Blizzard Cracks Down on Gold Selling in World of Warcraft Forever — and Streamers Are in the Firing Line

World of Warcraft: Classic has had a gold selling problem for its entire existence, but with Forever, Blizzard seems hard-set on reversing that trend, and some streamers are getting caught in the act.

Before Forever's beta came out, Classic had big problems with its economy due to the popularity of GDKP. For the uninitiated, that was a system where in raids, players would bid gold in order to get items that drop from bosses. That, combined with Blizzard's seemingly lax enforcement of real-money trading, or RMT, ended up with millions of gold being dumped into the Classic economies.

But, when Forever came out, Blizzard said it would be banning GDKP, which was a huge first step in making the Classic+ mode a lot more fair for everyone. The other side of that coin, though, is the RMT. …