Guild Wars 2

Gold buying is against TOS, but my can my friends send me money without mistaking it from gold buying?

depending on the amount of gold you should be save from that happening

I would guess it’s safe. Why would the mail system have the option to send money if people aren’t allowed to use it

You should be fine depending on the amount of gold moving hands. If he is sending you 5g nothing will happen, but if he sends 500g, it would probably be flagged and they would look into where the gold came from.

You will be banned if your friends bought gold then sent you gold.

They look at where the gold came from who it came from etc etc.

But no you wont be banned from friends sending you gold, unless they bought 20 gold then sent you 20 gold.

So hope your friends are legit.

Namu.5712:

You will be banned if your friends bought gold then sent you gold.

They look at where the gold came from who it came from etc etc.

But no you wont be banned from friends sending you gold, unless they bought 20 gold then sent you 20 gold.

So hope your friends are legit.

Well hopefully they don’t do that because that would be really stupid. How is anyone supposed to know where the gold came from? Even if I asked and he told me it was legit gold, but it really wasn’t, how is that my fault? If that guy gave 50 people all 5 gold each, are they really going to ban all those 50 innocent accounts? If anything, they should just take the gold away.

I have never been paranoid playing a game before, but this is way over the top. I just want to play a game without having to worry about anything I do risking a ban. It’s way too big brotherish.

Predator.7321:

Gold buying is against TOS, but my can my friends send me money without mistaking it from gold buying?

Tracing gold isn’t that hard. Logs are generally easy to read and designed for this purpose. Even if you get accidentally banned by a careless gm, you can have it investigated and the truth will come to light.

On the other hand, if you really did buy good then there will really be no way to get out of being caught. Suddenly receiving gold from someone you have never received anything from before, has an IP in another country, and has a tendency to give money to lots of other people makes things pretty simple/obvious for the GMs.

Namu.5712:

You will be banned if your friends bought gold then sent you gold.

They look at where the gold came from who it came from etc etc.

But no you wont be banned from friends sending you gold, unless they bought 20 gold then sent you 20 gold.

So hope your friends are legit.

This depends on the game. Years ago, in WoW, I bought gold. (Young and stupid, I know). I gave part of it to a friend without alerting them as to where it came from (“of course I farmed it!”. Again, stupid move. I didn’t think it through.

Anyhow, I got banned sure enough. They, however, did not. The amount I sent was nowhere near the total of what I got, so I’m guessing thy either missed it or simply didn’t care. No action was taken against my friend.

Not condoning the action, just alleviating concerns that might lead people to be untrusting of ANY gold they get, regardless of source. Lol

KevinEvo.7061:

Well hopefully they don’t do that because that would be really stupid. How is anyone supposed to know where the gold came from? Even if I asked and he told me it was legit gold, but it really wasn’t, how is that my fault? If that guy gave 50 people all 5 gold each, are they really going to ban all those 50 innocent accounts? If anything, they should just take the gold away.

I have never been paranoid playing a game before, but this is way over the top. I just want to play a game without having to worry about anything I do risking a ban. It’s way too big brotherish.

Calm down, nobody has been banned solely for buying gold in gw2 yet. People are just spreading this rumor, probably hoping to discourage potential gold buyers.

I’m not trying to defend gold buyers or anything, but I don’t think false information can be helpful in the debate.

wintermute.4096:

KevinEvo.7061:

Well hopefully they don’t do that because that would be really stupid. How is anyone supposed to know where the gold came from? Even if I asked and he told me it was legit gold, but it really wasn’t, how is that my fault? If that guy gave 50 people all 5 gold each, are they really going to ban all those 50 innocent accounts? If anything, they should just take the gold away.

I have never been paranoid playing a game before, but this is way over the top. I just want to play a game without having to worry about anything I do risking a ban. It’s way too big brotherish.

Calm down, nobody has been banned solely for buying gold in gw2 yet. People are just spreading this rumor, probably hoping to discourage potential gold buyers.

I’m not trying to defend gold buyers or anything, but I don’t think false information can be helpful in the debate.

I’m sorry, what? Not one gold buyer has been banned for buying gold?