World Wide WoW: The New York Times, gold farming, and righteous anger

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6-21-2007 @ 3:19PM

ben1778 said...

We do some of that, for example, yelling at people for linking to Thottbot, which has gold-selling ads --and asking that people instead use links to Wowhead.com -- which worked very hard to get rid of the gold selling ads, yet continue to make enough revenue from other ads to keep the site running great.

I am guilty of dehumanizing people over the topic, but usually only players who have PURCHASED gold, not the ones who farm it. I don't feel bad about lecturing another player who bought gold. Nor do I feel bad about general chat alerts letting everyone know who is buying gold... or forum posts calling out the gold buyers.

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