World of Warcraft Gold Market Soaring

Gamespot has an article discussing the realities of Virtual World economics as they pertain to the real world. World of Warcraft is used as an example throughout, and they quote some staggering statistics that remove any last shred of hope that Blizzard's bluster may be having an effect on the gold market. From the article: "Sukow discovered that the top seller of WOW gold made more than $23,000 in April, just on WOW gold. And that wasn't even a good month--in January and February the number-one seller took home more than $44,000 each month."

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I wonder how long it will take...

[Matthias Wiesmann]

I wonder how long it will take for spam that proposes to move virtual gold out of disabled accounts

Dear Friend,

I request your assistance for an affair of the highest importance. I am Lalal 40th level gnome, whose account has been partially disabled. By hard work, I have amassed the total amount of 1'000'000 gold (one million golds) that is now blocked with said character. I solicit your help to move this sum to a new account. Due to changes of policies at Blizzard, it is of uttermost importance that this affair is conducted with the highest discretion. In reward for cooperation, I am ready to give you 10% of the total sum, that is 100'000 golds (hundred thousand golds).

In order for the transaction to take place, I need your account name and password. Be assured that I will proceed with uttermost discretion. /blokquote)

Re:Some people have no life

[rufo]

NO CARRIER+++

No wonder he commited suicide, the guy's on dialup!