Blizzard's gold farmer bans sends world economy into tailspin
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Economy, Events, in-game
Sure, the price of oil may seem harsh tese days, and pulling up to the pump is certainly no bargain ... But the worst is yet to come. Those whose business it is to track the price World of Warcraft gold goes for on the black market have seen the price of gold double in the past couple of weeks, likely due to a mighty swing of Blizzard's ban hammer. With the highly profitable gold farming operations shutting down due to the suddenly lowered demand and supply, an easy source of liquid assets is now gone. The ripple effects will be felt globally. Until those brave gold farmers can get back in business, long lines at the pump may translate to long lines in the unemployment office.An over-reaction? Perhaps. But Andrew at GameRates describes, in a tongue-in-cheek way, how protests against the high price of fuel will lead to protests against the high price of gold. So seriously -- have you stopped buying gold until the price comes down? What's the best price point for WoW gold? And would you consider buying gold at a higher price in order to help the Chinese gold farmers over this difficult hump?
Note: Massively in no way condones the buying and selling of gold or the breaking of any EULA in any way We're just interested in hearing from people who choose to on their own accord.
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possum said on 3:34PM 7-05-2008
Gold farmers can rot for all i care. As for oil, speculators and investors drive the price of oil, nothing else. we put those folks out of a job and oild will be back to 50 bucks a barrel as it should be.
of course the gold farmers rippling effect might be causing something in the arab countries where gas prices hit an all time high of 23 cents a gallon.
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Kaiallard said on 2:01AM 7-06-2008
Really Massively really, how many ppl are actually gainfully employed as "gold farmers". A few hundred maybe a couple thousand. Would suck for them but hardly something that will send the economy spinning out of control.
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Calarius said on 12:01PM 7-06-2008
Lessee, 25 dailies at an average of 10g a pop (ok, more, but for simple math) makes for 250g just doing those. Plus all the vendor trash and random coin from doing those. Add in the green drops and the odd blue that might fall. A couple hours work should yield a player 300g minimum a day. Over a week that 2100g, or at least 9,000 in an average month.
Really, how much gold does someone have to buy anymore? I laugh at gold farmers. They are charging me real money for something I can get for "free" with just a little bit of PLAYING A GAME I'M ALREADY PLAYING.
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theitguy said on 2:19PM 7-07-2008
In the UK we have this unfortunate problem where people who steal cars and drive them around are called "joyriders".
Let me assure you that its not a "joy" for the owner of the car.
Similarly account-hackers are low-level scum that I'd be pleased to see their computer melt-down.
Goldfarmers are not far above that level of loathing.
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