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Originally Posted by Praetor  Eh, well, this isn't a case of "hey my brother's cousin knows this guy at school who totally got banned and lost all his gold." There are recognizable players from major endgame guilds who are saying, directly and without any anonymity or secondhand elements to their stories, that they personally had their accounts locked, lost gold, etc. I find that fairly credible. |
I've not heard of anyone lose gold who didnt receive "tainted" gold. Once people realised something fishy was going on with the AH a lot of them put items up for sale at huge prices, and got several thousand gold in the process, followed by an account suspension and loss of all gold upon reactivation. Were they exploiting? Its debatable, since auctioning an item doesnt guarantee it will sell.
I read some people got gold in the post, or simply didn't set a buy-out limit on items. That's a tough break, since there's no way Blizzard can tell whether or not they asked for it, but it's a dirty trick by the exploiters who figured if they spread the gold as much as possible then Blizzard wouldn't be able to get everyone. A GM ticket or email to Blizzard might work to get original gold back, but I wouldn't hold out much hope if you auctioned your nexus shard for a 9k buyout.
There are reports that not everyone was caught. As Blizzzard have clamped down hard on discussing the problem it's difficult to say how many got away, but I'm guessing it's only a temporary weekend reprieve.
