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[Lamp]

Fantasy fuels games with finances
By Mark Ward
Technology Correspondent, BBC News website

The online game World of Warcraft is hugely popular with more than five million people now regularly spending time in Azeroth, trying to turn apprentice adventurers into fully-formed heroes.

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[Cozak]

Mr Younger said "gold-farming" was risky as it could get players banned from the game. But he admits that bans will not stop the farmers because the companies behind them make so much cash by re-selling game gold.

"Although Blizzard bans players caught farming by removing their account it would be practically impossible to prosecute the companies carrying out these operations," he said.

Is that just badly phrased? Or?..

Some have taken this to ridiculous lengths. In April 2005 two players on the Elune server bought all the tradable items on sale in the Ironforge auction house. They then promptly put everything back up for sale at a significant mark up.

Hahaha xD

 

[Ctuchik]

Is that just badly phrased? Or?..

what part of it are u talking about? if u mean the banned accounts they will just open a new one and level that to 60 and keep farming. its not THAT hard if uve done it enough. and if its a company thats doing it they can have the toon logged in 24/7 to level it to 60 in a matter of days with a tad help from their "friends".

 

[Drucken]

Or buy new accounts with level 60 characters of ebay, and still make a profit?

 

[Cozak]

what part of it are u talking about? if u mean the banned accounts they will just open a new one and level that to 60 and keep farming. its not THAT hard if uve done it enough. and if its a company thats doing it they can have the toon logged in 24/7 to level it to 60 in a matter of days with a tad help from their "friends".

I meant what did they mean as farming, like getting loads of gold then selling it for irl cash or just farming loads of cash/items for ingame cash?

 

[Morphius]

its kinda stupid banning people for say farming runihura..