1- Gold Trading Exposed: Introduction Article

It is a multi-billion dollar trade, after the rejection of the year by most players. In the first feature of the four parts of the weekly series, Nick Ryan reports on the current market situation in Ramadi, a thriving currency legend, characters and items. Future installments will look at this virtual shady business from the viewpoint of gold traders themselves, and the players for games, and developers who make games and online games run collective. This week, we offer an overview of this booming market and controversial - and wonder why, if it was such a big business, very few of the recognition to do so.Gold is selling like pornography: something most of us do in recognition? Shameful secret, alone, and indulged thing at night, in front of the screen, or during lunchbreak, safely away from a partner, when a credit card transaction or a quick mind will go unnoticed by others in the game?Confidential or not, we are 'gold sellers' all the hatred. It seems. Despise them, so. Ask friends or colleagues: how many openly admit to buying services from gold farmers? Not much. And those that do not harp on the most likely against them just as loudly as the next person.But just who are these scourges of the world games? You probably know as anonymous figures suffered by trade chat, and offers a great game currency, and energy services of the settlement, or sale of antiques and rare recipes. In games like World of Warcraft, and the infamous random whisper from Level 1 - "hello, are you there?" - Quickly lead to the announcement macroed If you bother to respond. With the present 'grind', known in most online games a lot, how many of us may be tempted to make that cut?Received wisdom, as we shall see later from major gaming companies, is that these groups are as good as organized crime: they support and encourage piracy and theft of credit card accounts. It is not just a source of inconvenience and headache, but the appearance of the plague to be stamped by the costs that we all have millions of greenbacks.But if there is no demand, I'd be a market, not the gold sellers. On the contrary, the sale of gold - or "trading real money" (the union) to give him unable to name the industry, defined as the sale in the real world of goods and services produced virtual online games - now valued at U.S. $ 2 billion annually. This figure is increasing.Jacobs' Rant More and more of us secretly buying gold and energy services of the settlement? When raised certainly Mythic (Warhammer Online) coach Mark Jacobs, published in this issue again in the autumn of last year, up a huge response."I hate gold sellers / spammers," said Jacobs. "No, this is not strong enough, let me try again, and I hate gold sellers with every fiber of my being. Ah, this is the best ... and now it has taken Obnoxiousness them to new levels with unwanted email service gold, I hate gold and vary even more now than ever before. "He added, in the tirade of very personal, and claim that" this has been blocked shocks like crazy. "We do not wait and allow them to stay in the game and ban collectively, the men in the ban on my useless, butts and time-consuming on the spot. Our team is a blow whose sole purpose is to get these men of our business as servers as soon as possible." feet to a general prohibition every time he was kicked a spammer. Messages such as "Tchar'zanek ordered the slaughter of [Spammer), and all others who weaken the Raven Host kind by providing wealth and power to not worth" has become commonplace.Ended Jacobs said: "We are in for a real battle against these nutrients the bottom, and there will be a long battle and expensive, but one we are going to take them, and this is only the first step in any case, this is war ..."