14 DAY TRIAL // Everyone's suing someone these days, and today, it's Blizzard. They're taking legal action against Gold Farmers, posting a form in which The World of Warcraft message board has a Blizzard team member announcing they are taking such steps against a particular group of gold farmers in their hit MMO title, as FiringSquad reports.
Blizzard's message:
"As many of you know, the latest content patch, along with many great new content additions, contains technical counter-measures designed to combat in-game gold spamming. Our efforts to reduce in-game abuse and create a fun, safe environment for everyone are never-ending.
With that said, we felt that it was important to share with the community just how serious we are in our efforts to combat this type of abuse. Blizzard has filed a federal lawsuit against the operators of Peons4hire, a popular gold-selling organization which many of you have no doubt seen advertised. As part of the lawsuit, the operators of Peons4hire have been asked to immediately cease all in-game spamming efforts by all entities and websites under their control.
If this organization refuses to act accordingly, further legal action will be taken. We'll be sure to keep you posted on the progress of this topic."
For those who are not WoW gamers or MMORPG fans, all this will sound like mumbo-jumbo, but you don't have to be a genius to know that a lot of bad stuff can happen in WoW. As long as everything you gain during gameplay is worth real money in real life, problems are bound to occur and spamming is one of those issues.
A girl once offered a "mount" for an epic flying mount (worth 5000 gold or something), so don't be surprised if WoW soon beats the GTA series and other games surrounded by scandalous issues.