World of Warcraft Girl sells body for imaginary gold to buy imaginary horse.

[cutie_cat_4ever]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

Some of my friends used to be into online gaming and told me for a few bucks on ebay, you can buy whatever kind of game currency you want... not sure why she didn't go that route

My bf in fact spent money to buy items on ebay for Diablo 2.

But how much does 5000 gold in WoW cost...I admit I play Neverwinter Nights and 5000 doesn't sound a lot to me, lol

And it reminds me that one South Park episode where they all sat in the basement and played WoW killing boars for days and nights just to upgrade themselves...the part where they crap on the floor was pretty bad, lol

[JonInKC]

You guys should be watching the simpsons right now.

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by JonInKC

You guys should be watching the simpsons right now.

that was hilarious

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by cutie_cat_4ever

My bf in fact spent money to buy items on ebay for Diablo 2.

But how much does 5000 gold in WoW cost...I admit I play Neverwinter Nights and 5000 doesn't sound a lot to me, lol

And it reminds me that one South Park episode where they all sat in the basement and played WoW killing boars for days and nights just to upgrade themselves...the part where they crap on the floor was pretty bad, lol

5000 gold is about $800 to buy.

[tld221]

bwhahahahaha you had me at "world of warcraft"

im not gonna repeat any of what's been said above, except i too had a friend/coworker who was OBSESSED with d&d and Everquest. he would skip staff meetings to play the damn thing. and his hard drive was old as dust, and he was spending crazy money oon what i guess was the subscription fee to play it online with other people...

yeah. but if games keeps the crazies in, so be it.
(just thought of a HORIBLE joke but its really too soon...)

[ilovemyglo]

I will admit that made me laugh- namely because... well... I actually play WoW...
But getting a flying mount doesn't take that long to get.

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by ilovemyglo

I will admit that made me laugh- namely because... well... I actually play WoW...
But getting a flying mount doesn't take that long to get.

3rd WoW nerd spotted! Alliance or Horde?

[RACooper]

Originally Posted by centaur532

5000 gold is about $800 to buy.

Not according to the latest 'gold spams'

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by RACooper

Not according to the latest 'gold spams'

Haha, are you a 4th WoWer here? The 'legit' sources for buying gold list 5k gold as around $800. Speaking of gold, I finally cracked 500 and I now have less than 100 to go for my epic kitty.

[RACooper]

Oh I'm sure there's more than just four

But yeah I play and have since the beta - the game design forum I visit tends to attract alot of developers looking for people to look at game play and mechanics - so I've gotten to experience WoW, WoW:BC, LOTRO, GW, CoH, and CoV all in beta phases (hoping for Warhammer, Conan, or Fallen Earth next) but WoW is the only one I've stuck with as something to actual play with as a hobby.

[SigmaChiCard]

While I know very little about actually playing the games, I wrote my legal seminar paper on Virtual Reality Games & Real World Disputes. So much crazy stuff happens in these games. I focused mine on Second Life because I know most about it, but it's insane. Of course, I assume most people who play the game know about the guy in WoW who murdered his "friend" who stole his virtual sword. A CEO of a virtual bank (in everquest, i think) cashed out with something like a $100,00 dollars of other people's money. It's insane the things going on in these games....but so intriguing.

[RACooper]

A surprising amount of conflict, and just plain crazy, from these 'virtual enviroments' does spill over into the 'real world' -both are real since you are interacting with them, just through a different medium, which I think alot of people tend to forget. They assume different social attitudes within the game/simulation enviroment that'll allow them to act out in ways they would never consider in actual person to person interactions mainly due to the aninimity granted through the creation of 'virtual personas'... only thing is though some people take it to extremes, or become so invested emotionally in the virtual world they make extremely poor choices when it comes to the real world.

A case in point is this:
http://www.qj.net/WoW-player-harrass...g/49/aid/91058

Guy was an a**hole in game to a woman - woman's husband gets mad and tells guy off in game - a**hole makes mistake of telling husband off and stupidly giving out his physical address - a**hole ends up getting badly beaten up by irrate husband and buddies...