WoW accounts chopped for gold-farming
1000 accounts axed
Blizzard is a company who are famed for vigorously policing the online elements of their games. Up until now it has been the cheaters on their Battle.net servers which continue to support vibrant Diablo and StarCraft communities. As of yesterday, dodgy gamers playing their insanely popular massively multiplayer World of Warcraft have begun to have their collars felt too.
Over one thousand subscribers have been banned by Blizzard for infringing the rules in the game's EULA. Specifically, these shifty folk were expelled from the game for farming gold in the game, which they then sold on to other players for real world money. The practice of selling game content for cold hard cash has been a long established trend in the realm of MMORPGs. It's a system which unbalances the gameworld, disturbs the flow of play for considerate gamers by camping item spawn points and generally causes a nuisance. In recent times companies have sprung up which employ people to mine MMORPGs for items and in-game currency which can then be sold on by these opportunistic scrubbers for a large wedge of real money. Given their track record on banning huge swathes of cheaters, it's no surprise that Blizzard are taking such determined measures against those who exploit the game's mechanics for personal financial gain.
Blizzard's in-game support manager Maleki had this to say: "We do not condone such actions and will take decisive action as they are against our policy and damage the game economy as a whole. We will continue researching this matter. If you suspect someone of taking part in said gold farming, please email the report to wowgm@blizzard.com."
Unfortunately this means a certain staff member can't blame in-game cheating for the tardiness of his WoW review...
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Funny gm controls who is report even if they dont farm then selfs
GM is making money thats for sure the prove of that
is the vero program ebay 6500 listing and only close ebay accounts the gm want.
What about paying "freaks" to sit at their desk with a bottle of Nodoze and Moxy for days straight power leveling your character? I currently don't have a job right now, and that's something I would have to thank Blizzard for. An under the table job and I don't even have to leave my house. [o0]
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if you can't play by riles DON"T play at all
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Just a quick followup on my post. Not sure if this would fix the problem cause I really do have better things to do than think about how to help Blizzard fix their game (unless they paid me of course) but maybe they should just put a stop to all money transfers for nothing. In other words the only way you can give somebody money is to buy an item from him or maybe have a loan option with a cap on it. Also have a range that items can be sold for to prevent players from selling lvl 40 epics for 800g when they are only meant to be worth 30-50g or whatever Blizzard meant them to be worth. Bassically make it so you have to follow the intended game econemy and even if you did farm 100000g all you really need is 200g to tweek out you character and anyone can farm 200g if they put their mind to it.
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I work for a dang living - screw blizzard if I want to wreck the game ecnonomy for my 4 hours a week just to have fun then I will.
I have way more money that I have time for dum quests, dum grinding, and dum raids.
bravo vlad, braco
OMG.
It's ppl like you, who think your so hard done by, who make the rest of us pay for living productive and unselfish lives. If the only fun you can have is to wreck others ppls fun then i think you consider locking yourself in a dark room with a 12 bore.
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Don your just a dumb selfish prick.
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Another example would be downloading music and then burning and selling the CD's without giving any percentage to the artists.
One word answer BoP.
ill buy some
hey anyone on now??????????????!?
does anyone play WoW thats on WHisperwind
I have seen a GM in game a few times and also know of at least one GM that does play on Gurubashi server. according to him it is company policy to encourage all GM support to play the game.
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