Please note, that this article does not affect GameTag customers but those who buy wow accounts from foreign companies using Asian IPs. Moving from an Asian IP over to an United States IP almost instantaneous will suspend and lock your account down. As always our tips and suggestions are when buying a wow account
1). Use time cards purchased directly from Blizzard
2). Play securely, do not make a scene, or tell people you bought an account
3). Change your characters name
4). Change your characters server
5). Do not try to change the full name on the account
6). Do not constantly switch IP addresses
7). Always say you are the original owner
Blizzard Entertainment is taking the “Stalin approach” to those players trying to buy their way in World of Warcraft. Only instead of players being sent to the gulags Blizzard is suspending or closing their wow accounts. World of Warcraft forums are all a buzz, announcing a zero tolerance smackdown on real-world trading in the game. The recent “tow the line policy” has left 1000 gamers banned from the MMORPG.
Blizzard is not at all being shy as to why the accounts are being shut down. Blizzard is quoting their terms of use policy we all agreed to when we signed up (yeah, as if we read that whole thing) saying that ANYTHING that involves the selling of in-game items for real-world cash via sites including eBay. But after their big law suit against the guy who wrote a strategy guide based on his own experience and tried to sell it on eBay, they have eBay shutting down and suspending eBay sellers and buyers as well. Even though this has been happening in other MMORPG games like Ultima and Everquest, the Warlords at Blizzard have thrown around the big guns, and are taking no prisoners in the name of the WoW developers.
The corporate-speak official statement goes like this, “Blizzard will take any and all actions necessary to stop this behavior.” Apparently Blizzard Entertainment reserves its right to pursue legal action against you as well. Talk about extreme, like it’s not enough to just shut down your wow account, they still want money from you.
So you think it would be just the sellers who are being pursued and punished, not so. They were very specific as to also address buyers with a strict warning in the statement: “Please understand that if you do purchase in-game property from sellers on eBay and personal sites, we may temporarily suspend your account, and at the very least, delete the offending items.”
Even though this is a new enforcement of policy current reports suggest that as many as 1000 accounts have so far been closed within the first twenty four hours of commencing the enforcement. No doubt this figure is sure to skyrocket as Blizzard continues policing the real world. (Are we in Salem Massachusetts a few hundred years ago?)