A player wanted to buy gold illegally on a Russian site in the MMORPG ArcheAge Unchained. He did this while streaming live on Twitch. He apologized to the viewers: “Wrong tab.” But the ban in the MMORPG came – even the gold seller was caught.
This is what the streamer did: AluQQ is a small streamer on Twitch with 500 followers.
On average, 12 viewers watch him when he plays games like Terraria, Path of Exile, or the MMORPG ArcheAge.
In a stream a few days ago, AluQQ decided to buy gold. Apparently, he lost control over what was shown on his stream. He told the viewers “He needs a second” and suddenly he was on a Russian gold seller site.
The streamer quickly realized that his visit to the site was going over the net and said: “Sorry guys, that was the wrong tab.”
In the Twitch clip, he cancels the gold purchase. But he did complete another gold purchase through this site and was punished for it.
Player gets banned live on stream
Here’s how it ended: The streamer was ultimately banned live on Twitch from ArcheAge Unchained.
Apparently, players reported him, or Gamigo staff saw the stream live.
The Twitch streamer then said he had “only bought 5000 gold”. That is a tenth of what he usually gets. The gold seller who sold him the stuff was also banned.
AluQQ says it was a mistake he has to own up to.
ArcheAge: Gold buyer banned for 12€
How much would that have cost? We tried to trace the amount involved on MeinMMO. We reached 945 rubles on the gold seller site.
The streamer himself, as screenshots indicate, paid 950 rubles, which is about 12 euros and 15 cents.
Gold Selling – The Underworld of MMORPGs
What lies behind gold selling: On a third-party gold seller site, players can buy the game currency gold in MMORPGs like ArcheAge Unchained for real money.
Payment in the real world is made through services like PayPal or other services.
The in-game processing of such deals often occurs under somewhat conspiratorial conditions in the MMORPGs, similar to how criminals in movies often meet in parking garages, these deals in MMORPGs are frequently conducted in specific locations or involve specific arrangements:
- These “Real Money Transactions” (RMT) are not welcomed by the operators of an MMORPG, usually violate the rules, and are strictly monitored by many MMORPG developers.
- Honest players are often annoyed by the spam from gold sellers.
- Blizzard introduced the “WoW Token” in WoW in 2017 to reduce such gold selling – they practically allowed players to trade gold for money officially, but under clear conditions.
We once interviewed a professional gold seller from Germany on MeinMMO. He said, he made $1500 a month at the age of 19, but it was a grueling job. In the end, although he had his own apartment, he was close to burnout.
