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Gold farmers get creative about advertisingJuly 4th, 2007 |
Kerri Knight writes,
Using the age-old client-side memory hack, or ‘teleport hack’, gold spammers have reached a new low (albeit a creative one). Using the exploit, they caused level 1 gnomes to rain from the sky in Ironforge near the bank and auction house (typically the most frequented area on a server). The bodies died upon impact and remained in the world, after a short time it became clear they were dropping in a such a way as to spell out the name of a gold-selling website. I’ve not been able to locate any news of the incident (its late, and tomorrow…err today, is a holiday). So I can only leave you with a Blue response to the issue on the CS forum for verification. (see link below) May have been inspired by this amusing comic. Oh, and Happy Independence Day! :9

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Life, the ratio and effectiveness of marketing communication is way better in WoW than in SL.” – Stupid quote of the morning, noticed in Are Marketers Dying on Second Life? So – marketing in WoW – how does that work then? Are we talking aboutgnome dropping?
[Clickable Culture's Atom feed is intended for your personal, non-commercial use.] The skies of Azeroth rained gnomes today, but none survived the impact,according to a reader of Raph Koster’s blog. The gnomes left behind corpses arranged to spell out the name of a web site dealing in virtual gold sales–an effective means of advertising third-party services Blizzard (creator of the Azeroth setting) is firmly against, allegedly carried out using
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