WoW Gold Facts

Hey kiddies, I finally nailed an interview schedule with an RMT biggie. It’s scheduled for 7:30 PM PST and hell, I should get some sleep now, just finished 25-man VOA where…

I effing disconnected 8 times.

Seriously, what the hell is up with this patch? I can’t run 25-mans without disconnecting repeatedly. It’s been a nightmare for tanks like Cletus who can’t tank and just run in place…and the next thing he sees is the heals are dead and the DPS are all DPS’ing away screaming to their deaths as Lord Marrowgar aims for their asses. Worst ICC run in history, he says. That’s putting it mildly!

"I have disabled all addons. I don’t even get on vent anymore since I know the fight. WoW is the only thing running and yet my latency still spikes to 2K. I am the laughing stock in Trade chat," he wailed before (probably) killing himself.

Please, Blizz, do something. The game has become unplayable since the patch dropped. I don’t know who to blame really.



Hmm, on second thought…

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Extreme Gold Fan:  Okay, Rachel, let’s jog your memory. Before your account got hacked, did you visit any funky, dubious sites?

Rachel: Um, there was this spammer that kept whispering about a unicorn zebra…

EGF:  Ah yes, the deathless unicorn zebra mount.

Rachel:  I knew it was a scam but I did check out the site very quickly. I looked at the home page and closed the browser tab after 3 seconds.

EGF: Hmm, what site was this?

Rachel: Let me check my notes.

EGF: You are aware that visiting the spammer’s home page, even staying there for 3 seconds already opens you up to a keylogging attack.

Rachel: I know but I have anti-virus software…

EGF: That’s not gonna block dem keyloggers…

Rachel:  I know, I know, okay, geez so I was stupid..

EGF: Not calling you stupid. Just saying that…

Rachel: Ah yes, here it is. The site was battle hyphen armory dot net.  (EGF’s note: GUYS DO NOT GO TO THIS SITE)

EGF:  Okay, that’s our first suspect. Any other site you recall visiting?

Rachel:  (sighs)  Yeah, there’s W W W dot blizzard dot gamehrs dot com.  (EGF’s note: GUYS DO NOT GO TO THIS SITE)

EGF:  WTF. Another unicorn zebra offer?

Rachel:  No, no, it was something about the WoW network being broken…

EGF:  ROFL. Broken WoW network? WTF is that?

Rachel:  Here’s the screenshot. "Dear players, because the network of World of Warcraft had broken off, Blizzard decided to give each player certain compensation. Please visit: (www.blizzard.game24hrs.com) (EGF’s note: GUYS DO NOT GO TO THIS SITE) and receive compensation for goods."

EGF:  Compensation, my ass.

Rachel:  And that’s it. Then I made some test orders.

EGF: Test orders, right. All orders sent to my account, not your account.

Rachel:  Correct.

EGF: And you ordered from which sites?

Rachel:  (flipping through her notes)  Um…

EGF:  Take your time but hurry up.

Rachel:  Susan Express…

EGF:  Ha!

Rachel:  Goldrocku dot com, Inwowgold dot com, Goldsales4u dot com, and THIGE dot com.

EGF:  Okay so that’s Susan Express and Goldrocku dot com and Inwowgold dot com and Goldsales4u dot com and…what? THIGE? Is that like a sister site of IGE ?

Rachel:  No. THIGE is different. It’s owned by a Chinese group and the company name on PayPal is SMGP Co. Ltd.

EGF:  I see. So again, prior to getting hacked, those were the sites you visited and ordered from.

Rachel: Uh huh.

EGF: I didn’t even get all of the gold orders on time. They all sucked.

Rachel: I know.

EGF:  Hell they didn’t even give you your damn uinicorn zebra.

Rachel:  I know. I would have wanted one. I was just one mount away from achieving Mountain o’ Mounts .

EGF:  Well, they f*cked up your account.

Rachel:  I know. I miss my shammy.

EGF: I miss her too.

Rachel: So whacha gonna tell your readers?

EGF: The usual. Report in-game spam. Don’t believe in the free mount hook. Learn from your tragedy. AND avoid the aforementioned sites. Because you just don’t know which one of them hacked your account so just to be on the safe side, don’t visit them, don’t buy from them. Period.

Rachel:  You’re a good man, bud.

EGF:  I know.

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Servers just went down. Must go to sleep…

But before I do, let me show you something that still haunts Rachel to this day. This is probably one of the most traumatic things that can happen to a WoW player:

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Yup. That’s what happens when a hacker invades your account and uses it to farm crap and deliver their crap.

List of (the usual) suspects coming soon.

In the meantime, let’s use this realm downtime to do the things we forget to do six days a week.

Like taking a shower, perhaps?

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Too many unbelievable things have happened the last 3 weeks — mostly bad stuff — that I don’t even know where to begin. But I’d like to take  a break from the negativity and focus on a few positive things before I resume my not-so-kinder-and-gentler demeanor.

First thing on the list: I am going to do  a good deed by buying Rachel a new WoW account, expansions and all, and along with the rest of our guild, I am going to help her level those toons till they’re fit to raid with us. It’s the least I can do after she lost her account to some evil hacker who deserves to be stuffed into a blender and fed to wild boars.

Now along with the promise to level those new toons as fast as possible, I am going to provide each character frostweave bags and seven additional bank slots.

Yeah I know, it’s a big-ass promise that’s going to cost me a fortune in WoW gold but good thing prior to St. Patrick’s Day almost every gold seller known to man jumped on the promotional discount band wagon. The best value for this cheapskate appears to be the one offered by WoW Gold Pig, who — get this — is offering 25% bonus gold on top of your order.



25% bonus gold. Rachel, your new toons are off to a good start. Hell, I’ll even get you starter mats when your toons acquire professions.

And in other good news: people on all my realms are learning to report Trade chat scammers and announcing to all and sundry the sort of whispers they received to warn other players. Like take the dumbass who whispered earlier  that Blizzard is "to launch Free Unicorn Zebra, Get Now log in: http: // battle-armory dot net"  (do not go to that site!!! - EGF) .  Bastard got roasted on Trade chat — the kindest comment being "Why do those retarded scammers keep using the ‘Unicorn Zebra" scam? Only a definite idiot would fall for the name alone." Keep slaughtering them, kiddies!!!

And of course, buy WoW gold only from the most reputable sites. KEEP YOUR WOW ACCOUNTS SAFE!!!

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I am reposting parts of my MySpace blog which I published several hours earlier. Before I write a full tirade post, I need to get more details and help jog Rachel’s memory as to what she could have done that got her into that nightmare. I’m also too angry now to think and write straight.

HACKED. THEN BANNED. WTF.

Kids, I am still alive. Just been really ill then busy with a million things.

I have bad news:

My friend and guildie Rachel, the latest member of my WoW Gold Facts team, lost her account to a hacker. And while she managed to get her account back, she lost a lot of her beloved toons, including her super duper mega elite shammy who served as our raid healer.

The thief (or thieves) got all her frost emblems, vendored her epics, sold a lot of her frozen orbs at the AH, then deleted many of her toons….basically did everything to drive her insane.

And I feel really guilty.

Why?

Because her working for my site entails exposing her account to all sorts of potential risks. Risks I was willing to take because I have four WoW accounts and even if one of them got hacked or banned, I still have the three accounts where I keep my uber leet toons.

What happened was Rachel noticed that her password had been changed. She did a password retrieval, but it was too late. She got an email notification from Blizz saying how she was exploiting the economy.

That was bullshit. The last several test orders we made for WGF were all sent to my accounts.

However, Rachel did admit to chatting with a few gold spammers in the game, trying to extract certain info from them, and even checking out their sites plus this one site where one can ostensibly get a freebie in connection with the new patch.

Only one word comes to mind: keyloggers.

I’m going to write that much promised post about Rachel’s experience. In the meantime, why don’t you read this very interesting article in WoW.com about this hypothetical scenario where Blizz sells gold to keep the Chinese gold sellers at bay . Food for thought, kids. Food for thought.

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Cough, cough, wheeze.

Guys I am still alive. Just sick. Very sick. Even Rachel, the latest member of the WoW Gold Facts team, is sick no thanks to me. Cletus has been infected and his voice over the phone was so hoarse and phlegm-riddled I thought he was going to die on me. Remus is somewhere in South America with his parents. I hate him. How dare he go on vacation and flirt with pretty Latina women while we’re all suffering from a plague.

I will be back. I have been so busy AND sick at the same time, I’m starting to suspect someone up there hates me.

Stanley (you know who you are), thanks for your email, man.  Yeah I checked out the site and saw my medal plastered on their landing page. Someone needs to die ASAP!

But first I need to get healthy again.

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