To help preserve the gaming experience / integrity, Blizzard prohibits people from buying / selling gaming accounts. This guy was in that business anyways and faced some rather serious financial consequences.

I have found such gaming economics interesting. This guy putting some $$$ signs on his situation is fascinating (IMO)

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Albert Einstein

I cannot imagine a holy **** moment like that one. Hope he doesn't end up like maddoff. He looks like a nice guy.

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I don't think a business should be able to dictate the WAY people use their products in such a manner. If it's not hurting anyone, I don't think it's anyone's business if someone wants to buy an account instead of sitting in front of their computer for at least a good 80 solid hours of time doing horrible tedious upping your character, all just so you can get started on any sort of decent quest or to be able to explore any new areas. For me, RPG's are a complete and utter waste of time unless one CAN buy a character that's already pumped up. If I was to play WoW, and I had the money, I would buy an account that was already pumped up.

In one-player RPG's, I cheat and artificially pump up my character so I can actually enjoy the game.

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Do you cheat at solitaire as well??

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

Leftists and very small children don't seem to be able to understand that the Government isn't there to "fix" the economy, anymore than a tick is there to fix your dog.~Oftencold

I've never understood the gaming companies' issues with selling characters. But, that is their rule. Now, SOE allows for such things, but only on certain servers. Their approach is at least better than Blizzard's.

Regardless, I have no issues with people who buy gold, buy characters, use cheat codes, whatever. It's YOUR GAME. You're playing it to have a good time. And if doing those things makes the game fun for you, then fine. Why the **** should I care? I've bought gold before in WoW. And, I've used cheat codes in other single player games. I usually do so after I've played the game through a couple times already, OR when I'm really stuck in a certain place and the game has become less fun because of it. If my options are to stop playing the game because I'm not having fun, or to use a cheat code to get me out of a sticky spot... guess what I'm gonna do?

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To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors. ~ John Stuart Mill

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I don't play solitaire.

I cheat on games that I would have to spend weeks and weeks doing utterly useless tedious tasks just so I can *start* exploring new areas of the game.

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