Buying WoW Gold - Does It Get Your Account Banned?

An understandable concern many World of Warcraft players have is whether buying gold can get your account banned. With over 9 million serious WoW players and an estimated 500,000 gold farmers in China alone, there is no doubt that gold farming is a huge business.

The problem, of course, is that Blizzard is against players selling gold to each other and have the right to ban your account if they suspect gold trading. To do this, Blizzard has a team of employees who monitor the games economy. If they see that one player suddenly has a huge influx of gold, then they are likely to ban that account. cheap wow powerleveling

If you just buy small to normal amounts of gold, it is highly unlikely that you'll get your account banned. Most of the time, it is only accounts that suddenly get thousands of gold at once that get banned - so if you are a casual player, you don't need to worry about it.

How does Blizzard get to notice suspicious activity? This is where it gets interesting.

Earlier in the game, before major updates had been released, gold farmers with programming knowledge were able to discover exploits allowing them to make a lot of gold very quickly. Now, Blizzard employees are able to see the WoW economy as a whole, and if prices in the auction house and across the game as a whole drop dramatically, then it is likely that someone has managed to find some kind of exploit allowing them to make gold.

Nowadays, exploits are much harder to come by due to errors being fixed by Blizzard since the game was released in late 2004. Earlier on, if a gold farmer was very lucky and came across a glitch or programming error, it was possible for them to make thousands of gold and then sell that gold for thousands of dollars of real life money. These are the types of accounts that get banned, not the accounts of players who just buy gold casually. cheap wow powerleveling

If you buy gold from a reliable seller, you shouldn't get your account banned unless you are buying a really large amount. Anything less than 5,000 gold is unlikely to attract Blizzard's attention enough to get you banned.