Re: Bliz brings down the hammer



On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:42:03 -0400, Polarhound
<polarhound@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Six months ago, my father went against my advice and bought gold.

Yesterday, his account was CLOSED for "Economy Exploitation"



Moral: Just because you aren't immediately booted does not mean you got
away with it.

His lesson cost him all his toons and $76 for a fresh set of CD keys.

For my buck and a half; I have mixed feelings about the 'sell you gold
people'. Bliz's game, Bliz's rules - I can live with that . I think
its short sighted and their economy exploitation issues could be
answered from a different direction. I see no reason why Blizzard
couldn't sell gold within the game.

Your dad did prove me wrong on one aspect of this. I've always assumed
that a player who purchased gold wasn't a long term player. A gold
buyer would get bored soon enough or just move on to the next big
thing. Ouch! Lost his 'toons! - redvet, who will immediately rat you
off, if you sell gold on the Steamwheedle server

.



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