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Blizard Sues Virtual Gold Seller
DaphneDiane writes "Blizzard announced that they are suing one of the heavily spamming gold sellers, Peons4hire. Peons4hire had recently been spamming players in World of Warcraft with multi-line messages advertising their power leveling and gold selling business. With the advent of the recently released 2.1.0 patch Blizzard made it easier to report and block these spammers. I've noticed a large decrease in spam while playing since the patch. It used to be that I would get nearly a dozen spams a night but I barely have seen any since."
It was perfect. Then people showed up and started using it.
So that's where the missing Zs went. Give them back, scoundrel!
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
Surely though, Blizzard winning damages from this company means that Blizzard has directly gained money from the selling of in-game "Gold" which is against their own EULA. Ironic eh?
And maybe then, two years from now, SPAM will not exist anymore. Oh wait...
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He's essentially a Matrix philosopher; pay him no mind.
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WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
It's a mix between a Bee, a Lizard and a Shark.
Amusing that someone would spam with the subject "Re:Anti-spam".
Or maybe I'm just too easily amused by stupidity.
I think the GP is questioning whether you were "doing research" or "shopping".
On the MMO that I play occasionally, a new player admitted to buying game currency on the cash market. One of my friends told him that he was "buying from terrorists", and that the 9/11 attacks were funded by "gold farming". The poor guy was really upset until the rest of us couldn't stand it anymore and let him in on the joke.
I think they should implement a vote for banishment. Something like if some number of characters report you as a spammer in a certain amount of time you are ported to the boss of the opposing factions highest level instance and are killed instantly by the big bad elite monster. By being in the opposing faction's area it would render all of the tells unintelligible and as a bonus the level one spammer would be immediately killed thus silencing him again.
As an added punishment, if a spammer is killed by an NPC I think the spammer shouldn't be able to be resurrected or talk on any chat channel for > 10 minutes.
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I think it's evidence that something is right with the game. If people didn't want these thing so badly, they wouldn't pay real money for them. The game is good enough that it creates the desire to spend real money on its virtual items. If these items were easy for anyone to get they wouldn't be perceived as so valuable. I'm not savvy enough in macroeconomics to go deeply into it, but commoditization, saturation, supply and demand, and free market concepts seem to apply here. (they probably aren't even part of macroeconomics, I just pulled some nice sounding stuff out of my a$$).
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I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
will the spammers pay in in-game currency?