World of Warcraft co suspends 18,000 gold farmer accounts

Krish Dec 26 2005

World of Warcraft

Bizzard Entertainment in an aggressive move to cracking down on cheating banned as many as 18000 of World of Warcraft accounts for engaging in activities that rampantly violate the Terms of User (ToS) Agreement.

war of aircraft

A majority of these accounts were found to be using third-party programs to farm gold and items. Such actions can severely impact the economy of a realm and the overall game enjoyment for all players.
We will continue to actively monitor all World of Warcraft realms in order to protect the service and its players from the negative effects of cheating. Please note that selling World of Warcraft content, such as gold, items, and characters, can result in the permanent removal of the involved accounts from World of Warcraft.

Gold farmers are the worst hit in the latest purge. They have been accused of using third party software in order to automate to perform tasks like farming. It was chiefly done to ease the process of their illicit task.

Gold farmers in a bid to get some cash in illicit way (in case of World of Warcraft and other MMORPGs) get 'drops' or high level rare items and sell them online shopping sites. Thus they violate ToS and artificially inflate the in game economy. It's believed that one out of four players was acting as illegal gold farmers.

Link