Maybe I’m in the wrong business. You see, I didn’t know that you could make money by selling fake money. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I know all about gold farming in MMO’s (accruing lots of gold so you can sell it in real life), but I guess I just didn’t realize it was so lucrative. Like, ten million freaking dollars lucrative.
Yes, today, MyMMOShop.com, a gold farming site, was purchased by an equity company for ten million big ones. So not only can fake money be sold for real money, but you can sell a company that does this for even bigger money.
Only in WoW, eh? What a world.
Source- Kotaku
That’s ridiculous. Why would you pay for a game, subscription, electricity and phone bills, food supplies AND for fake monnez? How on earth could a buisness like that generate so much?
A friend of mine is completely addicted to WoW, and he’s been guilty of buying gold on more than one occasion.
Even though it’s strictly against game terms, a lot of people who play WoW need a few extra hundred or thousand gold and don’t want to farm for it.
Between 11 million players, I’m sure a decent chunk of that population has shelled out real money for gold.
WOW.
WOW players are like…WOW.
WOW. Just…WOW.
Some of them need to use that money and go get laid.
“purchased by an equity company”
DAMN IT SKYNET!!!
And this is why I don’t play WoW. What’s the point of working for something when you can shell out some cash and get it with no effort?
This is why I like that Mythic and Mark Jacobs (CEO) ban people buying or selling gold in Warhammer Online.
WoW and Blizzard just let this crap continue, and is one of many the reasons that they (Blizzard) have fallen so far in my eyes.
Croc of Dino fungus.
@ Nick…you should see the very few small amount of people that multibox with 5 character all at the same time. There is a guy on my Realm of Hakkar that boxes 5 shaman at once and destroy all of us in BG’s and WG. He likes to pay the $75 a month because it brings him joy. People will always put out the money to be better than the next person no matter what game it is.
PS WoW > All
I have always felt that when you pay real money for money in an mmo its time to get a life again.
RMTing (Real Money Trading) is actually illegal in FF13, the online one. I’m sure it’s illegal in other MMO’s, but I can’t say for sure. Frankly, RMTing is so cheap, it takes the fun out of grinding. Okay, fine, I guess a little RMTing isn’t bad, but it’s still really cheap.
It’d be worse if there was EXP trading in CoD4 or something. Holy crap.
[quote comment=”4220″]RMTing (Real Money Trading) is actually illegal in FF13, the online one. I’m sure it’s illegal in other MMO’s, but I can’t say for sure. Frankly, RMTing is so cheap, it takes the fun out of grinding. Okay, fine, I guess a little RMTing isn’t bad, but it’s still really cheap.
It’d be worse if there was EXP trading in CoD4 or something. Holy crap.[/quote]
I play FFXI and yes, RMT’ing is illegal. I try to MPK them but its near impossible as a samurai. ; ;