IGE sued by Blizzard.

..oops sorry guys I just misread the article, IGE was sued by a individual ppl.

It's a personal behavior.

It's not as bad now but you can get a mod from www.curse-gaming.com called Spammenot works great.

All Blizzard as to do is instant bans for mentioning power leveling or selling gold in general chat or email. Eventually they'd give up because they wouldn't make a profit from creating so many new accounts.

For me it was alot more satisfying buying that 5000gold flying mount myself. I set a goal and i reached it.

All Blizzard as to do is instant bans for mentioning power leveling or selling gold in general chat or email. Eventually they'd give up because they wouldn't make a profit from creating so many new accounts.

For me it was alot more satisfying buying that 5000gold flying mount myself. I set a goal and i reached it.

 

 

Sleepyz

Completely agree with you dude, they might work a solution to "cooperate" with virtual seller not just instant ban. It will kill the industry, I mean the casual player, 1~2hours/day, will leave the game forever.

All Blizzard as to do is instant bans for mentioning power leveling or selling gold in general chat or email. Eventually they'd give up because they wouldn't make a profit from creating so many new accounts.Sleepyz

They also need to either permanently ban users who use these services, or reset their account to it's creation (all level 1 toons but retain the character names). As it stands right now, someone can purchase the use of a powerleveling service and if Blizzard finds out they'll get suspended for a week. That's not a deterance.

Until Blizzard gets serious about dealing with this problem it will continue to remain.

No matter what the problem will continue to remain. The more you crack down on gold selling the higher you will drive the price. If you limit the supply it just becomes more profitable to provide the service.

Look at drug dealers. Don't you think people are serious about trying to stop them?

It's just an asinine endeavour anyway. You can't FORCE people to spend hours farming gold when someone else has the gold , they want it, they have money and it would be mutually beneficial to exchange. TECHNICALLY Blizzard might "own" the gold and 'have the right" yadda yadda yadda, but on an individual basis I just sold my WoW account. WTF are they going to do about it? Why would they want to do anything about it? 

MMO accounts should be things that people play while they want to play it and then sell when they are finished if they want.  It's really nice to make some cash back for having spent all that time accomplishing tasks in the game. I don't see why Blizzard would want to limit this behavior, since the players wind up making cash off the game that seems like a pretty good bonus incentive for playing. 

They can't win. No company has the right to consider virtual gold & silver their property. No sir.BounceDK

Yes, they do. It is transfer of in-game materials provided by their coding, on their servers, in their game. That "gold"doesn't even exist unless it uses Blizzard's code, servers, and game client to exist. Ergo, that gold is Blizzard's property.

Still, Blizzard isn't suing Peons4Hire over selling gold, they're suing them over spamming.

IGE may no longer be the biggest or the baddest, check out this MMO virtual goods vendor comparison and review site - http://www.spymmo.com - there are SOO many vendors and many of them are more highly regarded than IGE, and there are a ton of games too!

[QUOTE="Sleepyz"]All Blizzard as to do is instant bans for mentioning power leveling or selling gold in general chat or email. Eventually they'd give up because they wouldn't make a profit from creating so many new accounts.sircyrus

They also need to either permanently ban users who use these services, or reset their account to it's creation (all level 1 toons but retain the character names). As it stands right now, someone can purchase the use of a powerleveling service and if Blizzard finds out they'll get suspended for a week. That's not a deterance.

Until Blizzard gets serious about dealing with this problem it will continue to remain.

  One of the reasons they most likely do not do that is because your credit card number is completely confidential..  Its possible they could be violating some privacy acts/laws if they were doing this.  Because they would infact be using your credit card information more then just the services you agreed upon.

One of the reasons they most likely do not do that is because your credit card number is completely confidential..  Its possible they could be violating some privacy acts/laws if they were doing this.  Because they would infact be using your credit card information more then just the services you agreed upon.

sSubZerOo

According to Raph Koster (veteran MMO designer)...

"Customers are identified by credit card numbers, which cannot be legally shared with other companies".

So when someone is banned and tries to make a new account the company could have their card information blacklisted. That would prevent the MMO powerleveling/goldfarming services from being able to get back ingame right away by purchasing a cheap gamebox and resigning up.

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]One of the reasons they most likely do not do that is because your credit card number is completely confidential..  Its possible they could be violating some privacy acts/laws if they were doing this.  Because they would infact be using your credit card information more then just the services you agreed upon.

sircyrus

According to Raph Koster (veteran MMO designer)...

"Customers are identified by credit card numbers, which cannot be legally shared with other companies".

So when someone is banned and tries to make a new account the company could have their card information blacklisted. That would prevent the MMO powerleveling/goldfarming services from being able to get back ingame right away by purchasing a cheap gamebox and resigning up.

  My point is there is some underlined rule or law against it most likely, I have never seen a single company do it for any type of service..  And Blizzard as well as other companies full well show that they are willing to ban accounts.. If they were as money whoring as people said they were, there would be many slap on the wrists and very few bans sense most average people will not rebuy the game and they lose out on the subscription money..  And top of that it is a fine line between that and a law suit, because who is to say that some one might take that up on banning from their services due to descrimination, the United States is a sue happy culture, as well as a great deal many other countries.  

  lets not forget this logic makes no sense to begin with because subscription cards can not be traced to begin with..  So I highly doubt they track customers with credit card numbers when not eveyr customer has a credit card number in....

  And these money farmers most assuredly do not use credit cards so its completely untraceable.. You can't even ban IP's because most of the time they are dynamic meaning they change every time you reboot your modem...