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Gold for cash: The trend of buying and selling online video game currency 9 Articles

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    by James John Bell

    Every day around the world over 100 million people enter a completely different universe. I'm not talking about alien abduction, and this isn't a dream, some of these people are spending more awake time in these alien univ...read more

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    by Liam Mitchell

    Recently, video gaming company Jagex, who maintain the online MMORPG (massively multiplayer online roleplaying game) Runescape, introduced a series of intensely controversial updates. These updates were all focused around ...read more

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    by Joseph Branch

    The trend of buying and selling online video gaming currency and virtual assets has been plaguing the MMORPG industry, (Massively Multiuser Online Role Playing Game, or MMO for short), for years now. In most any MMO played...read more

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    by Alexander Maaby

    With the massive growth in popularity MMORPG gaming has become the largest gaming scene there is. World of Warcraft alone has over 10 million players from around the world which is insane to think about really. Because of ...read more

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    by Anthony Rabideau

    Gold for Cash. An interesting concept if you think about it. About three years ago, I received a strange email. The subject line read, "GoldMine". That caught my attention. I read on: "Do you need gold for WoW? N...read more

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    by Cameron Byass

    I would hardly call this a trend, however many dishonest players are buying their way to the top with real money for virtual currency. The market for online currency is bigger than you or I think. It's a black market on...read more

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    by Ryan Dixon

    Buying game currency is a trend that is sweeping the online gaming communities across the globe. In every popular MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) there is some form of currency in the world in whi...read more

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    by Lori Hutcherson

    Buying game "gold" (or whatever the game currency is called within the game you're playing) is indeed ILLEGAL. It is against the Terms of Service that you agree to when you begin playing an online game. All items in game...read more

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    by Cody Worden

    quite a few sites sell gold online, and while the popularity of these games grow, so do the people who sell gold. you can find a site that sells gold for almost every single mmorpg now. the hard part is "where do they get ...read more

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