Wow forums are blowing up again...this time it's win trading...

[Gadzooks]

Anyone here banned or had their S3 gear taken? Seems Bliz dropped the ban hammer HARD on Arena cheaters, and reports of entire guilds losing gear/accounts are coming out.

They are simply masochists - first they drop the bomb on RaidBois, now ArenaBois. I'm shocked the forums havent melted down today - it should get more fun once everyone logs in later and finds their gear gone.


Not me, my one 70 played on one team with some guildies for a week, and never got any S3 gear, and I know they don' win trade or sell or buy points and teams.

It was needed, arena was getting pointless unless you indulged. Go Bliz!

Belfaire is as usual pwning at will in the CS forums - I love that blue!

[Skuggomann]

Got link?

[moosejaw]

Got link?

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...17312923&sid=1

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...17382755&sid=1



There are 2 posts for you.

[Vyndree]

Yea, we know a few friends who are up in a panic. There's talk about people who mass-sell arena teams for money (which is not against the rules, btw) are getting hit with the "exploitation of the economy" banstick, which I think is quite unreasonable given the amount of blue posts around that say that selling SPOTs/POINTs are ok (though wintrading is not).

Even moreso, I feel bad for the people who join teams that have been wintraded in the past without their knowledge, or who left a team that later was wintraded without them on it. Apparently these folks are getting hit with the banstick as well.

[Crayonbox]

Haha, Serves them right for win trading!

One of those guys got everything from season 1 through 3 taken away. ZING~!

[Ellay]

All the really big point sellers on my server got hit with it, at least it isn't a perma ban.

[Gadzooks]

Yea, we know a few friends who are up in a panic. There's talk about people who mass-sell arena teams for money (which is not against the rules, btw) are getting hit with the "exploitation of the economy" banstick, which I think is quite unreasonable given the amount of blue posts around that say that selling SPOTs/POINTs are ok (though wintrading is not).

Even moreso, I feel bad for the people who join teams that have been wintraded in the past without their knowledge, or who left a team that later was wintraded without them on it. Apparently these folks are getting hit with the banstick as well.

I would agree about people who just bought a team that someone traded on in the past should not be banned, but they seem to be conducting a scorched-earth policy in regards to this issue - nuke 'em from orbit, it's the only way to know for sure. Then clean up in the CS forums for those unfairly accused - which has been happening.

Seems like they want to make all of it so toxic to be part of any aspects to it, so people will avoid it - and it'll probably work.

Could they have handled it better? Probably. This *is* Blizzard we're talking about.

[Crayonbox]

Scare tactics work fairly well. Just round 'em all up and nuke 'em all to kingdom come.

It's been working for them so far, don't see a reason for them to change their "make an example of a ton of people and hope they do it less" mentality.

[Eteocles]

Noooooo comment. Oh wait I just did...CRAP.

[Bigfish]

I wouldn't say its worth a permaban, but I would think the seriousness Blizz is putting in to the whole "e-sport" thing would be the writing on the wall to not screw with their system.

What I'm worried about, for all you people who know of Games Workshop, is that blizz will decide that they ARE the hobby, and start messing with things because they can.