Warcraft

I’ve probably seen hundreds of spam messages advertsing WoW gold as well as powerleveling services.

Blizzard has struck back recently - banning over 100,000 accounts and deleting 11 million gold (yes, that’s 11,000,000 of WoW gold). I imagine this means no more cheap wow gold for a month!

TechDirt are comparing this to the economy of Namibia:

There are also other problems with trying to count in-game economies — partly because they’re very much at the whim of the makers of various games. So, for example, when World of Warcraft makers Blizzard simply remove 11 million gold pieces from circulation, after shutting down accounts that made gold through fraud and cheats, how is that counted in the grand economic scheme?

What’s your take on this?

Tags: accounts, ban, blizzard, bot, gold, loot, mmo, spam, warcraft, WoW

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