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Building up your character is fun, but the game doesn't really get good until you hit level 70. err... what's the cap in this game?

Putting in the effort and remembering a weak character that use to kick your ass and now you walk all over them. priceless.

Warhammer is really fun. Good to see they are doing stuff to keep goldsellers at bay.

What's to stop people just setting up a new account though?

I know that every time I step foot in Stormwind in WoW, there's a new person (from the same website) outside the bank, lvl 1, selling gold. Maybe if it never takes off, they won't get the money to keep on setting up accounts. Gold sellers suck, so I hope that happens.

This is a great thing they're saying, I remember when I played WoW every where you went you were bombarded with constant Gold or Powerleveling services and it got very tiresome very quickly.

Yea for sure...definitely should build it yourself from the ground up...that's the only way in my opinion

Great to hear about a developer stepping up to the plate, when I did play WoW for a brief period gold farming and spamming of the sale of gold really irked the fuck out of me. Good job Mythic Entertainment.

I know quite a few folks that bought gold on WoW whenever they wanted to get their epic flyers.  Meanwhile, I worked my ass off for it, grindin' like Hell.  Personally, the thing I hate is the advertising through whispers and spamming on all the chat channels possible.  I mean, the way I see it...if someone is going to buy gold, they can easily alt-tab out and look the shit up on the web.

Since launch day, I've been reporting gold-farming spammers through the in-game petitioning and have had positive results and friendly/grateful responses from the CSRs.

My only complaint at this point is, why are they letting these guys create endless duplicate accounts to spam from? Wouldn't it make more sense just to forbid any comments including the URLs of these sites in them (and not give feedback to the user stating that their message was blocked so they won't simply try to get around it by re-phrasing their messages).

I mean, if 300 different accounts are spamming some website, then you could wait for 300 accounts to spam hundreds of thousands of your users and THEN eventually ban them . . . or you could ban one URL and prevent those 300*200,000 spam messages from being sent out IN THE FIRST PLACE.

awesome, I don't even play MMOs and I think farming is gross. Real farming is awesome on the other hand, milking chickens and the like

I'm pretty ignorant of MMO's, since my only experience with them is jumping into Second Life for all of five minutes, then quickly jumped out due to it's boring me to death. But who in their right (or even wrong) mind would buy MMO gold with real money? I understand that it would screw up the fictional economy. But I certainly have no pity for those dumb enough to buy from these swindlers. Isn't the point of these games, you know, to play THROUGH them?

Fighting gold sellers are always a losing battle, no matter how you do it. The farmers always find a way, always. I consider myself experienced when it comes to MMORPGs...yea, they always find a way.
Speaking of gold sellers. Hellgate:London is pretty much just a haven for goldselling bots now. With the game pretty much dying the only thing you see in chat is gold bots and its a constant flow of the spam.

I would think it would be possible to have an MMO WITHOUT currency.  I wonder where cheaters would concentrate then.