That is amazing and something that has always annoyed me. Yay for Blizzard for once.

Thank you dear Lord :D

exactly what is win trading?

Win trading is basicly like i tell you to loose the matches against me so i get more Rating and u get gold

well that doesn't sound horribly bad. i mean, what if ur team just really sucks? is blizzard going to take stuff away for that? cuz u can't win and maybe u just happen to b matched up against a really good group repeatedly?

i've never played an arena match, the losers get gold?

They Ban there customers thats money they will loose, but oh well they have so many players it dose not matter

Все верно, нечего одеватся всяким нубам, ато бля взяли привычку за деньги можно все!

Win trading is when you make a deal with other teams to choose who will win. So like let's say:

Team A: Hey team B, tonight we win and we'll let you win next time, and so on.
Team B: Ok! We'll make sure to just stand there!

-Of course theres more than just usually 2 teams. But this is just so you get the idea.

It's more enjoyable for the general WoW PvP community to play equally (or as close as possible), than have people go cheat.
It's like that exploit to C'thun's room, just because they wanted specific gear.

I forgot to mention that also sometimes arena teams will pay other teams to purposely lose to them, so they can get ranking while the losing team gets gold.

good! That's what I say. Weed out the win traders and let the true cream rise to the top.

Whilst I can see how this increases the levels of competition in Arena and punished those who artificially increase their arena ratings, I can also see the torrent of protest that will acompany this action.

I sincerely hope that Blizzard introduce more systems to make win trading a lot harder as taking this approach may well lead to suspensions and bannings that are not justified. I still agree with this route however.

No, the team that arranges to "win" pays gold to the team that arranges to "lose". It's like "OK, you let us win, we'll pay you gold. When we win enough games then we'll be able to take our points (earned by winning) and buy gear with it." Or, they'll agree to lose to your team, if you agree to let their other team win. This is cheating, plain and simple.

As usual, people thought they could get away with cheating because Blizzard "won't do anything about it". Of course, Blizzard was taking time to decide what to do about it and how to administer the punishment. Now I imagine lots of these cheaters will be crying "it's not fair". All I can say is, learn to do the right thing, rather that do what you know is wrong just because you think you can get away with it. Sooner or later Blizzard gets around to dealing with the cheaters, and the cheaters have no one to blame but themselves.

People can protest all they want; they were cheating and knew it all along. If this leads to suspensions and banning, those actions ARE justified. Yes, they will complain about it, but that's life: you cheat, you get caught, you pay the price.

LOL The best part is that just like near the end of Season 2, they let them get away with it for nearly the entire season before they took all their items and points away.

Enjoy your gear.... Oh wait, we're just gonna take those back. Thanks so much for coming.

Fair payback for general douchebaggery.

Wow! I may actually consider coming back to WOW now before WotLK comes out. And yes, there will be a lot of protest/whining about the bannings. That's part of the problem, Blizzard waited waaaaay too long to take SERIOUS action against this kind of crap. This should have happened a lot sooner.

Right at u, u cheating no-lifers

Haha cheaters in ure faces we can finaly play the game more fairly now.

I really don't see it as cheating, since players are only making use of the means available to them in order to accrue the AP/AR.

In my opinion, it doesn't make much of a difference, since the players who are so poor at arenas to have to resort to such tactics... They'll still be terrible at PvP.

That said, I am glad that Blizzard is cracking down on things like this, as it can seem unfair to players who choose not to play in the grey-area (or have no means to). I just wish they would toughen up on other more important issues.

hahahahahahahahahahaha

stupid cheaters