I’ve been talking a lot about being turned away from subscription games over the last year, but I have to confess. Â I lied. Â The truth is that I am actually playing pretty much every MMO out there, with multiple accounts. Â I’m also putting my programming skills to good use by writing scripts and the occasional key logger.
It turns out that it is both very easy and very profitable to be a gold farmer.
At first, I just used two PCs to play WoW and collect things in game, like leather, cloth, and ore. Â I sold those in the auction house for ridiculous prices because people at the top levels who want to power level a trade skill have more money than time. Â After selling a bunch of gold to other players, I used my earnings to buy a server capable of running multiple sessions so that I could run more accounts and utilize the new scripts I had been writing. Â More profits, more servers. Â WoW alone is netting me just over $1500 a month. Â And with the economy in the shitter, finding companies selling off assets on the cheap is easy.
I quit my job. Â I branched out into other games. Â I hired my wife, my brothers and a few other people. Â I wrote new scripts, I invested in technology to disguise our IP addresses, and I started key logging. Â Did you account get hacked? Â That might have been me.
Furthermore, while Blizzard continues to fight the good fight and bans my accounts (though not at a rate that even comes close to making it unprofitable), other game companies, I have found, can be bribed. Â As long as I use my accounts to do some product testing for the, report duping bugs and the like, they are willing to leave me alone. Â “For the greater good” is what we have agreed to call it. Â Besides, they know, people want to buy gold, but they’d be ridiculed and flamed for trying to sell it themselves in addition to their subscription fee. Â Simple as that.
Oh, and if you believed a single word of what you just read… shame on you. Â It’s April 1st.
Enjoy the Internet today, and take your salt shaker… Â 🙂