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cinderboy · 05-28-2007, 03:29 PM

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Blizzard Sues Gold Farmers

As many of you know, the latest content patch, along with many great new content additions, contains technical counter-measures designed to combat in-game gold spamming. Our efforts to reduce in-game abuse and create a fun, safe environment for everyone are never-ending.

With that said, we felt that it was important to share with the community just how serious we are in our efforts to combat this type of abuse. Blizzard has filed a federal lawsuit against the operators of Peons4hire, a popular gold-selling organization which many of you have no doubt seen advertised. As part of the lawsuit, the operators of Peons4hire have been asked to immediately cease all in-game spamming efforts by all entities and websites under their control.

If this organization refuses to act accordingly, further legal action will be taken. We'll be sure to keep you posted on the progress of this topic.

Terkey123 · 05-28-2007, 03:42 PM

Bull crap, I don't see much harm in gold farming.

cinderboy · 05-28-2007, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Terkey123

Bull crap, I don't see much harm in gold farming.

gold farming is not illegal, selling it to others is. will only disrupt the game's economy ..

Terkey123 · 05-28-2007, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by cinderboy

gold farming is not illegal, selling it to others is. will only disrupt the game's economy ..

How will it disrupt the game's economy?

Arri · 05-28-2007, 03:51 PM

People with paypal or whatever will have infinite(basically) gold to buy whatever they want, while the honest player will only have a handful or so. Basically now everyone is rocketing their prices because of the gold buyers, and the honest players without friends to give them money/a guild to help them are screwed.

cinderboy · 05-28-2007, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Terkey123

How will it disrupt the game's economy?

a simple example. The price of an item is 500gold. some players buy gold from the farmers, and offer to buy the item at 5000gold due to its rarity. the other players will follow suit and raise their selling price significantly. players who want to buy the item will then have to fork out a premium sum for it. Not all normal players have time to farm for gold and become rich and pay for such insane prices.

Raiyne · 05-28-2007, 04:03 PM

Terkey, you'd have to be dense or really naive to not see how gold farming affects a games economy. Well this explains why I've recieved zero whispers about gold selling from the peons for hire these few days. Think my rampant reporting has been helped achieve this?

nzrock · 05-28-2007, 04:30 PM

lol yep they fail, sue away!!

Creamy · 05-28-2007, 04:34 PM

Makes sense to me, yet they're only going after one company at the moment. They should try looking on Ebay for once

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Arri · 05-28-2007, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Creamy

Makes sense to me, yet they're only going after one company at the moment. They should try looking on Ebay for once

.

Get all the gold farmers, and soon you'll see ebay losing all its WoW gold

05-28-2007, 03:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
cinderboy The Beast of the East Join Date: May 2006 Location: The Internetz Posts: 13,172 Reputation: 228	Blizzard Sues Gold Farmers http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...geNo=1&sid=1#0 Blizzard Sues Gold Farmers As many of you know, the latest content patch, along with many great new content additions, contains technical counter-measures designed to combat in-game gold spamming. Our efforts to reduce in-game abuse and create a fun, safe environment for everyone are never-ending. With that said, we felt that it was important to share with the community just how serious we are in our efforts to combat this type of abuse. Blizzard has filed a federal lawsuit against the operators of Peons4hire, a popular gold-selling organization which many of you have no doubt seen advertised. As part of the lawsuit, the operators of Peons4hire have been asked to immediately cease all in-game spamming efforts by all entities and websites under their control. If this organization refuses to act accordingly, further legal action will be taken. We'll be sure to keep you posted on the progress of this topic. __________________

05-28-2007, 03:51 PM	#5 (permalink)
Arri Ripples of 495 Years Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 8,866 Reputation: 115	People with paypal or whatever will have infinite(basically) gold to buy whatever they want, while the honest player will only have a handful or so. Basically now everyone is rocketing their prices because of the gold buyers, and the honest players without friends to give them money/a guild to help them are screwed. __________________

05-28-2007, 04:03 PM	#7 (permalink)
Raiyne Feedbacker Join Date: May 2006 Location: The Middle of the Stairs Posts: 13,390 Reputation: 126	Terkey, you'd have to be dense or really naive to not see how gold farming affects a games economy. Well this explains why I've recieved zero whispers about gold selling from the peons for hire these few days. Think my rampant reporting has been helped achieve this? __________________ Everytime I post, I think Murph is about to BROFIST me. -- Loric Last.fm Hey Raiyne

05-28-2007, 04:30 PM	#8 (permalink)
nzrock OnRPG Elite Member! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 5,894 Reputation: 67	lol yep they fail, sue away!! __________________ BREAKINGCAPNEWS: I MIGHT BE BACK TO ONRPG?!

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05-28-2007, 03:42 PM	#2 (permalink)
Terkey123 Banned Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 271 Reputation: 10	Bull crap, I don't see much harm in gold farming.

05-28-2007, 04:34 PM	#9 (permalink)
Creamy 500+ Posts???? Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 514 Reputation: 10	Makes sense to me, yet they're only going after one company at the moment. They should try looking on Ebay for once .