We have recently noticed an influx in the number of people purchasing and selling gold across all expansions. We have developed and deployed systems in place across our expansions to track potential sellers and buyers! The main issue is that the sellers have been using exploits in-game (which have been corrected) to gain an enormous amount of gold, increased the number of accounts compromised, and have a bad influence on the in-game economy.
Along with the ban of all their accounts, we can't just ignore the fact players were also supporting them by purchasing their gold. With that being said, we have suspended more than 800 accounts for 30 days and the gold on their accounts have been reset. Most third party sites are using phishing attempts in order to retrieve your account information and sometimes even hack your account to sell gold.
We take this issue very seriously, anyone caught buying items, gold, etc. from third party websites for real life currency will result in a permanent account closure. The only place where you can get in-game goods (items, gold, mounts etc.) from is our official shop. Our shop is located on our website at https://firestorm-servers.com/.