Better know a gold farmer

4 words.


Scum of the earth.


nuff said.

"Better know a gold farmer?"

That sounds more like an angry command. You BETTER know a gold farmer! OR ELSE! Not to mention the article deals with gold farmers plural.

Get to know gold farmers better?

Also, it's nice you can accurately predict whether someone is a worthwhile human being based on how they affect your funtime.

Amazing how the words get twisted around in that article to make it all seem like a legitimate business.

"Our products are virtual but our customers are real and we have no excuse to do illegal business with them. We have our own corporate culture," she claims, calling it "IPEC" (Integrity, Practicability, Efficiency and Creativity)."

My giant white hairy ass. This is a great example of how so many humans will find a way to see themselves as 'the good guys' no matter what they're doing. Oh, right, they're just helping the poor little oppressed gamers who are forced by the big mega-corporations to toil away to make enough gold to play.

Really sick of these whiny "Oh, we're just trying to feed our families *sob**sob*" BS. Anything can be justified if you try hard enough.

Gold farmers and gold buyers all need to go die in a fire. These people are leeches on the industry. They ruin in-game economies and screw up a product that somebody else is making.

I don't understand the title of this thread. Massively needs to come up with some original content - constantly linking and commenting on other peoples work...lets just say it doesn't inspire me to click on anything on your site that might earn you a dime.

I am glad they are punished, loosing USD$100 or more when their account is banned.

More power to the GC and (rarely online) GMs to ban them more actively, IP bans even so we are not punished instead with their endless spam.

/me gets out his pitch fork "Death to the gold merchants and power levelling services - and the fracking cheats who use them"

"I am glad they are punished, loosing USD$100 or more when their account is banned."

Sadly I think that points out a reason why Blizzard isn't really that aggressive in banning IP's and really going after these companies. Every time they ban 10,000 gold farmer accounts, they are back the next day with new ones... at $100 a pop.

Sure, we can try to believe the PR and that Blizzard and other gaming companies have the integrity to ignore the profit they are reaping from these farmers... but I think when they look at the bottom line, the money easily outweighs their resolve to eliminate this issue - no matter what some talking head tells us.

The problem lies not with the gold farmers but the people that buy the gold. Gold farmers are fine, it's the people who pay for it that cause a game's economy to go to shit.

"Each time Blizzard massively bans the farming accounts and trading accounts, the gold sellers and farmers suffer great losses. They have paid for the Classic CD-Key, the Burnfing Crusade CD-Key, Wrath of the Lich King CD-key and 60 days Time Cards. The total cost is over 100 USD."

Obviously. the gold sellers' losses haven't been great enough, as they keep coming back.

Keep goin' after them, Blizzard, CCP, et al!

These people are not losing 100 dollars when an account is banned, the gold they sell comes from hacked player accounts that have been completely cleaned out and laundered. Gold sellers and people who buy gold cause terrible things to happen to innocent players that aren't involved in the scene.

So you guys are all in agreement that gold farmers are evil and some how what they do is illegal ( don't know what country)?

I wonder how many of these gold farmer accounts contribute to the massive subscriber numbers.

The sad part is that this not is true, they are also active renting accounts that mostly get banned 24 hours later and stealing accounts! So some spammed legal player lost his or her account and all the work they did on it for this damn gold farmers!

If blizzard, CCP, Mythic, SE, all wanted to ban them for ever, they could. All they need to do is ban their IPs from accessing the servers, that simple, but to them, its just another way to make money.

Ok .. lets put this in perspective.. ITS A GAME! All the QQers on gold selling and buying should go throw red paint on the kid buying the Nintendo Cheat code book.

Step back and look at real work problems before getting all huffy on some game.

And . you know MMO makers love gold farmers. They add subs. The player who buys gold stays in the game thus keeping a sub. And it makes both MMO developer and gold farmers money.

Shoot .. gold buying is like masturbation.. everyone has done it just no one fess up to it.