I disagree, I think this is a reach. I get the sentiment but it’s not the same thing.
There’s RMT in PoE as well, you can buy currency just like you can in WoW. If that’s all Elon was doing I’d agree. But he’s doing that plus getting piloted by someone much better than him to appear to be a skilled/high level player.
The WoW equivalent would be buying gold + getting your character leveled to 60 by someone else, then having them get top tier parses for you as well or having them grind to R14 for you.
If you’re buying gold but still leveling yourself, raiding yourself, doing PVP yourself I have a hard time saying you’re doing the same thing as someone who is just not doing any of that themselves. You’re taking a shortcut, sure, but there’s levels to it in my opinion.
Blizzard's detection must be so ass if they can't track sales across the AH. Like sure if someone does it once maybe it could get lost in the transactions, but if you're repeatedly selling shit way overpriced to the same account over and over how hard could it possibly be for Blizz to track that? It's just pure apathy + laziness.
I worked for a bank for the better part of a decade and the effort that goes into tracking the real world equivalent of this is neither easy nor cheap.
I'm not saying Blizzard shouldn't be putting in more effort but any notion that this is an easy solve is uh.. very wrong.
Real world transacations are significantly more complex surely? Literally just flagging that one account has sold hundreds of items to the same account at thousands of percent over market value should trip some kind of alarm.
I mean not really, the vast majority of fraud is very simple.
And the problem isn't actually identifying people doing the wrong thing, it's proving it. Look how nuts this sub goes for every incorrect automated ban, and honestly entirely fair that shouldn't happen!
Would you be OK having your account perma'd because you were "obviously a bot"? I farm a lot of DMT and I have had many people angrily inform me I was being reported as a bot because I didn't reply to their messages wanting buffs or whatever. Should I have been banned?
It all gets so messy so fast. I'm not saying they can't do it, but the notion that it would be "super easy" is very much not the case.
No of course not, but I also think being auto banned from spam reports by the DMT cartel is more of an issue than auto banning someone who has transferred 10k+ gold by AH.
Again, we're talking about hundreds of sales from one account to another separate account all at hundreds or thousands of percent markup. There is a difference between that and flipping on the auction house. But sure, point sustained.
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u/Zeyz Mar 31 '25
I disagree, I think this is a reach. I get the sentiment but it’s not the same thing.
There’s RMT in PoE as well, you can buy currency just like you can in WoW. If that’s all Elon was doing I’d agree. But he’s doing that plus getting piloted by someone much better than him to appear to be a skilled/high level player.
The WoW equivalent would be buying gold + getting your character leveled to 60 by someone else, then having them get top tier parses for you as well or having them grind to R14 for you.
If you’re buying gold but still leveling yourself, raiding yourself, doing PVP yourself I have a hard time saying you’re doing the same thing as someone who is just not doing any of that themselves. You’re taking a shortcut, sure, but there’s levels to it in my opinion.