On October 27, 2026, at 10:52 pm Paris time, community manager Kaivax posted on the official Blizzard forum a message titled “Gold Transactions Must Be Direct”. It describes a specific scheme: a player buys illicit gold, the seller delivers it to another player, and that player then provides a service to the buyer, such as a raid. For anyone planning to sell or buy a WoW Forever carry when servers open on November 4, the instruction fits in one line: gold goes from the customer to the carrier, with no stop in between.
What Blizzard wrote on October 27
Blizzard says it carried out a round of actions against accounts that spent real money on gold sold by a third party. This trade is called RMT (Real Money Trade). Some of the sanctioned accounts had bought the illicit gold and had the seller deliver it to another player, who then provided a service to the buyer, such as a raid carry (a raid where experienced players take you through to the loot, for a fee).
The rule set by Kaivax: players must “always directly transfer gold from the player buying the carry (or other activity) to the player providing the carry”. His argument is that gold received from an intermediate player is very likely to come from RMT. The sanctions mentioned are account suspension and removal of the illicit gold. The message gives no figures: no number of accounts hit, no suspension length.
Does this text apply to WoW Forever?
The message is posted in the World of Warcraft general discussion section. It names neither WoW Forever nor any other version of the game. So I cannot write that it applies to Forever, nor that it does not: Blizzard does not say.
Two precedents still call for caution. On October 13, Kaivax described a freeze on accounts suspected of RMT in the Forever beta, which Blizzard plans to extend to all versions of the game if it proves itself, as we explained in our article on the economic freeze. On September 28, he had already reminded players that buying gold remains forbidden in the beta and that buyers are now targeted, as told in our article on gold buying and buyers.
The same text was posted on the European forum at 21:53 UTC, one minute after the US version. On the US side, the thread passed 24,000 views during the day of October 28. Players mostly ask where the rule stops: is an intermediary’s commission allowed, could an in-game escrow service exist. In the replies reread on October 28, no answer from Blizzard settles it.
A guild selling a WoW Forever carry: where the risk lies
Kaivax addresses guilds in one sentence: those that provide carries paid with gold from an intermediary “are at risk of seeing that gold removed by Blizzard”. The text mentions neither guild banks nor carry circles. What follows is my reading of the rule, not a clarification from Blizzard.
- Customers pay into the guild bank, then an officer pays the carriers their share: the gold goes through an intermediary.
- An organizer collects from all customers and then pays the carriers: same scheme.
- A customer pays with gold a third party gave or lent them: the guild cannot know where it comes from, and that is exactly the case described in the message.
By contrast, a guild where each carrier is paid by their own customer, hand to hand, does not match the scheme Blizzard describes. Guild banks deserve particular attention anyway: during an economic freeze, their use is among the restricted functions.
Paying or being paid for a WoW Forever carry with no intermediary
- Make the exchange between the customer and the carrier, in the trade window, without going through an organizer, an officer or a guild bank.
- If the guild sets a price, each customer pays directly the player carrying them. The guild can keep the price list, not the gold.
- As a carrier, ask the customer whether they are paying with their own gold. A payment from a character other than the one taking part in the raid deserves a refusal.
- Keep records: a screenshot of the trade window, the date, the character names, the amount and the agreement made in guild chat or messages. This is a precaution, as Blizzard has not said what evidence it examines.
Realms open soon, and our guide for the 2005-2009 veteran details what the return changes. Blizzard has not said whether a version of the message dedicated to Forever would follow before November 4.
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