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Kuikorosu
07-13-2005, 02:52 AM
A good read: http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3141815
Isildur
07-13-2005, 04:55 AM
> A good read: http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3141815
>

It's really, really, really pathetic that there's a market for this.
MasterHD
07-13-2005, 05:08 AM
> It's really, really, really pathetic that there's a market
> for this.

"I'm addicted to the game! My wife left me because of it. Can I buy some WOW gold for this $2000 wedding ring?"
Kuikorosu
07-13-2005, 01:40 PM
> > A good read: http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3141815
> >
>
> It's really, really, really pathetic that there's a market
> for this.

Yeah, but what a market.

"Smooth Criminal's game cartel made $1.5 million from Star Wars Galaxies alone last year, and individually, he's made as much as $700,000 in a single year. "[SWG] built my new house, which I paid for in cash," he says. "So when you ring my doorbell, it plays the Star Wars music."
JCE3000GT
07-14-2005, 12:41 AM
> A good read: http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3141815

Wow, great read. So they're using bots to make all this money...I didn't make shit writing a simple bot for Ragnarok Online...I should of sold my millions for cash. <img src=smilies/magbiggrin.gif>
CEpeep
07-14-2005, 12:44 AM
> Wow, great read. So they're using bots to make all this
> money...I didn't make shit writing a simple bot for Ragnarok
> Online...I should of sold my millions for cash.
>

Yes. Then you could have given it to me.
JCE3000GT
07-14-2005, 01:20 AM
> Yes. Then you could have given it to me.

Then we could be teh millionaires and have all the Japanese girls/food/games/cars/electronics we could ever want.