Blizard Sues Virtual Gold Seller
DaphneDiane writes "Blizzard announced that they are suing one of the heavily spamming gold sellers, Peons4hire. Peons4hire had recently been spamming players in World of Warcraft with multi-line messages advertising their power leveling and gold selling business. With the advent of the recently released 2.1.0 patch Blizzard made it easier to report and block these spammers. I've noticed a large decrease in spam while playing since the patch. It used to be that I would get nearly a dozen spams a night but I barely have seen any since."
Just about the first message I recieved in LotRO was a gold spam, although haven't seen many since.
I guess it's pretty dumb doing it in the game itself, but as long as the makers allow trial accounts to sit in a single area and talk to unlimited people, it's not likely to stop.
It seems they're suing them for spamming, rather than for selling gold - which while being against the EULA, probably isn't actually illegal. Be interesting to see how they get on with that, might be difficult to prove the gold-selling companies are the ones doing the spamming - it'd be like suing deAgostini because you got horsed.
Blizard Sues Virtual Gold Seller
