In MMOs, the gold-selling trade is a big deal. As we know, Blizzard has implemented a series of impediments to the illegal gold trade, making it more difficult for gold-buying players and the gold-selling companies that service them.
However, we found a blog detailing a few "money laundering" techniques. The primary technique let the gold sellers pay a outrageous price.
Here´s a snippet:
Now the Blizzard changed the WoW mail system, the mail will be delay for 1 hour, and most of the cash deal will be intercept by the anti-transaction system. If so, that will be a loss for both of us. In order to avoid the unnecessary delay and loss, we gave it up.
As gold-selling trade becomes a big deal, should MMO developers need to take measures to deal with it???
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