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Today’s Insightful Mass Media Headline
“Video game fan asks court to ban real sloth and greed from World of Warcraft”
OK, the greed I understand, but sloth?
Maybe they mean these guys:
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about 2 years ago
Their three toes perfectly align with mousebuttons, giving the sloth an unfair advantage in PvP.
about 2 years ago
The only financial stake the players have in the game is their monthly fees, but if it goes to class action that could add up to a lot.
I don’t think they have much of a chance, though. We’ll see.
about 2 years ago
“In addition, IGE U.S. is no longer involved in the virtual gold business, said Miami attorney James M. Miller, who is representing the company. He declined to elaborate further.”
I wonder if the attorney for the defense is aware that the court could just check http://www.ige.com to refute this particular claim. Sure looks like they are selling wow gold to me.
about 2 years ago
Yeah Axecleaver, but that’s probably IGE CN (which is domain suffix for china), at least that’s what they’d argue, anyway.
On a side note, if you notice the little radar map, you’ll see Sarasota safely outside of the dumb radius. Whew, almost got meh!
about 2 years ago
Antonio Hernandez has some spare change?
about 2 years ago
Florida. Go figure.
about 2 years ago
Yeah, like you don’t want to sue the fuckers who aren’t doing their SSO dailies.
about 2 years ago
Sloth’s going to be a bit of a problem. Its a game. It’s an activity you do instead of doing something productive. It is defined by sloth (oh, and by those pesky people researching the field of sloth or those trying to capitalise on the other six deadly sins).
Banning Greed from a game not designed to cash in game transactions I’m all for. I wonder how far back the class action suit could claim and if I’d be able to claim for the… erm… gross psychological pain I suffered on the RP forums in Europe.
Somehow my left brain can see this as being an ironic reversal of RMT (getting money out of the gamein a completely new and interesting way), whereas the rest of me wonders when this comment chain is going to dissolve into a Free Market Corporatism Fascism vs Authoritarian Communism regarding RMT in general
about 2 years ago
@Naladini I can’t stop laughing at your comments. My burst of laughter have drawn the attention of my coworkers and managers
about 2 years ago
Unfortunately since he doesn’t actually own anything he can’t prove any actual loss thanks to the EULA. Maybe other than his time which is exactly what he’s spent on the game, $14.99 a month plus purchase of the actual game. If he could get Blizzard on his side he might have something, though; who knows. Hmm, Interesting stuff …
about 2 years ago
“…the rest of me wonders when this comment chain is going to dissolve into a Free Market Corporatism Fascism vs Authoritarian Communism regarding RMT in general.”
It all depends on when pokofy neva weighs in.
about 2 years ago
I grinned.
about 2 years ago
The lack of perspective in the article is interesting.
“the cost of buying 80,000 gold coins was $2,399.94″ gives no impression of how much (or how little) 80,000 gold is. As it happens, it’s an enormous amount of in-game money; more than a third of the absolute gold carrying cap. That’s an awful lot of flasks, or even an awful lot of BoE epics.
My personal feeling is that gold buying is unfair, but the article exaggerates how much money is required to play the rmt game.
about 2 years ago
I think you meant these guys, actually.
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/play.shtml?mea=61792
about 2 years ago
… but sloths are cute. Why ban them?
IGE split with one company being called Affinity Media and the other IGE. Supposedly IGE was sold back to Yantis and Affinity is all by it’s lonesome with no affiliation to IGE and gold selling now. Affinity is saying Hernandez is suing the wrong company, is what I get from it. However, there’s several documents floating around on the internet that supposedly show that IGE and Affinity are still very much one company. A lot of folks think that this claim (along with the paperwork) is fake or a front, and this is nothing more then the same thing Brock and Yantis used to do when they were buying up game sites.
Little background:
http://www.mmobux.com/articles/760/the-rise-and-fall-of-ige
Pig did some nice detective work:
http://wanderinggoblin.com/literaturedetail.php?id=46
about 2 years ago
Freakazoid: With a family tree that doesn’t branch, Gomer G Inbredingto the 8th might not seem to be all that his ancestral namesake was, but he’s certainly nothing but.
about 2 years ago
Thank god, that sloth is a serious ninja looter.
about 2 years ago
Its easy suing the American companies because well… they are in America. It has to be done I guess – you gotta start somewhere. However all it does is just drives the illegal RMT operations overseas to China, Vietnam and North Korea (where they laugh at your puny subpoenas and intellectual property rights). Aye, better a real communist gold farmer than a Yankee who subcontracts it to an Indian IT peon I guess.
Just try catching that Sloth in Pyongyang I DARE YOU!
about 2 years ago
JuJutsu: Shush! Don’t jinx it!
about 2 years ago
“The world … even has its own carefully calibrated economy.”
Orly?
about 2 years ago
“Unfortunately since he doesn’t actually own anything he can’t prove any actual loss”
Wait a minute… If you can’t prove it’s loss because they don’t own it… How can it be legal for IGE to sell something they don’t own either?
That’s like me saying, “Hey! I got this nice house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue I’ll let you rent for a few grand.”
about 2 years ago
I got some ocean front property in Arizona too and if you buy that i’ll throw in the Golden Gate for free.
The point is a sucker is born every minute. In this case I don’t think the courts are gonna play that role.
about 2 years ago
Anybody else notice all the sponsored ads on the side advertising WOW gold for sale?