I can only assume that whatever it's protestations to the contrary, Blizzard likes farmers.
This is actually quite wrong. Blizzard has seen the economic collapse of the Lineage games, and knows that letting farmers run free spells disaster for their online world.
Those who run farming operations are used to cancelled accounts, and they know exactly how to deal with it. One of the biggest market for cd-keys and pre-paid game cards are farming establishments. Once an account is frozen, they just change the cd-key, register a new pre-paid card, and keep going. It wouldn't take longer than 30 minutes for a single worker to go from frozen to farming with the open availability of these two items.
What reason does Blizzard have to not pursue farming accounts? By cancelling known farmers, they protect the economy, please the players (who are annoyed by farmers notorious for being rude and PKing in high gold areas), and to make money. Every time they cancel a farming account, Blizzard gets another $65 when they have to start all over.
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I can only assume that whatever it's protestations to the contrary, Blizzard likes farmers. This is actually quite wrong. Blizzard has seen the economic collapse of the Lineage games, and knows that letting farmers run free spells disaster for their online world. Those who run farming operations are used to cancelled accounts, and they know exactly how to deal with it. One of the biggest market for cd-keys and pre-paid game cards are farming establishments. Once an account is frozen, they just change the cd-key, register a new pre-paid card, and keep going. It wouldn't take longer than 30 minutes for a single worker to go from frozen to farming with the open availability of these two items. What reason does Blizzard have to not pursue farming accounts? By cancelling known farmers, they protect the economy, please the players (who are annoyed by farmers notorious for being rude and PKing in high gold areas), and to make money. Every time they cancel a farming account, Blizzard gets another $65 when they have to start all over.