WoW Gold Farmers IGE

Major MMO gold selling firm IGE has been targeted by a Florida class action lawsuit claiming that the company has impaired users of World Of Warcraft by its in-game gold farming, adding to a recent Blizzard lawsuit against gold-farmers Peons4Hire.

Specifically, the independently filed suit, which is not associated with World Of Warcraft creator Blizzard, claims that IGE is "...reaping substantial profits by knowingly interfering with and substantially impairing the intended use and enjoyment associated with consumer agreements between Blizzard and subscribers to its virtual world called World Of Warcraft."

Some of the specific effects that the suit is claiming to individual World Of Warcraft subscribers include those of time ("IGE gold farmers strip old scarce and limited virtual world resources and materials") and devaluation of currency, while also pointing out destroying of "the subscriber experience" through chat spamming, junk mail, and "honest subscribers [being] competitively disadvantaged."

The suit is particularly targeting Florida's Deceptive And Unfair Trade Practices Act, as well as consumer protection statutes and various other claimed contraventions, and is seeking a jury trial.

Gamasutra looked for commentary on this suit from Dr. S. Gregory Boyd, an associate with Kenyon & Kenyon in the New York office, and author and editor of the textbook 'A Business & Legal Primer for Game Development'. Boyd commented: "This case is in such an early stage, it is difficult to talk about what might develop", but went on to note:

"MMO’s, particularly in the last generation, were designed to be played for fun and not profit. Even 4-5 years ago, I do not think there was a wide awareness of how large these problems could grow or how much damage this type of activity could cause. Consider that a modern MMO takes 40-75 million dollars to create, employing teams dozens of people over 3 to 6 years.

The game designers and publishers do their best to make those games to stand the test of time and keep the economies in balance. When people play the game in an unsanctioned way, for profit, it threatens to send the game economies out of balance and diminishes the experience of all the players in the world. People like Dr. Edward Castranova have shown how the practices such as unsanctioned gold farming gradually destroy these valuable game assets and diminish player experiences.

Traditionally, the players have been harmed by this type of activity and not really had a voice against the people ruining the economies and diminishing the game play experience. Hopefully, this type of legal action will give them that voice."

However, Boyd also cautioned: "It is also important to contrast what this case is about with "sanctioned" real money trade. Some games like EverQuest II and others have designed the games from the beginning to support limited forms of real money exchange.

When playing these games, the exchange is part of the rules and is expected by the players and game designers. The games were designed to withstand that type of play. In these instances, the games do not suffer the same negative effects."

In fact, this suit joins another, less well-documented one recently filed by Blizzard itself, as a Blizzard company employee posted the following on the official forums on May 26th:

"As many of you know, the latest content patch, along with many great new content additions, contains technical counter-measures designed to combat in-game gold spamming. Our efforts to reduce in-game abuse and create a fun, safe environment for everyone are never-ending.

With that said, we felt that it was important to share with the community just how serious we are in our efforts to combat this type of abuse. Blizzard has filed a federal lawsuit against the operators of Peons4hire, a popular gold-selling organization which many of you have no doubt seen advertised. As part of the lawsuit, the operators of Peons4hire have been asked to immediately cease all in-game spamming efforts by all entities and websites under their control.

If this organization refuses to act accordingly, further legal action will be taken. We'll be sure to keep you posted on the progress of this topic."
by Simon Carless

Ige WOW Gold Reviews

IGE review- IGE is a much improved WOW gold company and I now consider it to be one of the best companies to buy gold World of Warcraft. This company had it's issues before it had an ownership change in 2008 but now IGE is a class A place to buy gold. IGE has very good prices and and good customer service. I strongly recommend using IGE as a good place to buy wow gold.

IGE World of Warcraft Gold Review

I don't know why we didn't review IGE before. IGE is the undisputed KING when it comes to WoW gold.
Why is that?
Simple, they are the longest and oldest company (that I know of) that sells gold. Not to mention, that it is the longest running one. IGE has been in the gold market since 2001, which makes it 6 years old. (That shows they know a little something about this market!)
Looking at the website you can see some very important things. The first thing that I notice is the Anti-SPAM pledge which states:
"You will never see in game spam from IGE. Just like you, we game too. Nothing aggravates more than being pestered by gold sellers in game. We do not condone spamming in any form – in-game or email. We take the privacy of our customers very seriously, and do everything possible to promote the fun in gaming. Please do your part. Do not support spammers." -From IGE's website
That, to me, is one of the most important things. I have played WoW since open beta and I have NEVER seen any kind of gold spam from IGE. On a side note, I ABSOLUTELY hate in-game gold spam more than anything else and I wouldn't want to spend one cent with the companies that do spam in-game (end of rant).
The next thing I see is the which is very important. It's good to know if something goes wrong they will bend over backwards to fix it. They are Hacker Safe, VeriSign secured, accepts Paypal and moneybookers.com for payment, and are BizRate.com "Customer Certified" based on 25,000 customers. That means they have acheived a proven track record of dependability and customer satisfaction.
As for prices, IGE has the cheapest compared to all the other top gold sellers we have reviewed. Get a whole lot more gold for your money this way. From the orders I have done in the past the delivery rate is pretty good and I only had to wait for gold longer than what they said only once.
Overall, from the great customer service, awesome prices, and good delivery time you will end up being pleasantly surprised like I have been before! If you are looking to buy WoW gold then you MUST check out IGE.

Ige

Ige has been in the Warcraft Gold business for a long time and have set themselves apart as a very trusted Wow Gold seller. Serving serving both US and EU servers, IGE.com offers some of the best deals on Wow Gold and pride themselves on speed and security. They are Verisign secured, BizRate customer certified and PayPal certified.

IGE.com offers superior customer support through phone, live chat and email. Ordering takes less than 2 minutes!