Blizzard, Square/Enix Ban Yet More Farmers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday June 15, 2006 @07:26AM from the rmt-for-the-lose dept.

Eurogamer has the news that both Blizzard and Square/Enix have banned another batch of players for farming. The number of accounts, and the amount of money removed from the economy, is astonishing. From the article: "According to the World of Warcraft website, some 30,000 accounts were banned last month - and, as a result, more than 30 million gold were removed from the economy across all realms ... Based on the results of this investigation, more than 250 [FFXI] accounts among those found to be involved in large-scale RMT operations have been terminated... Thanks to these measures, more than 250 billion gil has been removed from circulation."

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World War III is old news by tepples · 2006-06-15 08:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

subsidizing farms is really about maintaining American farms in case if there were say... World War III

That threat has long passed. World War III ran from 1947 to 1991. From the perspective of the United States, it was a mostly cold war except for some major police actions in Korea and Vietnam. Prof. Eliot A. Cohen and other analysts have described the Global War on Terrorism as "World War IV".