Blizzard Closes Another Round of Accounts
by Mike D'Anna 
Jun 12th 2006 at 11:00AM
In their never-ending war against the evil gold farmers of the planet, Blizzard has announced that during the month of May, over 30,000 accounts have been suspended, removing over 30 million in gold from the economy across all servers. Now, just look at those numbers for a moment: 30 thousand accounts closed. That's a number of subscribers that many small game companies would love to claim as their entire playerbase, and those are not only just the cheaters in WoW, but only the ones who got caught! And 30 million gold out of the economy...that's...well, I'm actually not sure what the hell that means, because I'm not an economist. i'm sure Ben Stien could tell you.In any case, the bottom line is, don't cheat, or Blizzard will get you. If they're lucky. You can read the full announcement at the official homepage right here.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Blizzard, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Hoops Jun 12th 2006 3:08PM
Hmmmm,
1,000 gold per account? Man, do I feel poor!
Nathan G. Jun 13th 2006 1:44AM
Well they may have cancled 30k accounts but i still see farmers. Saw 2 last night on Thorium Brotherhood runnin back and forth from the AH and mailbox in Orgrimmar.
boneyard Jun 13th 2006 3:47AM
blizzard might get to you eventually, but prolly too late to do some actual damage or else this problem would have gone away months ago. it's nice to see blizzard keeps fighting them but they ain't winning it seems.
Dave N. Jun 13th 2006 10:32AM
Once again, I get the distinct feeling they are mostly just nabbing the people using hacks and bots - which is fine by me. There will not be a noticable change in actual farming until they start cancelling accounts that are active 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
I guess I really don't care if people buy gold, nor do I care if people hate the people that do. IMO, the only reason Blizzard is against selling gold is because it's a piece of profit they aren't getting. You can't logically say they are against it because of game balance: their PvP, honor and raiding/casual system is whacked, and they aren't fixing that either.
My opinion only; I'm not trying to convice anyone to change their minds about farming.
Blackjack21 Jun 13th 2006 1:00PM
Cause if blizzard aggresively went after gold buyers, most of the servers would be ghost towns. Farmers are still around because there is a huge market of lazy ass gamers that don't want to play the game. Just buy their way through it.