I think your anger is misplaced. You should be focusing it on the people who actually commited the deed and hacked your account. It was their actions, they should be held accountable for it.

Otherwise, isn’t that a little like blaming the Columbian drug trade on stoners?

WTB more random GMs…

I bet there were some dirty undies in the guild that day!

I, for one, would like to have a special option in the Chat pant (not just Report Spam) that says “Report Gold Seller NOW”.

But yeah, Blizzard need to make a big deal to new players about how wrong it is to buy gold – not only does it make another 10 players absolutely miserable, I’m convinced it also wrecks the server economy.

I had about 1-2k gold worth of enchanting materials sniped out of my bags. Right after I was hacked I went to the AH and screen captured the sellers suddenly listing 10 stacks of Infinite Dust. Sure, I got my gold and materials back, but I bet Blizzard don’t reverse the use of items that have been stolen, sold and consumed by other players.

I’m still at a loss how Blizz can do THAT, but can’t track down the folks who hack the accounts and the gold buyers?

Eliminate the buyers and the sellers go away.

Simple equation.

(though, as I said above, they need to better inform newbies about the issues that buying gold causes)

Blizzard must have a system in place these days as which helps to recover stolen account. I had all my gear mailed back to me for every character, and the Authenticator which was attached to my account has been removed as well as the 72 hour ban.

So I’m back up and running wit an authenticator in the mail. I still have my other 7 or 8 characters to fix.

All in all, I’m rapt at the speed at which things progressed.

(but never saw that Blizz note )