Players in World of Warcraft are tossing around thousands of gold these days. From epics, to flying mounts, to professions, to farming rep, everything costs gold, and of course you want to have all the goodies available that other players have. The thing is though, farming for gold takes so looooong. Why farm that gold, when some guy is spamming your chat channel "Buy Gold WoW! Cheap!" You could just run out, plunk down some RL coin, and you're flying around the outlands. Well I chose the amount of 5000 gold, since that is the amount required to buy an epic mount in the Burning Crusade. So here are four great reasons go go out and buy gold in WoW tonight:
1. Deal with shady companies selling grey market goods!
Who could resist this? I mean sure, it is against Blizzard's terms of service (TOS) to sell game property, including gold, and these companies have built an entire business doing just that. But why would you care about a companies ethics? You do? OK, well what if I told you that these companies may be located in any part of the world employing gold farmers in sweatshops for 14 to 18 hours a day making a couple hundred dollars a month, all so you could buy wow gold. Would that make you feel better about them? No? OK, well on to reason 2...
2. Buy gold in WoW that was raised by hacking, duping, and exploiting other players!
Well, not all of it was raised using hacks and exploits. A lot of their wow gold was raised using the gold farmers that I mentioned in reason 1. But these companies have been know to hack and exploit other players accounts using keyloggers and other creative methods. Once they get a hold of an account, they clean it out and get the original owner banned. People who buy wow character from powerleveling are especially vulnerable, although these companies have been known to exploit previous gold buying customers. But I'm sure your chance of getting scammed is pretty low, maybe. What? You don't want any chance at all of being scammed? Well, OK then... reason 3.
3. Wait for up to 48 hours to get your gold!
When you buy wow gold from one of these companies you could only have to wait 2 days to get your gold. So you don't want to wait that long? Reason 4...
4. Get your (or your parents) identity stolen!
So these shady companies (reason 1) may just end up hacking your account (reason 2), or they may be out to get your (or your parents) credit card number or even your identity! Who doesn't want their identity stolen right? Of course I suppose there are more efficient ways to get your identity stolen if you want to.
Well it seems I have done a better job convincing you not to buy wow gold rather than run out and get some. I mean, shelling out $207.34 for wow 500 gold (current price on my server from one company) to wait (maybe) 48 hours to (maybe) get my gold and (maybe) get scammed in the process doesn't sound like such a great deal after all. So I guess we're back to square one: playing the game right and getting the gold ourselves.