Akiwa asks Blizzard for a human review after reporting an RMT closure in a five-friend leveling group

On 10 November a player called Akiwa posted a ten-post thread on X saying their account had been closed for "RMT", real-money trading, after gold moved only between five friends in one leveling group. The thread opened at 14:51 UTC with a warning to other players, and near its end Akiwa asks Blizzard to "please just have a real person look at this."

What Akiwa says happened

Akiwa says the five friends, from Germany and Austria, took two weeks off and leveled together from 16 to 58. Akiwa lists what the thread calls all the gold that went between them. Akiwa gave a hunter 70 gold for his mount. Four players each gave their priest 50 gold for profession materials. The priest then gave Akiwa and the group's warrior 35 and 40 gold for dual spec. Akiwa says all of it came from quests, dungeons, vendoring and a few auction house sales, and that nobody bought or sold gold.

By Akiwa's account, the account was restricted on 8 November "while we investigate", with the restriction due to lift on 11 November if nothing was found. It was closed for RMT on 9 November, and so was the warrior's. Akiwa says the priest and one hunter are now restricted too, and that the group was two or three hours from level 60 when the closure came.

What the thread doesn't show

Akiwa calls the cause a guess: four players sending gold to one character, who sent some back to two of them, "looks like gold selling", and those two are the two who were closed. We haven't seen Blizzard's reasons, the accounts' records or any reply from Blizzard, so the thread can't tell us whether the closures were right or wrong. This is one player's account of what happened.