Quote Originally Posted by 'Buzzatronic',index.php?page=Thread&postID=63699#p ost63699
If there was nothing wrong in Blizzard's eyes with points/team selling, then they wouldn't be making so many changes to make it much more difficult in today's patch.
I get the feeling that they don't like it, but they don't feel it's something they wanted to deal with so severely. Win-trading was an obvious exploit and something they had to try and put a stop to. Buying and selling teams can hurt other teams in the bracket that do not buy/sell points, but I am assuming that their investigations turned up that it doesn't make enough of an impact to harm the arena system as a whole. So instead of dishing out punishments, they are working to make it less effective.

I was teasing some of the trolls in the CS forum that maybe Blizzard was banning people who participating in buying or selling points and forcing them to go through the recovery process as their way of a mild punishment, but I don't really believe that to be the case. I think a small number of people who were on a team that win-traded, but didn't take part in it, got swept up when they were doing the bans. But the gear/point loss will be reversed if they contact account administration. People who didn't win-trade but were banned would understandably rush to the forums in an indignant panic, so it wound up appearing as if a large number of people faced this action. But blues explained that the number has been quite small.

I suspect that the tightening of the rules being done in order to rein in point selling will be further tightened if they feel it is not effective enough. Time will tell. I think that point selling is something that Blizzard would prefer go away on its own than something they want to try and prohibit directly.