Quote Originally Posted by 'Buzzatronic',index.php?page=Thread&postID=63192#p ost63192
I'm sorry but in my oh so humble opinion, there is nothing "legitimate" about buying a highly ranked team, then playing the minimum amount of games per week to leech as many arena points (resulting in gear) as possible from the purchased ranking before the team rating "rights" itself based on the skill of the players on that team.
That's opinion.

How many games do you think it would take for a 1400's SKILL team to tank a 2k RATED team? They very quickly go where they belong -- so, in essence, they can pay an exorbant amount of money to buy a new team each week, or get their buddies to help them relevel their ratings back up so they oh-just-might-maybe not fail so miserably the next week?

2k rating purchased team comes up against a 1600's team and fails? How many points do you think they'll lose?

In this way, I think it's fair. If they want to spend their money on a higher rated team just so they can tank the ratings each week and maybe come out a few points further than they would have in the 1300's bracket, it's their money. If they deserve to lose, they will.

Regardless of whether blizzard says it's ban-able, it's certainly not legitimate in my opinion which is why I have little sympathy for those caught up in the fact that it would seem such activities breed cheaters who wish to maximize their own profits.
This reminds me of... "I don't care if Blizzard says it's ok... multiboxing is cheating"

There is some hurt involved, and I agree. However, I'm hesitant to say that it will go away in 2.4. 2k rated teams are still going to re-make teams and end up with a brand new 1500's rated team that they have to level back up into their appropriate bracket. It's a problem, for sure -- but banning people for wanting to get the most points per week in a LEGITIMATE fashion isn't the right way to do it.

I think with the changes coming in 2.4.2 it could be assumed that Blizzard doesn't find points gained in such a way "legitimate" either, even if the practice of getting points in such a way is not a ban-able offense.
We'll see when the new rules come out, but as of right now...
Selling points is currently not against our policies, but please note that they are always subject to change.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...geNo=1&sid=1#3

Lynching a person when, as of right now, they are doing nothing wrong... That's just rather reminiscent of the behavior that we find so offensive from the "lol multibox is teh cheatzor" crowd.

Again, this is all my opinion ... feel free to have your own.
*nodnods* I do.