WoW Forever fan builds add-on that flags gold laundering

Real-money trading has shadowed World of Warcraft: Forever since its reveal, and Blizzard's response so far, clawing back roughly $200 worth of gold from a streamer after other players flagged it, struck parts of the community as far too soft. The harder problem is detection. Huge sums earned in a short window stand out, especially during a beta, but plenty of tainted gold looks thoroughly ordinary.

A viewer on the stream of content creator Ziqo, the same player whose gold was confiscated, said they had built a tool to close that gap. Nicknamed IRS, short for Illicit Riches Scanner, it compares a character's historical gold against income statistics to mark currency that cannot be accounted for, and it watches live trades too, which is how it would catch illicit deals. The creator sent Ziqo a private beta file. He called it buggy, then noted it tagged most of his own gold as illegitimate. There is no public download yet, and Blizzard has not said whether it will tolerate the add-on.

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