WoW Gold Seller Exposes Blizzard's Secrets | Asmongold Reacts 

I helped manage a private ffxi server and we had plenty of tools to detect cheaters. The idea that a mega corporation can't is laughable. I have been convinced for over a decade that the companies are involved.

Glad to see blizzard helping to make small companies to give more people jobs *❤*

Blizzard doesn't lose money because of botters. For every person that quits the game due to bots, they have 5 bot accounts paying the sub. They would actually probably lose money if they got rid of all botting.

Blizzard can't stop making mistakes

moment when your "real job" doesn't give you health coverage but this company does

Always love learning about the shady workings of these businesses in MMOs.

The best part is videos like this keep being made, and Blizzard still doesn't give a flying fuck.

Tinfoil hat theory, I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard fueled this secondary market for their game. Would explain why 3rd party seems more informed about the game than the company actively in charge of developing said game.

blizzard is obviously the #1 seller of gold, it would be incredibly easy to crackdown on 3rd party sellers

You have to realize that if Blizzard banned all the bots they would loose all their subscription money etc. In addition they would have to pay people to ban the bots. The only way to get that money back would be to spend even more money to make the game better and attract more players. But nobody at Blizzard knows how to make games better.

I'm so sorry for all those people still playing this game

Man, when an illegal company treats their employees better than a billion dollar company.

I’m convinced they are intentionally letting classic go down in flames so they can drive people back to retail. There’s no way any team could be this blatantly negligent with their own product.

We had a guy from Kazakhstan in my guild who was farming an selling gold. Everyone in our guild bought from him to support this guy. He made 300$ a month in his full time job and more than twice that from gold selling

What happened to your RDR video?

What happened to the Red Dead Redemption video lol

Its painfully obvious these bigger game companies like blizzard literally do NOT GIVE A SHIT. Smaller ones like Albion online permanently ban paying customers for JOKING about rmt, first offense. I'm not sure which is worse honestly

Blizzard is definitely/someone at blizzard is 100% in on take

I bet this company has better working environment than blizzard itself

1 more video before sleep, mom

I could see blizzard devs quietly investing into this, would be a great incentive to ignore the issue.

it's amazing how much wow reflects the real world

Blizzard has been taking a cut of RMT since it's been a thing.

I also do not think it would be easy to find them. With that much money and resources they can just create new accounts like P2W tops up. And with VPNs it really makes things tricky. I am not sure if blizzard has a way to reverse track through their launcher. But that maybe the only way to figure it out.

Imagine if Blizzard just hired the Ascension private server team just to constantly pump out bug fixes and adding random talent builds every week or so, spend the rest of the week balancing it

I'm willing to bet that blizzard has their hands in the pockets of gold sellers. This type of bussines seems unrealistic without being symbiotic

Blizzard executives are getting kick backs by these gold farmers. That’s my theory.

*_I never understood why people bought WoW Gold, when they could just get AH Addons and take over AH on their server?_*

Wtf would want to play this game, knowing this crap?

Blizzard could be allegedly part of this whole scheme. Take 20-30% and let it happen.

How is 9 million WOTLK Gold a day not setting off alarms?? Most people playing WOTLK will never see 100k in the entirety of the expansion…. 9 MILLION per day…

Exactly why the past months playing hardcore have been so fun. No trading, no gold buying, no boosting (im sure some people cheat the add-on, but who cares there's no reward at the end its just for the fun of the journey). It's been beautiful. And i'm very afraid this will all change come official. Hey, we had a good run at least.

I was making $800 a month botting a 30 year old text based MUD. You're not going to beat the bots, they are two steps ahead at all times.

I'm from Brazil and our economy is not ideal, but we can pay for all the basic needs (energy, water, net, food, clothes) and still have money left over to enjoy a little, of course similar to how in the USA it's hard to work to earn "6 digits" of money in the month, but don't compare us with Venezuela and other countries. do not generalize.

Wel de part about 12.00 making money of of the game.. Wel diddnt you do that to and became famous in a way and rich af.. still doing it to this game by streaming and uploading content of there game where people give you donations and gifts, and youtube vieuws and stuff. Or did i not get what you said and you mean it in a otherway. Like put it this way. Isnt it the same donations. In a stream to you and they get nothing in return but content or a emoji... and some one give you stuff(like you do with content) in game and you donate money to them because its nice they gave you the stuff in game.. ( here is t trick. The higher you donate to more stuff you get) same like subscriptions.... I see it like that.. its both making money of the side of the game tho or what

I have noticed there was a huge uptick in GDKPs on my realm after the first gold seller video. Content like this is only going to make it worse and more accepted cuz wotlk nerds want to make money playing the only game they know how to play and these videos are basically 'how to' and hidden advertisment.

If blizzard tries to stop this then they will show how dead the game truly is . They care cuc*ked to this behind the scenes industry and they probably in on it .

Meta Goblin has 21k views for his video. You have 111k . You should try and do your own content instead of reacts and videos of videos that others make. Just seems a little unoriginal.

Would never trust anything metagoblin says. Dude is always sprouting incorrect information.

It would cost Blizzard money to stop them, and there’s no profit in it for them. The people deciding these things specializing in financials.

Would not be surprised if there would be some underhanded way for blizzard to directly or indirectly profit from them

Why they do not bring a program that detects if you are using bots, like valorant anticheat program or something like that...?

So did BMAH became scuffed, because people win bids by swipping their credit cards x more times than the opponent.

would you all be surprised if activision actually sold gold to their own game they dont even have to farm it. you could literally just create money out of thin air if you worked there just give gold to accounts then sell it for real money.

i just figured WoW let BOTs happen because the BOTs needed subscriptions.

Garbage original video, it has like 1 min of content and then just repeat and rephrase it 10 times.

Blizzard wins two times, at least, when they sell games and "second" market. Magic tg is the same...

The best part about working at Blizzard is the free breastmilk they stock in the staff room fridge, it's really good stuff!

There should be a way youtube gives the same views from a video like this to the original video.

Solution? Go full ID necessary. If you are not a human being, you're banned.

as a gold seller some years ago, trust me, it should even surpass the hundreds of millions. if you knew how much people spend on currency for games, you would be amazed. i've had a guy, just to have a better gear than a guildmate of his, spent more than 10k dollars per day for at least 1 week. by the way, its cheaper to buy gold and then buy the ingame subscription than to pay directly to blizzard. its a deep deep world, that moves so much money that people wouldnt believe. and if you think it is manually farmed, oof, not even close... imagine a pc with 20 tabs of wow open, all botting, yeah, thats the basics. now imagine full houses or garages full of computers. one other topic is why blizzard allows... blizzard is behind it. or do you think they wouldnt ban or prosecute every website selling gold. and wow shouldnt even be the most profitable. I was 14 doing around 2k per month with Lineage 2, and i was a newbie botting, imagine in korea and china. Blizzard wants RMT to exist because it keeps playerbase happy. oh and i reinforce it, its not manually farmed, NONE OF IT. BOT'S that you pay subscription, and if you buy the "wrong" bot, you get banned, but there is always 1 bot that is allowed by blizzard, why?

Blizzard likely gets a paycheck to look the other way

I'd bet a million dollars that Bobby runs the RMT market..

asmondgold nominated for new blizzard ceo bc no one gives a bigger f about it

Blizzard is a bunch of crooks. Time for some lawsuits.

what a dead game

You would be able to avoid jail if you donated to the DNC 😂

I think this falls in line with cheats that’s are sold and used in call of duty. It’s so widespread in that game and activision HAS to be in on it somehow.

Asmon would 100% like Greggs if he tried it.

I used to not like metagoblin, but he's been popping off 💪

This puts reckful ban on a new prespective

At this point, Blizzard has to have a piece of the pie.

It's beyond easy for blizzard to put up a trigger volume above jump height that auto bans accounts. copy paste them anywhere like giant nets. They won't, they are double dipping for sure.

Blizz is getting a cut of all of this for sure.

22:04 - 22:17 I think someone at blizzard is a fan of 2b2t the minecraft server and wants that form of gameplay in wow lmao

portugal and spain in south america lmao

I am convinced that the only way to fix this game is to promote cheats for the game. If it gets bad enough it may force their hand and in the meantime no one is getting abused by automation when everyone has access to it.

How do you Sue a company that isn't in America? You can make all the civil filings you want, but if they don't respond to you, you don't have any legal ramifications

it really confuses me that its not illegal to make a company whos point it is to make money by hurting another company explicitly

The copium is high on this one

It's too lucrative, has been forever, the creative cat and mouse game between the anti cheat/bot team and bot developers would have been insane. The only chance Blizzard had was to use the nuclear deterrent option and ban gold buyers, and we're talking about 6 months into perma bans, not some slap on the wrist. That would have dropped demand for it substantially because even if they only get 15-20% of the gold buyers it is one hell of a deterrent for the investment that is a mmo account.

Someone needs to make an MMO where botting is just the recommended way to play the game

The bots are free money, more bots more monthly subscriptions, more "active" players

I can vouch for Overgear. Once I learned that Blizzard couldn't be bothered to ban gold sellers, I decided I couldn't be bothered to farm in WotLK classic anymore, so I began buying shit loads of gold from them. I was getting 20-25k delivered via in game mail weekly and was never banned once. I've since quit classic, but I checked a week ago and my account was still fine. They really don't give a shit.

They can put an anti cheat that won't let the game run on virtual machines. they could have done that 15 years ago but they don't want to

Blizzard never learn from their mistakes.

Im almost sure that the most reputable 3rd party vendors are blizzard ran. Some even "gaurentee" no bans. Which i cant see howd they be able to if they didnt have an inside man.

You will never stop the Guild RMT and carries.. BUT they can 100 pct ban the gold farming bots. Literally 1 person could just go from server to server and ban hammer all day long. They don't want to.

Blizzard is taking % of the booster's revenue. Why would they close such companies when they are making profit out of them.

this is actually so depressing... like whats the point in even playing the game legitimately at this point. there's so many scumbags ruining it with botting and boosting that unless you do that yourself you're never gonna get to the top. this practice is literally ruining the fun of the game and whatever semblance of competition there used to be in it.

This is why ESO probably made a skill that you can put champions points to so you can get 7% more gold every level you raise it. You don’t start getting champions points until you max out your standard level. It gives people an incentive to grind.

Little late, but wanted to clear up misconceptions here. As usual, both assmon & the "gold seller" in the original video are missing a lot of details & exaggerating greatly. First of all, the guy never made millions selling gold. 2ndly, they didn't expose anything. They actually got SHUTDOWN by blizzard and then tried to go on a smear campaign against them....which also was ultimately useless & accomplished nothing. But of course, because it is fashionable to "lol hate blizzard", a lot of idiots watched their video & didn't think twice. If you actually do a little research, you'd know what really happened. But I don't expect many people watching this video to be smart enough to do that either.

The last 4 seconds perfectly summed it up. "If they dont care, why should I care?"

10s of millions a month haha that would mean they would have to sell to like millions of people, I doubt millions of people play WOW let alone spend money buying gold and crap

"people gonna steal shit no matter what - so from now on if you steal shit its not against the law" ah, azeroth is in california. now i understand

I got into this just to see how you do it. And stuff I med 70k$ in 1 yr then I stopped. I did not want to get in trouble so I stopped it's very easy to do.

Seems like an easy fix.... buy the gold... trace it.... ban every account it touched. Rinse... repeat.... boom done. Side note also.... i think if you farm gold legit you should be able to sell it. Ban the bot farms.

Maybe its a bit Tinfoil hat to say but, I'd not doubt that a Gold Seller making that much (Allegedly), money monthly doesn't just contact what few Blizz Gm's exist, or even some support staff, and just pay them off. Like, you never worry about getting banned if you never have the attention of the system you know? "Dude that guy is literally just fly hacking?" Said the player to the GM. "HUH? No that's just lag, restart your game." Replied the GM. I mean hell, Zack and several other strimmers have proven that even Blizz's Auto-Mod System is hot booty. It takes their 5-10k Viewer bases reporting them (At their command) to get the Auto-Mod to wake up long enough to Sneeze out a third of it's computing power to even warn them let alone properly ban them. One person going 'Oh that's a bot *Clicks report*' is about as effective as the Puts stick in Bike spokes meme. So some underpaid, under appreciated, job constantly on the edge of the chopping block because "its not profitable for us to keep you as staff" GM, would likely have no issues taking a 5k-15k+ hand out to look away from the screen every other month.

What AsmonBald does not get is that huge amount of extra Gold cause Artificial Inflation, meaning anything Legit a common player do worth nothing now, it forces them to buy WoW Token. Assuming those are veteran players and spending all extra money on WoW Tokens. 172,2 - 159,4 = 12.8 million $ per 3 months sunk in official way. 20$ per wow token means 640,000 Wow Tokens used for buying game Gold. Effectively means flooding the game with 4,7 billion Gold every season, 1,5 billion gold every month. It's Kotik incentive to flood the game with extra gold, so normal players will buy WoW Tokens when they need in game Gold.

We sold carries for real money and in-game Gil in FF14 in 2.xx-3.55 and I was the solo healer. In 2.xx, we had T13 down to a four-man and we could carry four people at a time. Square knew exactly who we were and didn't give a single shit aboot it. NCsoft, with Lineage 2, though, was busted multiple times for running gold selling websites back in the day. They actually had the gold selling websites listed as a subsidiary...TWICE...before they realized it was an admission of guilt.

Wonder if bobby has a % cut from those big boy gold selling sights? which is why he hasnt sued them. in theory he's losing money from gold buyers from retail since blizzard sell gold anyway ? SOOOOOO in theory he should be mad . UNLESS! HE IS THE GOLD SELLER BOTHER INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL

Minimum wage in Brazil is around 1200 reais. 1 dollar is worth like 5 reais around that , just do the math, playing wow gives much more money than a 44 hour week job. He is right, and Tbh brazil like have a pretty steedy economy bad as that sound, imagine venelueza, argentina, bolivia, whos have a VERY FUCKED economy, WoW is paying more then half of the jobs in those countrys.

"just make a fucking cupcake" -Asmongold 2023

RMT has been a problem almost as long as MMOs have existed. I remember a story where some moron paid $30,000 for a stupid sword in Everquest. When I played Final Fantasy 11, the RMT business was exclusively Chinese. They would farm NMs (Notorious Monsters). FFXI had a claim system where the first person to take an offensive action on a mob had claim to it so only the person/party who had claim to it could attack it, and get drops from it. I used to make it a fun pastime to harass RMTs by claiming the NMs they were camping, or if they had claim on one, I'd train a huge group of aggro mobs to them with a low level character and die right next to them so the mobs would swarm them. Square-Enix later made it so unclaimed aggro mobs that were a certain distance from their spawn point would despawn, but it was fun while it lasted.

This Gold Flood isnt defensible in any way. Im leveling a character in classic (vanilla) wow atm and joined a guild. When i hear them talk about things related to items its always about horrendous amounts of gold when they are pugging. Like 5k for a good sword… like wtf…. Even in Wrath back in the days, 5k werent that easy to come by. It was at least like a week or so of playing (in my case) as a casual. And in classic ??? Like 100k gold for a good sword in naxxramas. Those are amounts way beyond the average player ever had in classic. Most of them were happy to even get the epic mount. This goes so far that i dont even know if i want to get max level. Because all my efforts arent worth in any way if i dont buy gold on a shady website. Blizzard fucked up big time. Azamous did expose videos with proof of those botters way back in 2019 and blizz didnt care. Why should they now ? 😓

I wonder if these gold selling websites are paying taxes

hmm, RMT in Albion online was more interesting, its less but its not done by bots but by uber rich motherfuckers who just lift there pinky finger and turn 10 billion silver into 200 billion silver. one of these RMTers was or is a man named Syndic, the current leader of the . . . . TERRA alliance? idk they used to be called POE, and they where a HUGE alliance of slaves. Basically they had like 3 -5 guilds with a . . . . "Strong" pvp force so they can conquer and hold a large chunck of land and then rent that land out to smaller guilds so they can set up Hideouts for there people and these then play normaly, make money and pay like 10 - 20 mil per week depending on how many they are and how good they are what level the zone is etc. Syndic made so much money of this he could live of it without a problem, ofc that didnt last, people hated POE cause they sucked ass, so the great POE war cam about, and many smaller ones befor that, several big boy zvz guilds marched against POE, on the front lines there was Elevate hands down the best guild to ever exist, some others i forgor, the chinese who mainly focused to fuck over ARCH, who where an alliance of rats and mice, little critters that dont pose much of a threat but are nasty pests that overwealm you with numbers. I was in Tidal, the leading guild of SURF at the time, and we marched accross the intire game map just to take part in like 30 min battle, everyone stuck there dick in back then. Now syndics empire is but a shadow of its former self and doesnt do much anymore.

Here's some insider knowledge I shouldn't be talking about but now idgaf anymore. The fact nobody stops to think maybe blizzard is well aware and even running a majority of these gold selling websites blows my mind. Why would they do this? Profit, Taxes, lucrative money, etc etc. You're crazy if you think a game developer behemoth like blizzard doesn't have a chokehold on every aspect of their merchandise and brand. Even if this gets exposed, they aren't breaking any laws selling their own digital game currency to customers. Heard it here first.

Honest question though, how many people DO actually care about botting/RMT'rs? they can live in their own world. You can still enjoy games SSF or playing legit. I quit MMO's because i get bored, not because of botters. But maybe I'm in the minority?

this is how broken WoW and blizzard is, this is why you do not give your money to blizzard anymore, its not worth it, private servers are literally a better experience than retail / classic wow servers owned by blizzard, in warmane they do ban waves everyday towards bots/gold bots and ninja looters. if you wanna play wow, get on a private server, or make an offline server, i play wotlk offline, and i dont miss people or blizzard.