{"id":9747,"date":"2011-01-31T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"wow-gold-sellers-face-paypal-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/9747-wow-gold-sellers-face-paypal-bans","title":{"rendered":"WoW gold sellers face PayPal bans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not just anyone can get PayPal to threaten their customers with permanent account suspensions. Of course, Blizzard is not just anyone, and with over 10 million people each spending around $15 (R105) per month to play World of Warcraft, the developer obviously has some serious clout with the world&rsquo;s number one unified payment gateway.<\/p>\n<p>The developer has successfully petitioned Paypal to issue notices to individuals identified as gold sellers, warning them that if they continue, their Paypal accounts will be irreversibly suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Gold selling is a disruptive practice which damages WoW&rsquo;s internal economy by messing up the supply-demand balance. It is also the number one cause of players having their accounts hacked. Once gaining access to a player&rsquo;s account, a gold farmer will sell all their items and mail the gold to one of their own characters, and then sell the gold to other players for real world currency.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more of a daily annoyance is the constant spam which players encounter from gold sellers.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this measure will not completely halt gold reselling, but it will at least make things tricky for the larger established names in the business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PayPal threatens to permanently suspend gold farmers&#039; accounts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}