I know for ? fact is That blizzard will pay paypal more than paypal would make otherwise.
For each sold account for example, blizzard couldve made well about 70 euro's instead of making 0. And as er all know blizzard is only About making money.

 

[Phenotype]

I just find it hard to believe that these people have such hard-ons for "getting" botters and gold sellers. When I bot I don't bother anyone. I don't ninja nodes, I don't ninja skin, I don't ninja herbs, nor do I ninja kills. If I'm grinding I'm doing it in out-of-the-way places where no one goes, etc. So, I really don't see why Blizzard are pissing themselves over what botters do. We pay their fees to play the game our way. If the player doesn't want to manually go from 1 to 85 by questing, instances, or whatever then they should be able to pick up a third party app and have it grind the hell out of mobs to get to 85. It only sets the player back since they don't get the rep they would from doing quests.

Now, I can understand screwing up the in-game economy because that just pisses me off. Sell to private buyers and don't flood the AH so that others aren't able to make a profit, too. Post a little bit up, make a toon with two crafting professions, make some things, post those. Do constructive things with your farmed goods. Don't crash the AH with it.

I just hate these "holier than thou" zealous anti-botting campaign crusaders that try and make a botter's life a living hell. Why? We're not hurting anyone by doing what we do. So we level the lazy way and you didn't think about doing it. Get over it, go buy a bot, and make a toon and shut the hell up.

Zeldrak, why I do understand what you mean, you will also understand that us botters and goldsellers do have an impact on everyone else in the server. Might not be that noticeable but we do.
Be the casual player that is unable to purchase items because they are so expensive, thus detracting his/her ability to actually enjoy the game rather than grinding, or perhaps the wealthy who buy gold and can afford said expensive items. Making it once again rise the prices, etc...

All we do in the game effect everyone at one point or another.

Now, if you still do believe you dont harm anyone in the process. May I suggest you create a private wow server so you can farm and grind to your hearts content?
That way, that only way you can have 0% impact on anyone else.

I raise my hand, I am guilty and I do manipulate the economy on my server along with some friends. Call it a mafia if you will, but we do this for fun and we know the consequences.

 

[Xanathos]

Any commercial company should be about making money.

 

[Xanathos]

Zeldrak, why I do understand what you mean, you will also understand that us botters and goldsellers do have an impact on everyone else in the server. Might not be that noticeable but we do.
Be the casual player that is unable to purchase items because they are so expensive, thus detracting his/her ability to actually enjoy the game rather than grinding, or perhaps the wealthy who buy gold and can afford said expensive items. Making it once again rise the prices, etc...

All we do in the game effect everyone at one point or another.

Now, if you still do believe you dont harm anyone in the process. May I suggest you create a private wow server so you can farm and grind to your hearts content?
That way, that only way you can have 0% impact on anyone else.

I raise my hand, I am guilty and I do manipulate the economy on my server along with some friends. Call it a mafia if you will, but we do this for fun and we know the consequences.

My earlier attempt at being subtle failed... But you're 100% right on what you're saying... Instead of getting into the need of selling gold themselves, Blizzard has made it that much easier for the normal person to have gold in Cata. So there's been less of a need for the "average player" or even the "casual player" to purchase gold.

 

[Tony]

I raise my hand, I am guilty and I do manipulate the economy on my server along with some friends. Call it a mafia if you will, but we do this for fun and we know the consequences.

Best part
I loled(in a good way)

But i agree in general with your post

 

[lostsk8r]

I actually began using my paypal debit card to pay subs, comes out of the same paypal but i guess cant link it that way.. i also dont like how if my paypal doesnt have money in it, if you're on a "paypal sub" it'll auto take it out of bank account, so i prefer debit.

 

[Bot]

Will they link PayPal accounts with accounts which use the same e-mail address to log in?

Also, so this means PayPal is investigating each of our transactions and sending the information to a third party (in this case, Blizzard)? Surely, this has to be a violation of privacy...