Mythic CEO unleashes a torrent of wrath on gold sellers and spammers in MMO

2008-09-25 23:11:22

Not even a week after the title's release, developer Mythic Entertainment found Mark Jacobs revealed in his blog that over 400 "gold farmers" have already been banned in their MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. He stated on the blog:

"Online Games Are A Niche Market. Since WAR launched we have been banning these [gold farmers] like crazy. As of Saturday Night, we had banned about 400 of them. My [Corporate Social Responisibilities] have a zero tolerance policy. We don't wait and let them stay in the game and ban them en-masse, my guys ban their useless, time-consuming butts right away."

We checked on one of the popular "gold shopping" websites to see how much real money does it cost to purchase fake money. Observing from one of the title's most populated servers, Phoenix Throne, an amount of 2,000 gold sells for $1,749.99 USD--pardon our math, but that's almost 75 cents per gold! Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, published by Electronic Arts, is out now for the PC.