Wish Them Luck!

The site Virtuallyblind.com has posted an article about a court case that is going on. The case is a group of players against IGE, trying to get rid of the gold farming company from their servers. Check it out...

Plaintiffs' core claims read as if they come straight out of Richard Bartle's Pitfalls of Virtual Property. Plaintiffs allege that IGE, by running a gold farming operation, camping spawns, devaluing gold, spamming chat, and generally making gameplay less satisfying, has intentionally breached the World of Warcraft Terms of Use ("ToU") and End User License Agreement ("EULA"). IGE's employees must, of course, agree to the ToU and EULA in order to use World of Warcraft to accumulate and transfer WoW gold and other virtual property, and to level WoW accounts for sale. The complaint alleges that the plaintiffs were intended "third party beneficiaries" of the ToU and EULA between IGE and Blizzard, and suffered harm as a result of IGE's breach of these agreements. The amended complaint is here.

You an read the whole article here.