World of Warcraft - lol wow sux, *plays Rift*, lol back 2 wow

[GoSkins561]

So pretend gold in a game has actual street value?

[slackermike]

My account got hacked on Wednesday. My guild bank was cleaned out and all my characters stripped clean except for my main (80 pally, which I've played since 2005) which was deleted completely. Blizzard is looking into it and has assured me they can restore everything. So far though all I can do is wait.

Blizzard sells an authenticator for $6.50 on their site which makes it impossible for anyone to access your account without it, even if they find your password. I'm getting one, and highly recommend you all do the same.

My wife's account was hacked as well, and Blizzard has restored everything.

[hp703]

So pretend gold in a game has actual street value?

You have no idea..., there is like an entire market/stock exchange for it

[KDawg]

Hmmm... Maybe I should start playing and selling gold for cash...

[hp703]

Hmmm... Maybe I should start playing and selling gold for cash...

Good luck, the Chinese/Koreans have a choke hold on this


Side note, I can't get to YouTube or actually anything WoW related from work. But has anyone seen the video of a Rogue soloing 25-man Patchwerk? or Sarth 3D with all DK's? Comments

[Henry]

Actually, I was hearing from some of my guildies the other night that they were hacking the authenticators not too long ago with some virus that gave them a quick opening.

Not sure if it was fixed yet or not. They were talking about it while one of our guildies accounts had been hacked and foiled since they demoted them to the point of no bank access. Sucks for him though cause I am sure he had well over 100k gold all legit.

I play on a Mac so I'm not too worried about that.

So pretend gold in a game has actual street value?

You have no idea.

[hp703]

What are the odds of getting a little HTTR guild together, nothing serious, we seem to be spread across various realms...maybe pick one and all roll some alts?

Lets make it happen

[GoSkins561]

My question is, how long does it take to accumulate 100,000 gold points?

[hp703]

My question is, how long does it take to accumulate 100,000 gold points?

Depending on how much effort you put into it, many people take advantage of the Auction Houses in game; they play into and monitor it much like rising and falling stocks.

Assuming your finally a the max level cap, you earn gold for doing daily quests...you have a max of 25 you can do per day at around 13.5 gold gained per quest. It's quite easy to earn a couple hundred a day

It all depends on how much effort you want to put towards monotonous farming, but even if you busted ass every day...100K is still quite an achievement for a guild...let alone a single person

[greenspandan]

The only way they can hack your account is if they are able to infect your system then they have to monitor your system constantly and wait for that 60 second window of when you authenticator code available. It is a very timing specific situation and is not common enough to warrant a fix and besides there is nothing Blizz can do to fix the problem. The only way they can get the spyware into your system to perform this is IF you click on one of their links in the fake emails or visit suspect WoW websites.

this is true ... there's just not a lot blizzard can do about people that let their computers get infected with trojans.

If he had 100,000 gold that has a street value of around $10,000 assuming they are sellling it for $10/1K which is what they are spamming in the game. And that is a payday for them.

well, 100,000 gold is a lot closer to $100 in value than $10,000. i've got 100k gold myself (not bought -- i made it myself sellign gems and killing monsters). blizzard is smart. they control inflation very tightly and intentionally build in a very large inflation rate. this is in order to make it harder to make a real-world profit from gold selling. (they discourage it and will ban you if they catch you doing it but it is still quite widespread).

So pretend gold in a game has actual street value?

yes indeed. mostly chinese sweatshop workers "farming" gold, and selling it. it's not good money. if you tried it yourself you could probably make like $1-$2 an hour, and it's mind numbingly tedious.

[PhlipOut]

you dorks ever get outside or anything? or is it "game hard or go home" 24/7?

[#1 McNabb Fan]

you dorks ever get outside or anything? or is it "game hard or go home" 24/7?

We venture into a whole new world unlike you who spends all day drinking, watching NASCAR and posting on a message board.

[PhlipOut]

We venture into a whole new world unlike you who spends all day drinking, watching NASCAR and posting on a message board.

shows how much you know, NASCAR's not even on all day.

[Sandman69]

The wife and I both play it. Pretty casually nowadays. We both have a couple level 80s. Nothing crazy raid wise, just like getting on and having some fun.

I go a month or so at a time without playing, and usually when I get a heavy play stint going it is only a couple hours in the evening after the kiddos are in bed. Working on leveling a Pally atm. We play on Gorefiend / Horde.

[#1 McNabb Fan]

shows how much you know, NASCAR's not even on all day.

It is if you make a NASCAR world in WOW.