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Square and Blizzard Drop The Banhammer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the splat dept.

Gamespot has the news that Square has banned some 2000 accounts from FFXI, and Eurogamer reports that Blizzard has banned 59,000 accounts from World of Warcraft. The bans come as game publishers continue to attempt to crack down on Real Money Traders in their titles. From the FFXI article: "The news follows Square Enix's crackdown of 250 accounts in June over money-farming and real-money trading, which is the practice of selling in-game currency for cash in the real world. Concerns over real-money trading prompted the Japanese government--particularly worried about large-scale money-mining operations in video games--to launch its own investigation last week."

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  1. Obligatory by Drogo007 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, forgot the obligatory:

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  2. Earlier in this thread... by wadevondoom · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Beyond this, the best items in the game can not even be purchased with gold. All of it has to be done through working with other players to down interesting bosses that require teamwork and strategy. This is really where the game begins. Whacking a few bunnies at low level isn't going to show you anything.

    Only problem with this is a lot of these raids take so many people that you will almost never get the item you want. There are a lot of corrupt guilds that won't let you roll on items you should be able to use. If I can wear it I should be able to roll on it. Period. Thats not to mention the ninjas....

    ROT IN HELL NINJAS!