Blizzard says it has already closed over 2,100 gold-buying accounts in the WoW Forever beta, alongside almost 1,600 accounts involved in gold selling or botting. A temporary test is not an exception to enforcement.

The team also plans warnings around trades and mail to draw attention to where received gold comes from. Those messages are a future update, not a feature confirmed as active by this announcement.

The reported closures are beta figures

The account categories come from Blizzard's October 8 developer update. Keep the wording intact: over 2,100 buyers, and almost 1,600 sellers or botting accounts. These are not two exact numbers to add into a precise total of unique players.

They are also Blizzard's account of its enforcement, not an independent audit. The statement does not provide the duration or scope of every account action, and it does not prove that gold buying has disappeared from the beta.

What it does establish is that the developer reports taking action before launch. Anyone treating the test's temporary progress as a reason to buy gold is ignoring the consequence already being described.

Darkspear village buildings and shoreline in official World of Warcraft imagery.
Image: Blizzard Entertainment.

Portal tips and crafting payments are not automatically RMT

Blizzard distinguishes legitimate in-game service trades from purchased-gold transactions. Portal tips and crafting payments were specifically used as examples of ordinary commerce the team can identify.

That is not the same as a promise that every gift or transfer is safe. It also is not an announcement that using a crafter or paying for a portal is forbidden. Those are different conclusions, and neither follows from the warning plan.

The proposed trade and mail messages are intended to make players think about the source of received gold. Exact final wording and confirmed deployment were not provided. No player-facing system for certifying the origin of every transfer was announced either.

Account counts are not evidence against named players

Blizzard also says it is monitoring tournament participants and has taken action against some people. That statement does not identify every person affected, so it cannot support accusations against whichever creator or competitor is being discussed online.

Our view is simple: enforcement needs to remain consistent after this announcement. A closure count is useful information, but it cannot establish that ordinary players will never face a mistaken action or that the economy will stay free of RMT.

Do not buy gold. Keep normal in-game commerce separate from claims of blanket protection, and check the actual trade-warning feature when it is released. The beta actions are reported now; the final interface and long-term enforcement results still need to be seen.