Gaming World of Warcraft gamer settles legal case with AAMI

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AFTER five years an Australian World of Warcraft player has come to an undisclosed settlement with AAMI after it accused her of insurance fraud.

Adelaide woman Katrina Fincham spent hours every day playing World of Warcraft collecting gold and other items which she could sell to other players. She claims to have purchased $75,000 of gold bullions with the profits from her online business, Virtual Items Sales.

The process is known as "Gold Farming", a method of acquiring in-game currency which players can buy in exchange for real-world mine. Ms Fincham earned up to $700 a day from gold farming.

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Aah yes, Gold farmers. Creating unneccesary inflation and ruining the wow economy since 2005.
 
Jesus effing Christ. I thought I was earning good gold at around 5k gold per day (although i spend about 1.5 hours a day on WoW) and that's probably the equivalent of 3USD? How the hell can she earn 700 USD per day? Thats equivalent to 3 million WoW gold on my server PER DAY... She's fucking godly....
 
Wummi said:
Jesus effing Christ. I thought I was earning good gold at around 5k gold per day (although i spend about 1.5 hours a day on WoW) and that's probably the equivalent of 3USD? How the hell can she earn 700 USD per day? Thats equivalent to 3 million WoW gold on my server PER DAY... She's fucking godly....
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Still how can this be a legal business? I thought selling the in-game gold currency in World of Warcraft was illigal?
 
iPeez said:
Still how can this be a legal business? I thought selling the in-game gold currency in World of Warcraft was illigal?
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was a part of the EULA. I dunno how she got away with this one.
 
Wummi said:
Jesus effing Christ. I thought I was earning good gold at around 5k gold per day (although i spend about 1.5 hours a day on WoW) and that's probably the equivalent of 3USD? How the hell can she earn 700 USD per day? Thats equivalent to 3 million WoW gold on my server PER DAY... She's fucking godly....
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As someone who hasn't played WoW since before Wrath came out, that's an insane amount of gold.
 
It is bannable, but Blizzard doesn't tend to do much about it--except maybe ban them from trade chat. They don't press charges on anyone. It is just so prevalent. It isn't super easy to carryout, though. Most people get reported right away if they send you whispers or make trade chat messages. They have to resort to some pretty crazy stuff:
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^Yes. That is a bunch of orcs who have hacked themselves to appear as "IGS.COM". I remember that happening on my server and it was the funniest thing to see.

@Wummi: 5k gold at 1.5 hours per day? I hardly have 5k gold on most of my chars. :( Then again, I don't PvE, so I suppose I'm bound to be a PvP hobo.
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As for the article, it is interesting. Using WoW gold to buy real gold.
 
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