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I’m not sure if you’ve seen the advertisements for WoW stat changers that will allow you to boost your stats to 99,000+ or your gold to 9999 gold pieces…

Now, if you think this can actually work, think again. Here’s from the horse’s mouth:

yea, i bought that wow stat changer and i thought it worked on the real servers (payed for servers) and me and my friend tried to get more gold, well we got 9999g,99s and 99c, but the only problem was when we went to trade each other the money BOOM, it kicked me off, and then he tried to trade and boom, he got kicked off (just an error it said). well after that , we said forget it. so then we just went to vendor and bought something. it went back to our regular gold and then i got my stamina to change and it was like 140k and i was like holy crap, lol, but my health had NOT changed so i said well this sucks

So to recap, it only changes your stats in the game client. It doesn’t affect the server at all.

You could be better off with the WoW Glider bot but I guess your safest bet is spending the $25 on a reputable gold seller. You might get some cheap WoW gold.

This time, it’s the New York Times who goes to China in order to report on WoW gold farming.

Here’s the part that interests me: how much for 100G?

At the end of each shift, Li reports the night’s haul to his supervisor, and at the end of the week, he, like his nine co-workers, will be paid in full. For every 100 gold coins he gathers, Li makes 10 yuan, or about $1.25, earning an effective wage of 30 cents an hour, more or less.

The boss, in turn, receives $3 or more when he sells those same coins to an online retailer, who will sell them to the final customer (an American or European player) for as much as $20

Now, the $20 is definitely an exaggeration from the comparisons on cheap WoW gold that I have seen. There are some vendors who sell it for about $10 per 100 gold.

This guy clearly had it when it comes to bots. Even the most sophisticated bots (like WoW Glider) use a pre-scripted routine that’s easy to spot.

I know some of you are interested in purchasing WoW gold. I haven’t seen a reliable comparison of prices between vendors so far but this one seems pretty close.

Maybe someone could do a similar price comparison for powerleveling.