What the RMT Rules Cover at Launch
Three separate things get argued as one: the standing account policy on buying in-game property for cash, the behaviour testers reported on the beta, and the fresh start on 4 November. They answer different questions, and only one of them is a rules document. Here is what each one actually says, and where we are reading guesses instead of statements.
What the published rules actually say
Two different documents get quoted in the same thread. The first is the licence agreement every account already accepted, which covers selling or buying in-game property for real money and applies to Forever the same way it applies to everything else attached to that account. The second is the set of design statements made about Forever itself: no Token, no boost, the cap left at 60. The second is not a rules document. It explains why there is no official route from cash to coin, and it leaves the policy on unofficial routes where it already stood.
Nothing announced about Forever creates a separate category for third-party purchases, and nothing we have seen rewrites the existing wording for a fresh economy. That matters more than it sounds, because the policy sits on the account rather than on the realm. A new world starting from zero does not start the account from zero, so the standing policy on real-money trade is the text that applies on the first evening as much as on the hundredth.
The practical reading for a buyer is narrow. The absence of a Token tells you where demand goes, not what is permitted, and the two questions are regularly answered as if they were one. Anybody weighing the purchase is choosing under rules that were written long before this version existed, which is a different situation from comparing one gold seller against another on delivery and price.
What the beta actually showed
The beta is a test environment, and the balances on it are temporary by design. Anything a tester saw there about trade windows, mail or restrictions was seen on a build that was still being changed, so it describes that build rather than the live rules. The clearest fixed point is the reset itself: coin earned during the beta does not travel, which already removes the main reason somebody would buy on a test realm in the first place.
The rest of what circulates from the beta is testimony. Threads describe accounts actioned, trades blocked and transfers held, usually without a screenshot, a ticket number or a date attached, and the same story is often retold by people who were not involved. We do not republish those as findings. Sanction claims from beta testers are worth reading as claims, and they stay claims until somebody produces the original.
What can be said plainly is that we have not seen an official statement describing enforcement specific to the beta, and we are not going to assemble one out of forum memory. Where a behaviour was observed consistently by several testers we say so and label it as observed on the beta, not as a rule.
What changes on 4 November
The date changes the economy and not the policy. On 4 November the live realms open with no carried balances, no legacy bank and no supply, which resets every price on the board. The account rules that cover buying and selling for cash are not scheduled to turn over with it, and we have seen nothing suggesting a Forever-specific version of that text is being prepared. Treat the start as an economic event, and keep the policy question separate from it.
Transfers inside your own roster are the part most people actually need. Coin moves through the trade window, the mailbox and the guild bank, and each of those has its own timing. Moving gold between your own characters is routine, but it is not instant in every case, and a hold on mailed coin is the detail that catches a player trying to fund an alt an hour before a raid.
The first weeks also change what a transfer looks like from outside. On a realm with no trade history, large sums move between names that have no sales behind them, which is simply what a realm opening from zero produces. It is worth knowing that the pattern exists before drawing conclusions from somebody else's trade log.
What we do not know yet
Several pieces of this are open, and we would rather name them than fill them in. We have no published figure for any transfer limit at launch, no confirmation that beta trade behaviour ships unchanged, and no statement that the policy text will be restated for Forever at all.
- Whether any cap or delay applies to gold sent by mail or through a guild bank on live realms.
- Whether the trade handling seen on the beta is final or still being adjusted.
- Whether Blizzard will publish anything addressing real-money trade specifically for this version.
- What, if anything, is recorded about a transfer beyond what any player can already see.
Where that last point is concerned, the honest answer is that we are describing a system from the outside. What a gold trade leaves behind is reasoned from how such systems usually work, not from documentation we have read, and we mark it that way wherever it appears. If a statement lands after 4 November, this entry gets rewritten rather than quietly patched.
Questions
Did Forever introduce new rules about buying gold?
Not that we have seen. The announcements covered design decisions - no Token, no boost, the cap at 60 - and those are not a policy document. The licence agreement that covers trading in-game property for real money already applied to the account before Forever existed, and nothing published so far replaces it for this version.
Does the fresh start reset anything on my account?
The economy restarts, the account does not. Balances, supply and prices begin from zero on the live realms, but the rules attached to the account carry across unchanged. Treat the start date as an economic event that changes what gold is worth, not as a line that resets anything about the account itself.
Can I move gold between my own characters freely?
Within one account that is ordinary play: the trade window, the mailbox and the guild bank all move coin. The thing to plan around is timing rather than permission, because mail and guild bank withdrawals do not always clear instantly, and a transfer arranged an hour before a raid can arrive later than you expected.
Why do you not list what happened to people on the beta?
Because we have not seen the originals. The reports circulating are retellings without tickets, screenshots or dates, and several of them are repeated by people who were not involved. We will describe something as observed when testers consistently saw it, and we will not turn forum testimony into a figure or a rule.
Sources
- Blizzard's legal hub, where the end user licence agreement covering in-game property is published — Blizzard legal documents.
- Blizzard customer support, where account policy articles and ticket guidance are kept — Blizzard Support.