The Inquirer reports that about 18,000 World of Warcraft players that have been found to be cheating were permanently banned from the game servers. The banning has been going on for months now with over 5 million WoW players worldwide.
The majority of cheaters were found to be using 3rd party software to farm gold and items. They described the account closings as being part of their “aggressive stance against cheating in World of Warcraft.” (Selling/trading of these virtual commodities to the real world is prohibited in Blizzards TOS.)
WoW farming is almost akin to the porn industry - there is demand for it and it’s a lucrative business.
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I read an article in the NY Times about the boom in virtual sweat shops in China … I was recommending that to my newly graduated brother as an alternative career.
Now Gloria has company.
and that’s a lot of them
I found this neat MMORPG (RAN Online) through Hack en Slash. It’s free for life. The only thing you use game cards for is to buy ingame items. That means your real money is converted to virtual money, though I am not sure if you are allowed to sell items using real world cash. Having this idea, however, may help lessen people buying virtual item with real money, I think.
Amen for that.