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A Plea from WoW China: The Effects of Real Money Transactions on the Game

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Reddit user tanyu1993 made a lengthy post about the effects of real money transactions that are supposedly negatively affecting World of Warcraft in the Chinese region. The post has gained a lot of traction, as many players corroborated his statement.

The following things happen on Chinese realms according to him:

  • The Premade Group Finder is reportedly filled with spam and advertisements, making it almost impossible to find a normal group;
  • Players receive dozens of whispers from sellers when they enter Stormwind / Orgrimmar and the channels are filled to brim with ads;
  • Starter areas are full of level 1 characters, advertising their services;
  • Player get kicked out just before the last boss in Battle for Darkshore to make room for others who paid for boosts;
  • Gold farmers have caused WoW token prices in China to surge drastically in the past month.

To support his claims, Redditor tanyu1993 also posted a bunch of screenshots on Reddit that we include below.

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Premade Group Finder

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In-game whispers from advertisers

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Starting area and advertising

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Bots farming gold

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Players getting kicked out of a Warfront to make room for others that paid for the final boss kill.

NetEase, who is operating World of Warcraft in China on behalf of Blizzard, is showing sympathy, but according to redditor tanyu1993, it's not enough, as he claims offenders often get away unharmed.

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We've been bullied by boosting sellers for so long and we are losing our Azeroth. We just want to save our world . We request Blizzard and Netease start taking care of the RMT companies and their spam ads.

tanyu1993

You can read the full post here.

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I may have a feeling of déja vu, but I hope they can quarantine this behaviour in China so it won't spread to our precious European servers.

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48 minutes ago, Badadada said:

I may have a feeling of déja vu, but I hope they can quarantine this behaviour in China so it won't spread to our precious European servers.

As far as i remember, we allready had this behaviour many many years ago and i also remember the level 1 characters coming into Orgrimmar, dieing at the same place and "forming" a goldsellersite in the air with the dead bodies. That was the most strange thing i saw back in the days beside the heavy spam / advertisement of goldseller-(phishing)-sites. And if the tokenprice keeps dropping, then this chinese bots / farmers will again show up alot more.

 

Its a shame how NetEase dealt with the worries of players. I mean its logical they wont say "Hey you are right, we will do that", but man their reaction was far away from being professional.

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Lol, on Russian servers this is just daily life. There are tons of sites providing boost/gold services and lots of independent players selling all kinds of stuff. I'm surprised this is something new for people.

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3 hours ago, Baharok said:

As far as i remember, we allready had this behaviour many many years ago and i also remember the level 1 characters coming into Orgrimmar, dieing at the same place and "forming" a goldsellersite in the air with the dead bodies. That was the most strange thing i saw back in the days beside the heavy spam / advertisement of goldseller-(phishing)-sites. And if the tokenprice keeps dropping, then this chinese bots / farmers will again show up alot more.

 

Its a shame how NetEase dealt with the worries of players. I mean its logical they wont say "Hey you are right, we will do that", but man their reaction was far away from being professional.

I remember the toons dieing and spelling out the site name on NA servers back in the day. I think the token was a good idea to battle the issue.

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Should this surprise anyone? Blizzard only seem to care about making money and not the integrity of the game, so why should the players care about it either? It's a sad fact but when the company only wants to make money then the players will follow suit.

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How is any of this any different than we're seeing on the American, and I'd wager also on the European, servers?  We're supposed to care when a lot of the gold farming that is hurting the economy here is done by Chinese organizations?  We're supposed to be sympathetic to the Chinese realms when it happens everywhere?  Sorry, but ... NOT sorry.  I hate that it is happening everywhere.  Sadly, it's never gonna change because each of those gold farmers buys software and pays a monthly subscription, and ultimately, that's all Blizzard seems to care about.  I used to report gold farming and other acts that I knew weren't legal.  Fact is that Blizzard doesn't seem to care.  All the proof right there, and they don't even wanna investigate it.  Why?  Because a guild that is doing it with 18 players (all alts) is roughly $39.99 plus taxes for software.... so ya got $40 x 18 toons = $720 plus each of those 18 toons paying subscriptions = another $288 per month on top of this... They allow it because it's money in their pockets.  So what if it ruins others' game experience-- you'll be back.  We're all gamer junkies because they know we'll eventually come back for the "fix".  THEY. DO. NOT. CARE.

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17 hours ago, Nykolaz said:

How is any of this any different than we're seeing on the American, and I'd wager also on the European, servers?  We're supposed to care when a lot of the gold farming that is hurting the economy here is done by Chinese organizations?  We're supposed to be sympathetic to the Chinese realms when it happens everywhere?  Sorry, but ... NOT sorry.  I hate that it is happening everywhere.  Sadly, it's never gonna change because each of those gold farmers buys software and pays a monthly subscription, and ultimately, that's all Blizzard seems to care about.  I used to report gold farming and other acts that I knew weren't legal.  Fact is that Blizzard doesn't seem to care.  All the proof right there, and they don't even wanna investigate it.  Why?  Because a guild that is doing it with 18 players (all alts) is roughly $39.99 plus taxes for software.... so ya got $40 x 18 toons = $720 plus each of those 18 toons paying subscriptions = another $288 per month on top of this... They allow it because it's money in their pockets.  So what if it ruins others' game experience-- you'll be back.  We're all gamer junkies because they know we'll eventually come back for the "fix".  THEY. DO. NOT. CARE.

I was going to say I think this "plea" is falling on deaf ears not only because of what's going on right now but because of how it affects all of us not just them. 

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The thing is I don't think Blizzard can accurately correct the issue even if they were allowed to at least not 100%....I say this because for Blizzard to be able to sell any product over in China they had to get it ok through the Chinese government but the government in itself regulated the product through their own sources not just Blizzard's.  I am only mentioning this because I remember several years ago where this was a bit of a big deal and was on national news.  I think this was during WotLK era following up about gaming addiction toward the end of Cataclysm and the beginning of MoP.

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