Real Money Trading hit game World of Warcraft

• April 9, 2015
• Technology Product

Tokens can be purchased with real money or gold in the game buy

The introduction of a way to use real money to buy virtual money World of Warcraft has brought a major change in the value of gold in the game.

The exchange rate for the dollar by almost a third in the first day that Blizzard lets people exchange like real money for in-game gold.

When starting players spend $ 20 (€ 13) per 30,000 gold coins to spend in the world of fantasy game.

But 24 hours later, the same amount of money has about 20,000 registered players.

So far, the only way that the players of World of Warcraft could artificially increase the fate of his characters was visiting a website and gray market secretly buy gold from authorized suppliers.

A sharp

The practice was dangerous because it is technically a violation of the terms and conditions of WoW. Who caught buying gold in this way, their account may be closed.

Last year, Blizzard plans for a "season symbol" $ 20, which could be converted into national currency introduce WoW has announced. Currently, only in North America WoW player, the token can buy.

The chips can be traded on the auction house gold in game - brought the people an effective way to real money for virtual money. Those who, a lot of wow gold you have to buy the token and use it to pay your subscription online games

The counter trading system was launched on 8 April in life and at first the exchange rate for each rose more than 30000 starting point, but fell sharply within hours of the exchange rate of the US dollar and is now hovering around $ 22,000, a 20.

Some have speculated that the exchange rate of the US dollar would continue to fall to the gray in the sources of WoW gold market, which currently has 10 general 000-15000 piece for $ 20 observed.

"The fluctuation Lot"

Before the release of Blizzard said that the exchange rate charges will be determined by the games internal metrics.

Alec sea, the new gaming site Rock, Paper, Shotgun, told the BBC that there was some "polymerase more." In the output decline in the value of the individual records

"No special condemnation," he said. "Blizzard is to experience something new. They went to see what happened, and it will be much fluctuation as a game with a population of several million suits his.

"I am sure that the long-term plan is to bring more operations within the jurisdiction of the snowstorm, and potentially reduce the influence of the gold farmers and people play more," he added.