Blizzard has gone WAY overboard with bans lately and still fail to get rid of gold sellers, spammers, people selling store items, etc.
Their ticky/tacky interpretation of the ToS is gestapo-like; they don't care about individual players, and don't care if a player is wrongfully banned. No one cares when things like this happens to other people until it happens to them.
I lost an account that had been active from day one despite doing nothing wrong, and Blizzard doesn't care. The game hasn't been the same since. It's not worth playing an outdated game when you have to worry about every thing you do because Blizzard's gustapo might ban you.
You can´t trade with people who are in ignore list, if some addon handled the ignoring then its mr poppins fault sadly for accepting the deal by accepting the trade.
edit: ok so he took the gold and then ignored? That is quite typical action from a scammer and no wonder the GM slapped :>
Last edited by Demec; 2014-01-13 at 04:17 PM.
This is why he got banned. If this was an honest mistake (and it very well may have been) all he had to do was to return the gold and move on. Like he said, he "wipes his ass" with 1k gold, so what's the problem? This attitude that "I'm famous because a bunch of kids have nothing better to do than watch me play WoW and am therefore entitled to keep someone's gold" is what banned him. Maybe this will serve as a wake-up call. I don't understand what "principle" he thinks he's standing on.
Lol this is such a stupid situation. If someone put gold in a trade window and hit trade without me saying anything I would take it to and not give it back. GM seemed to have gotten confused and was probably pissy at how soda responded so he gave the suspension.
Streamers and other well-known characters in WoW gets a lot of gifts. Kungen could earn a few thousand gold just by walking through Org back in the day, I've seen more than one streamer just get a Sky Golem for free no questions asked. How do you think Swifty earned hundreds of thousand gold doing arena? He didn't, its all donation by fans and viewers.
Rather than arguing with the GM like a stupid brat, he should have just pulled the GM off his back by returning a measly 1k gold, for fuck sake lol. He could have avoided a suspension and 5 minutes of his time if he just listened to the GM and traded it to the guy just like that, done and dusted.
Last edited by NatePsy; 2014-01-14 at 03:25 AM.
That doesn't mean that he's entitled to accept someone's money in exchange for a service (a duel) and then keep it without providing that service. If he didn't want to duel, then fine. If he didn't bother to read his chat and just accepted the money without realizing what it was for, that's an honest mistake too. However, once he was made aware that the money had been intended in exchange for a service he should have given it back with no questions asked. It's called being a decent human being instead of a selfish, spoiled brat.
step 1: spam someone "ill give u X for Y" till you end up on their ignore list
step 2: trade them your X and run away
step 3: open ticket for scamming
step 4: ???
step 5: profit
Thanks for sharing this I'm sure it will be put to good use
You do realise that if you are on someone's ignore list you can no longer open a trade window with them....
Can't do this once you're on their ignore list
By this point it is clear that you are in fact the scammer here. Well done on bringing this to a GM's attention.
Enjoy your ban.