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Blizzard is now removing wow items bought from third party site
lootdude
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I have been using a third party wow items site for a long time, never any problems. But my last order got removed by Gamemaster today when I was doing restoration some items on my alt character, the order was placed and delivered 1 month ago.
They said the items were stolen from another players and have been returned to them. I m very confused that why they didn’t removed the items at first when I received the order, but took them when I restored my items, I trust the third party site, I have at least 80 orders from them.
Have you guys ever had this issue? Can you guys give me any advice.
What are the chances of them checking all my characters now?
What do you think made them all of a sudden tonight?
Below is the blizzard’s email
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From: <[email protected]>
Date: April 17, 2018 at 1:20:20 AM AST
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: World of Warcraft - Account Action Notification
Greetings,
Account Name: WOW1
We are writing to notify you that a character on the above World of Warcraft account has received items from another player known to be associated with exploitive activities, such as in-game scams or account theft. After a thorough investigation, we have determined that the items provided to this account was originally stolen from one or more other players. These items have been removed from this account and returned to the rightful character(s).
Account Action: Notification
Items Removed: Vial of the Sands*1, Mottled Drake*1
Our policies on stolen virtual goods such as gold or items apply to any player who either knowingly or unknowingly received in-game currency or other items that were originally acquired through scams, account theft, or other fraudulent activities.
Third-party companies that sell World of Warcraft gold or other virtual currency for real-world money operate in direct violation of the game’s Terms of Use (http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/legal/wow_tou.html). These companies frequently employ exploitive practices in order to acquire the gold they sell, and players who choose to buy gold and support these companies can be subject to account action, including the removal of the purchased gold or other goods.
Additional information on the negative impact of purchasing gold and items, as well as some important information on how you can protect your account from theft, can be found at: http://us.battle.net/wow/services/anti/buy wow items.
Any appeals concerning the above account action can only be addressed by Account Administration. To learn more about how Account Administration is able to assist you, please visit us at http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/account-administration-overview. To contact Account Administration directly, please submit an online ticket through Battle.net: https://us.battle.net/support/ticket/submit.
Regards,
Blizzard Entertainment
Occupy VoT, Occupy ORG, GO GO GO
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Blizzard haven't removed them because you bought them from someone else. They have removed them because the person you bought them from is scamming and stealing from other players.
Restoration clearly triggered an investigation. They need to trace everything that happened with those items for every report before restoring them.
Occupy VoT, Occupy ORG, GO GO GO
So, if you bought all 80 items from the same person on that 3rd party website, then you may want to be concerned.
I would start with contacting the 3rd party website to get a refund. If that doesn't work, you may want to initiate a charge back through your credit card, since the company sold you stolen items.
Just be glad that WoW doesn't ban for that type of thing.
Occupy VoT, Occupy ORG, GO GO GO
Occupy VoT, Occupy ORG, GO GO GO
Occupy VoT, Occupy ORG, GO GO GO
Occupy VoT, Occupy ORG, GO GO GO
Occupy VoT, Occupy ORG, GO GO GO
Since I don't want to get involved in drama, when I did WoW back in MoP and WoD...I bought all the endgame items from the hardcore raids, and was able to have a ton of fun playing. I got to play the way I wanted, avoid guild drama, avoid crappy pickup groups and enjoy the game. The site that sold the items won, and blizzard got to enjoy my 15 usd a month.
If blizzard doesn't want people buying end game items, then they should have a way EVERYONE can get them. Same with any other MMO company.
Personally, force me to do something in a certain way, I'm going to do any method necessary to play my own way and not be forced by the game designers to play a certain way.
My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-anime-overhaul
This could actually fix a lot of the oldschool MMOers complaints too about MMOs being too solo friendly. Devs can have an offline version that requires little support, and have the actual online version be MMO only with a TON more focus on groups and making it super hard to solo. Then everyone does actually win. If people want to bot or macro in the singleplayer version, only they themselves are affected by it.
Plus there isn't a singleplayer open world Warcraft RPG. So no one currently has the choice to play Warcraft as a singleplayer RPG.
If blizzard was the first ones to offer an offline mode (which many survival games already provide, like Ark and Conan Exiles), it could pave the way to remove "soloers/singleplayer fans" from the actual MMOs that dominate the genre and people who hate soloers can then play with like minded people and not be affected by solo content. The genre can then move back to a more social and group oriented genre like it used to be.
Which then goes back to...then the person looking for an easy way to get items without needing shady second hand shops wouldn't be damaging WoW anymore, since they can then just get it themselves without a group like they already do now by going to a shady site.
My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-anime-overhaul
SWG (pre-cu) - AoC (pre-f2p) - PotBS (pre-boarder) - DDO - LotRO (pre-f2p) - STO (pre-f2p) - GnH (beta tester) - SWTOR - Neverwinter
Anything other justifications you make to circumvent the system is cheating, plain and simple, and you deserve whatever punishment comes your way.
Man up boyo....
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Thats why games that let you buy items in the cash shop are far superior. LOTRO I can buy high end (but not endgame, as far when I last looked) equipment. Archeage I can do the same. Far superior method, since it allows players to earn it the old way or allow players who want to "skip ahead" or want to avoid guild drama have a way to still get items through the in-game cash shop.
My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-anime-overhaul
Most illicit 3rd party sites do scam, if there are other sites that are more legitimate such as G2A, or Player Auctions they usually sell game keys then I would contact their support because players using scams or 3rd party sites to sell illegal items shouldn't be using the service to begin with.
Also you likely won't get banned on a first offense from (Blizzards games) just the items removed and warning issued, I would again file the charge-back against the 3rd party site and no longer use 3rd party sites.
If you need in game currency, you can now buy (WOW Tokens Legally) do not buy (WOW TOKENS) from 3rd party sites because these are often done with charge-back fraud.
There is an except of RMT though, although not officially supported by any game, you can find people who are willing to sell in game items illegally for real money, although they can still scam you and stuff so its best not to I've met a few players who have given me stuff on other games cheap and legitimate.