On July 14th the gavel of the Blizzard vs. MDY (Glider) fell in the 9th circuit court and since then it’s echo has reverberated across the blogosphere. But first a quick background summary:

Glider is a popular bot/macro program for World of Warcraft that essentially runs “glides” or small scripts that play World of Warcraft automatically. They have scripts to automatically level you up or to farm items/gold for you. You can setup a script to run while you sleep and wake up in the morning a few levels higher with backpacks full of items and some gold. It doesn’t perform any cheats or hacks that a normal player could not perform. It simply acts as if a human was playing the game (albeit a human with a low IQ, no job or outside responsibilities, and with a nasty cocaine habit).

Blizzard sued the creators of Glider for aiding in copyright infringement in an ongoing legal battle with the first decision just recently decided.

In the words of the creator of glider (Mercury):

“Well, the judge ruled today and it was not good for us. He found for Blizzard on the copyright and tortious claims. I must admit, I'm rather surprised at the scope of the decision, as it seems copyright holders can now pretty much declare anyone an infringer at the stroke of a pen.

But, hey, things will likely get more focused in the days ahead. For now, here's the judge's order. Be warned that it's pretty heavy on the legalese.”

Think oil prices are high? A massive covert banning by blizzard targeted at gold farmers has crippled their operations causing the price of World of Warcraft gold to skyrocket within the past week...

Every day crude oil seems to hit a new high. It is all over the media. Gas cost over $4/gallon throughout America and is even higher if you live in a major city. As such, this 4th of July weekend any traveling you do will obviously be kept to an economic minimum.

What’s one of the best ways to save gas money, limit your carbon emissions, and rescue the planet? Retreating into virtual reality and playing a healthy dose of World of Warcraft of course! 

However, the mainstream media in its attempt to cover the surging oil prices and the subsequent effects on the “real” world have missed an even greater crisis! The exchange rate of World of Warcraft US gold has doubled from $20 USD per 1,000 gold to $40 USD per 1,000 gold in a mere week! The mainstream media with its reality bias has completely ignored this story and once again it is up to the internet to restore justice to Azeroth.

Although it has taken a year for oil to double from $70 a barrel to $140



It has taken a mere five days for the price of gold to double from $20 per 1,000 gold to $40!

A major round of account bannings by blizzard targeted at virtual currency sellers of World of Wacraft gold has causen the price of gold to rise from $20/1,000 gold to nearly $40/1,000 gold in a matter of days. Previously a series of price wars along with an increase in supply (due to lack of bannings) droped the price of gold down to a mere $20.

Although Blizzard has not announced any of the account bannings, prices are expected to continue to rise until supplies stabalize and blizza...   Read more

We came across some pictures through a chinese website that covers the virtual currency market over there that had some interesting pictures of some large virtual currency companies headquarters over in china.

We thought we'd share them with you just so you get a better idea of exactly who you are dealing with:

IGXE Pictures

The Reception Desk (notice IGXE.com logo)

False advertising is prevalent throughout the virtual currency industry, but today I’d like to take the time to point out one particular outrageous example. The fairly popular virtual currency vendor wowmine.com bases its entire business on a single claim that they advertise everywhere.

“As Low As $5/1000 W0W Gold <5 Minute Delivery, US/EU On Sale”

They specialize in an automated vendor process where after placing an order you automatically receive a phone call and automatically confirm your order (fraud prevention). You can then log into your account on the website and click a button that says you are ready for your gold and they have a bot automatically log in and deliver the gold to you (note: you are told to be at a certain mailbox location before hand and have to be a certain distance from the bot, etc.). This is a really cool concept, although it only works when they have currency to delivery. It doesn’t matter how fast that automatic bot can log on or how few (costly) human resources it saves if they don’t have currency on stock to deliver to you. Here is wowmine’s big problem.

Wowmine is a Chinese company specializes in cheap currency. You can read our full review of them here. However, they are completely unable to keep an adequate stock of currency. As such the claim that they deliver in less than five minutes never happens. The surprising thing is on the website they tell you how much stock they have for every server (which they claim is updated hourly and 90% accurate). However in reality these numbers are 100% fictional and completely false. They mean nothing. They are intentionally engineered to deceive you. They also have a list of “average delivery times” that they allegedly update every 10 days. Simply looking at the data and our test results along with hundreds of customers claims quickly showed that this data was also doctored.

They went through a lot of trouble to be intentionally deceitful. Anyways, when I contacted wowmine’s live support about this matter after a bit of arguing I received the following response: