Blizzard Achieves Victory Against Spammers
If you’ve ever been trying to get to your mailbox in Ironforge/Undercity, only to have your way blocked by a level 1 dwarf/orc saying “Buy Gold! Best Gold ever! Come get your gold here!” then it’s likely you’ll be pleased to hear that Blizzard successfully had the practice stopped.
The whole article can be found here.
I’ve always found the practice of buying and selling virtual gold interesting. Some games have been purposely ingrained with a currency meant to be converted into $USD such as Second Life, while others like Warcraft have barriers set up to prevent converting your money into in-game currency. Regardless I think this is goign to be an on-going issue with any MMO game. Obviously it’s against the spirit of most MMOs to be able to buy your way to the best gear, accomplishments, etc. but it’s definitely not surprising that this occurs.
I suppose some people have more money than they do time.
December 8th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
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