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Servers Go Boom, 5 People are Surprised

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Goddamit, I was about to break into the Scarlet Monastery — a triumphant return, this time as a priest alt whose weapon and defense skills are at least 10 levels behind, thx powerlevel — and the servers start going down like a 5 dollar you-know-what.

Go figure. The weekend was quiet and relatively trouble-free; Monday night, everything goes to shit.

Unlike many of my fellow Warcraft players on the forums, I will not do any of the following:

1. Quit

2. Sue

3. Contact the Better Business Bureau

4. Call Blizzard on Tuesday, or

5. Post on the forums.

I’ll probably go do some work, but with a twist! If you know what I mean, and I think you do.

Still Looking for My Game Paycheck

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I was talking to a Warcraft guildmate a few days ago about this IGE thing and selling ingame items for real world cold, hard cash. My way of thinking … when I run the numbers, people are making five bucks or so an hour by selling game items and gold.

That’s just not for me. I could do actual work and impress my boss with my dedication and extra production AND make a helluva lot more than 5 an hour. And, there’s that little thing where you could be fucking over e-friends by selling game shit they could use themselves, but that’s Advanced Gaming Ethics 201.

If IGE “consultants” solo all the time, doesn’t seem like they’re screwing anyone other than themselves (5 an hour? *spit*) and a faceless corporation.

So I asked if he had ever ebayed game shit and, to my great surprise, he said he had in EQ, and if he was soloing in Warcraft, he’d do the same again. Now, we had been guildmates in EQ also, but towards the end of the EQ years, when most of us had moved on to other things, he had stayed behind and, as I know now, 2-boxed the hell out of the upper zones and IGE’d the plat. Paid for his new computer with his earnings, as he tells it.

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