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June 13th, 2008 | 
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I will in this article tell, in five points, things you should think about before you consider buying gold for World of Warcraft. Even if you don’t consider buying gold, you can use the arguments here to people who do consider it.
The first thing you need to think about when you consider buying gold is what kind of market you are supporting. There have been reports in the media about people working for really crappy pay as ”gold farmers”. When you buy gold, you support a market that exploits it’s workers.
The second thing you need to consider is your own reputation. You obviously play World of Warcraft and then you have obviously seen the annoying, spamming, gold sellers that hang around in the cities and that flood our trade chats with ”BUY CHEAP GOLD… bla bla bla”. Buying gold from these companies support them and hence will make them continue to make the cities horrible to be in. And since we established that you play WoW, you know how much people **** the gold sellers. Would you really like to be associated to buying gold then?
You have for certain heard about people getting hacked and lost their gear, gold and banked items. This is the third thing to consider. A lot of these hackings are done by gold sellers that, in one way or another, gets a keylogger onto peoples computers. With the keylogger in place, they just need to wait for the person to log in and they will get all the information they need to later log into that account and clear it out. They sell everthing they can to vendors and then transfer all the gold off the characters. If you buy gold, you support an industry that prey on other peoples spare time.
The forth thing to consider is that you will break the user agreement you have with Blizzard if you buy gold. What happens if they find out? You will get banned. Even if you are lucky enough to not get hacked after surfing the gold seller sites, you might end up getting caught by Blizzard and you will then have payed money for some gold that you will never have the chance to enjoy.
The fifth thing to consider might not be as convincing as the other points. So, you have your gold, you didn’t get hacked, you didn’t get banned and you payed quite good money for not too much gold. What do you do when you run out of gold? Do you buy more and more and more, and get caught in a bad cycle where you repeatedly risk any of the above points. The gold isn’t going to last you long, and then you will be right back to where you started, but you will also have less money on your real life bank account.
Lets summarize this shall we. When buying gold, you risk losing money and gear with no gold to be had because you got hacked. You risk getting banned for buying gold. You play with your reputation among your peers with supporting somethings most of them **** the very thought of. You will support an industry that exploit the people working for them. You will spend real life money on a short term fix for your in-game economical problems and it might cause you to get stuck in a gold-buying-spiral.
I’m obviously a World of Warcraft player myself and I wish the gold seller industry didn’t exist. I would never consider buying gold, but I do want to have a lot of it. Because of this, I started looking for strategies on how to make a lot of gold by myself. I had to search quite long and hard until I found what I needed, which was a guide by a guy who had the goal to become World of Warcraft’s first millionaire.
I will wrap it up with saying, don’t buy gold but learn to make the gold yourself, on a daily basis.
By: Anders Fredriksson
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The first thing you need to think about when you consider buying gold is what kind of market you are supporting. There have been reports in the media about people working for really crappy pay as ”gold farmers”. When you buy gold, you support a market that exploits it’s workers.
The second thing you need to consider is your own reputation. You obviously play World of Warcraft and then you have obviously seen the annoying, spamming, gold sellers that hang around in the cities and that flood our trade chats with ”BUY CHEAP GOLD… bla bla bla”. Buying gold from these companies support them and hence will make them continue to make the cities horrible to be in. And since we established that you play WoW, you know how much people **** the gold sellers. Would you really like to be associated to buying gold then?
You have for certain heard about people getting hacked and lost their gear, gold and banked items. This is the third thing to consider. A lot of these hackings are done by gold sellers that, in one way or another, gets a keylogger onto peoples computers. With the keylogger in place, they just need to wait for the person to log in and they will get all the information they need to later log into that account and clear it out. They sell everthing they can to vendors and then transfer all the gold off the characters. If you buy gold, you support an industry that prey on other peoples spare time.
The forth thing to consider is that you will break the user agreement you have with Blizzard if you buy gold. What happens if they find out? You will get banned. Even if you are lucky enough to not get hacked after surfing the gold seller sites, you might end up getting caught by Blizzard and you will then have payed money for some gold that you will never have the chance to enjoy.
The fifth thing to consider might not be as convincing as the other points. So, you have your gold, you didn’t get hacked, you didn’t get banned and you payed quite good money for not too much gold. What do you do when you run out of gold? Do you buy more and more and more, and get caught in a bad cycle where you repeatedly risk any of the above points. The gold isn’t going to last you long, and then you will be right back to where you started, but you will also have less money on your real life bank account.
Lets summarize this shall we. When buying gold, you risk losing money and gear with no gold to be had because you got hacked. You risk getting banned for buying gold. You play with your reputation among your peers with supporting somethings most of them **** the very thought of. You will support an industry that exploit the people working for them. You will spend real life money on a short term fix for your in-game economical problems and it might cause you to get stuck in a gold-buying-spiral.
I’m obviously a World of Warcraft player myself and I wish the gold seller industry didn’t exist. I would never consider buying gold, but I do want to have a lot of it. Because of this, I started looking for strategies on how to make a lot of gold by myself. I had to search quite long and hard until I found what I needed, which was a guide by a guy who had the goal to become World of Warcraft’s first millionaire.
I will wrap it up with saying, don’t buy gold but learn to make the gold yourself, on a daily basis.
By: Anders Fredriksson
About the Author:
I’m an online gamer who have been playing so many different games over the years.
Not too long ago I started up my own news site about the MMO market and it’s now growing into a community. MMOPlaying is starting to become a site I’m happy with.
Craig Apodace
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Mining gold yourself:
Unless you are really strapped for time, most people will recommend you buy a strategy guide and mine gold yourself. There are a number of good guides available that claim to teach you how to make up to 200 gold an hour, and this is in fact possible if you know what you are doing. Good guides will cost money, but can easily repay themselves if you follow what they say.
There are a number of gold mining guides around that go for over 100 pages that detail all kinds of strategies. When you buy a guide like this, make sure the person selling the guide is an experienced player, and check what other people have to say about it. There are many guides that simply give the same information you find in free articles, so you need to know what you are getting in for. However, better quality guides will often tell you insider secrets that you won’t find anywhere else, and can give you a huge advantage over other players.
Buying gold:
The second option – buy wow gold – is possible if you don’t have much time and just want to play at the later levels. Since World of Warcraft first came out over 3 years ago in November 2004, gold prices have dropped dramatically due to the abundance of so called Chinese “gold farmers”, who may play the game for 12 hours (or more) mining gold and selling it for real world money to other players. Depending on the server, you can buy 1000 in game gold for only about $5-15 if you know where to look.
Because gold prices have come down so much, buying it is a good option if you don’t like having to spend hours and hours trying to level up a low character. There are also power leveling services and characters available for sale, allowing you to instantly get your dream character for just a onetime low cost. Again, the large number of sellers available means that the prices are often very reasonable and competitive.
One thing you have to watch out for in buying gold is having your account banned. Blizzard (the company who make’s World of Warcraft) is explicitly against this type of behavior going on, and there have been a number of gold farmer accounts that have been banned. Therefore, it is important to check that the company you are buying gold from is legitimate and reputable.
By: platophoon
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Unless you are really strapped for time, most people will recommend you buy a strategy guide and mine gold yourself. There are a number of good guides available that claim to teach you how to make up to 200 gold an hour, and this is in fact possible if you know what you are doing. Good guides will cost money, but can easily repay themselves if you follow what they say.
There are a number of gold mining guides around that go for over 100 pages that detail all kinds of strategies. When you buy a guide like this, make sure the person selling the guide is an experienced player, and check what other people have to say about it. There are many guides that simply give the same information you find in free articles, so you need to know what you are getting in for. However, better quality guides will often tell you insider secrets that you won’t find anywhere else, and can give you a huge advantage over other players.
Buying gold:
The second option – buy wow gold – is possible if you don’t have much time and just want to play at the later levels. Since World of Warcraft first came out over 3 years ago in November 2004, gold prices have dropped dramatically due to the abundance of so called Chinese “gold farmers”, who may play the game for 12 hours (or more) mining gold and selling it for real world money to other players. Depending on the server, you can buy 1000 in game gold for only about $5-15 if you know where to look.
Because gold prices have come down so much, buying it is a good option if you don’t like having to spend hours and hours trying to level up a low character. There are also power leveling services and characters available for sale, allowing you to instantly get your dream character for just a onetime low cost. Again, the large number of sellers available means that the prices are often very reasonable and competitive.
One thing you have to watch out for in buying gold is having your account banned. Blizzard (the company who make’s World of Warcraft) is explicitly against this type of behavior going on, and there have been a number of gold farmer accounts that have been banned. Therefore, it is important to check that the company you are buying gold from is legitimate and reputable.
By: platophoon
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a fan of world of warcraft
Daina Dyckman
o where is the best place to buy wow gold – well it’s an extremely difficult question for a variety of reasons. You may think that word of mouth can give you a reliable gold seller however this is a notoriously unreliable method and probably has no real basis on the reliability of the gold seller. The difficulty is that Blizzard are very clear on the subject of buying gold – there is an official statement on the World of Warcraft site called antigold which quite clearly states their problem with it.
“Players who buy gold are supporting spamming, botting and keylogging – activities that diminish the gameplay experience for everyone else.”
Gameplay and the economy of a complex online game like World of Warcraft is an extremely delicate balance. We’ve all probably played online games where a sudden change or problem has caused thousands of players to disappear and unsubscribe. Blizzard are well aware of this risk and a black economy of gold outside the game affects their control of the environment.
They also state that they regularly track the source of the gold that is supplied by the sellers – this is because a surprisingly large amount comes from hacked accounts, either via keyloggers, trojans or some other method. There are also weekly incidents with events like this often much worse as some ‘customers’ find their personal details being used in other fraudulent transactions. I used to think that Blizzard wouldn’t want the financial loss of banning a user who had bought or sold gold but when you really think about it – the subscriber base of WoW is the same as a small country. To protect their commercial investment and maintain the integrity of the game banning thousands of users would probably make commercial sense.
Having said all this – there is a problem with World of Warcrafts gameplay when it comes to gold – I found myself spending more and more time just grinding away for gold. To be honest it was becoming less and less fun – until I decided to buy a few of the Gold making guides you see sold all over the place. Well I bought quite a few and can say there are a lot of hopeless ones out there.
By: Joe Simpson
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“Players who buy gold are supporting spamming, botting and keylogging – activities that diminish the gameplay experience for everyone else.”
Gameplay and the economy of a complex online game like World of Warcraft is an extremely delicate balance. We’ve all probably played online games where a sudden change or problem has caused thousands of players to disappear and unsubscribe. Blizzard are well aware of this risk and a black economy of gold outside the game affects their control of the environment.
They also state that they regularly track the source of the gold that is supplied by the sellers – this is because a surprisingly large amount comes from hacked accounts, either via keyloggers, trojans or some other method. There are also weekly incidents with events like this often much worse as some ‘customers’ find their personal details being used in other fraudulent transactions. I used to think that Blizzard wouldn’t want the financial loss of banning a user who had bought or sold gold but when you really think about it – the subscriber base of WoW is the same as a small country. To protect their commercial investment and maintain the integrity of the game banning thousands of users would probably make commercial sense.
Having said all this – there is a problem with World of Warcrafts gameplay when it comes to gold – I found myself spending more and more time just grinding away for gold. To be honest it was becoming less and less fun – until I decided to buy a few of the Gold making guides you see sold all over the place. Well I bought quite a few and can say there are a lot of hopeless ones out there.
By: Joe Simpson
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After I discovered and used the techniques in these guides – making gold in WoW is no longer a problem – my grinding time has dropped considerably and now I spend more time having fun. If you want to read about the best guide that I found it’s here – Warcraft Gold
Joe
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