Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Purchasing Gold Screws up a Server's Economy

By Mazie Niederhauser


In an interview with Spiegel Online, the media has provided expert Professor Christian Pfeiffer again with a demand for attention. Especially young people would succumb to the fascination of online role-playing games-the result, problems in school, isolation, addiction. Their demand: World of Warcraft for the first 18 years-what do you think? Update: We have summarized the most interesting arguments in the comments for you. Do you know more?

Here's the thing: Gold sellers don't behave like normal players. They don't buy things from vendors or auction houses, they don't repair their gear, and they certainly don't just leave gold lying around. Gold sellers essentially inject a ton of gold into the server's economy, which can cause problems.

Studies have shown that three percent of boys and really depends on a further 47 percent were high risk - Pfeiffer cites a value of four hours per day upwards (the time before the screen is just one of many aspects). For girls, only 03 percent were dependent. He sees a link with the high proportion of male school dropouts and the smaller proportion of men with high school graduates and students. He therefore calls for all-day schools-sports, music and art instead of games, television and conversation.

If you've been playing World of Warcraft for any period of time, you've almost certainly become gold spam. It may have been in trade chat, an in game mail, or a whisper from a level 1 character with a random name. You have have seen corpses arranged outside an auction house spelling out a gold sellers domain, or for a brief period you may have even gotten an invite from a random level 1 character who then proceeded to spam /raid with broken engrish about how they have best price offer number one.

Know why they do that? It's pretty simple, because it works. Spamming isn't free for them, they have to pay someone to actually send the messages and doing so brings attention to the account they've stolen much quicker; but it's apparently worth it. Every time you buy Wow gold from someone who spams World of Warcraft, you're basically telling them that spamming works and they should continue doing it.




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