Gold sellers sued!

[Gorion]

Anyone playing WoW will get a bell ringing at the phrase "Peons4hire".

The endless in game whispers, mail, and General / Trade channels spams were getting unbearable, offering to buy gold and to power level your characters.

Well now it's no more!

Blizzard recently filed a federal lawsuit against Peons4hire, a popular gold-selling company. The operators of the organization have been asked to immediately cease all in-game spamming efforts by all entities and websites under their control.

Quoting from the official Blizzard forums:

« As many of you know, the latest content patch, along with many great new content additions, contains technical counter-measures designed to combat in-game gold spamming. Our efforts to reduce in-game abuse and create a fun, safe environment for everyone are never-ending.

With that said, we felt that it was important to share with the community just how serious we are in our efforts to combat this type of abuse. Blizzard has filed a federal lawsuit against the operators of Peons4hire, a popular gold-selling organization which many of you have no doubt seen advertised. As part of the lawsuit, the operators of Peons4hire have been asked to immediately cease all in-game spamming efforts by all entities and websites under their control.

If this organization refuses to act accordingly, further legal action will be taken. We'll be sure to keep you posted on the progress of this topic. »

This may sound like the usual idle chit-chat yada yada yada .. but to everyone's surprise, the amount of whispers and spam has really gone down. You can now actually quest / instance / raid in peace without having to add someone to your ignore list every 5 mins.

[Bastet]

Good news, allthough spammers will probably find ways arround the system eventualy. Enjoying it while it lasts though

[Bob]

This may sound like the usual idle chit-chat yada yada yada .. but to everyone's surprise, the amount of whispers and spam has really gone down. You can now actually quest / instance / raid in peace without having to add someone to your ignore list every 5 mins.

The reason for the decrease in those numerous whispers ain't that Blizz has made that lawsuit - since the patch, those on a trail account can not whisper people other than those on their friends lists, taking away the main source for gold spam.

Good they finally took this thing serious - can't figure why it took them so bloody long implementing something this simple...

[Adularena]

But...now I dont get any whispers anymore:crying: from anyone at all...

[Bob]

He he, poor Addy - somebody looses in every situation :nevermind:

[saori]

If you feel sad i can whisper you to your ear... (some nasty things of those you like! crazy norwish-japan young and dirty devil!! )

[spiritus]

If you feel sad i can whisper you to your ear... (some nasty things of those you like! crazy norwish-japan young and dirty devil!! )

LOL!! :lmfao:
you almost made me fall off my chair at my desk.. aiaiai..
and i can also whisper you tonedef songs on TS :woot2:  so addy, don't worry be happy :flirty:

[Sheperdbook]

Gold sellers should be drowned in molten gold, where's Goldfinger when you need him?

Hmmm, as for Addy, I think I'm just going to try and forget about that...