Blizzard sues gold selling company.
Although, they’re being incredibly self righteous about it. I suppose they are about anything they do.
I’m not sure I support lawsuits for this kind of thing, although these guys were going pretty far. They had a pretty sophisticated spamming operation set up on (as far as I know) every server. When I went back and tried WoW out for the 10 day trial earlier this month, there was constant /whisper spam. To the point where I set up a macro to spam them back just incase they had actual people doing that (which I sincerely doubt, but it’d be worth the 5 minutes to set the macro up).
What’s even funnier is that I always bought gold in WoW. I got real sly with the auction house and made MOST of my money that way, but if I really needed gold for something and just didn’t have it, it wasn’t out of the realms of possibility that I’d snap some up. Mostly early in my WoW career when I didn’t have much gold. At one point anything of worth becomes BoP anyway.
Although I always found it funny to listen to guildmates talk about “farming for x days” for their gold, etc. I just couldn’t imagine it. I’ll fully admit that I became a sad, sad raid monkey at one point (it almost cost me a relationship…) - but endlessly grinding at Tir’s Hand for gold? Man… can’t be done, sorry.
If I cared about the game, sure. If the game was more than a PvE (or sad, sad, PvP) progression fest - k, fine. I’d have to really be into the game, and it’d HAVE to be a sandbox game. Just not going to grind so I can rade bettar. I was known to GM a miner out on OSI in ‘98, and even get a smith to like 98.9 or something back when it took MONTHS to accomplish that.
But WoW just isn’t the type of game that I’m going to invest time in like that. Maybe no game is these days, just yet anyway.
-Az
May 28th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Shame on you AZ!!! You bought gold?? If I heard correctly.. if Blizzard finds out that someone in game buys gold, they forfeit their account and Blizzard can zap it. Be careful man.
Its not too hard to make money in that game anyway, I just use the gathering professions (mining, and skinning) and make enough to get by on. Then again, I’m not a hardcore WoW gamer so I dont have to have the latest and greatest gear in game.
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May 28th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Even if they did somehow care enough, AND read this site, it hardly matters since I don’t really play WoW anymore.
I’m sure there are a few people who have already sent a copy of this post to Blizzard though. I honestly wouldn’t believe you during IPY if you would have told me that people would still be being huge babies about shit that happened, three years later.
And my account is pretty much worthless, anyway. I have a few level 60s, but no level 70s. My gear is all from like MC/BWL. I’m about a year and a half behind the times.
May 28th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
No worries dude.
My WoW career has lasted almost 2 years and the highest level toon I have is level 29….
>_
May 28th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Oh man, you’re missing out on my all-time favourite dungeon - Scarlet Monestary.
I bet I’ve run that dungeon about 300 times. Maybe more. At one point early on in WoW I actually stealthed through with my Rogue and took out the end bosses solo for the disenchanted small radiant shards, which I’d sell for like 5g a pop on the AH.