- Jul 6, 2005
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Saw this on an EQ board:
Taken verbatim from the editorial page of PC Gamer no. 146, February's edition, written by Editor-in-Chief Greg Vederman...
"Secret wars. We all fight them occasinally. And just like when Dr. Doom fought the Beyonder and temporarily stole his powers, or when ****** continued to roundhouse kick his way through Vietnam well into the '80s, recently, the editors of PC Gamer have been embroiled in a secret battle of our very own. The enemy? MMO Gold Farmers.
Lately, "gold farming" companies such as IGE and Power Leveling --- companies whose business is the accumulation and (potentially illicit) real-world sale of virtual MMO property, including gold, in-game items, and characters --- have begun running ads in magazines like ours. For the record, PC Gamer's official stance on these types of companies is that they are despicable: not only do they brazenly break many MMO's End-User License Agreements, but they all-too-often ruin legitimate players' fun.
To put it mildly, we here at PCG are furious that these types of ads ever made it into the magazine. We know that their presence has upset you, too, because we've received, read, and sympathized with all of your emails saying so. Take this recent heartfelt letter from a reader who goes by the name "Rushlight" as a perfect example: "Lately, in my beloved World of Warcraft, I've had to put up with an influx of farmers. They've driven me out of the end-game areas, stolen my crafting nodes, undercut me at auction houses, and tricked in-game monsters into attacking me so that they can meet their quotas. The biggest ad-sposored WoW fan sites are bombarded with banners for gold and account sales. Even in-game, I get emails and whispers from spammers telling me the addresses of gold sellers. And now I crack open my new issue of PCG, only to be slapped in the face with even MORE gold ads? C'mon, guys! Have a heart for a poor besieged troll. Drop the gold advertisments, won't you please?
After months of behind-the-scenes talks with our sales department, I'm extremely proud to announce that starting with last month's issue, PC Gamer will no longer accept ads or ad dollars from Gold Farmers. Screw them. As a company we have agreed to turn down what literally amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual ad revenue so that you, as a reader, can game easy knowing we've got your back. I challenge my fellow PC gaming mags and websites to follow our path and to help us close down these bastard companies by attrition."
Taken verbatim from the editorial page of PC Gamer no. 146, February's edition, written by Editor-in-Chief Greg Vederman...
"Secret wars. We all fight them occasinally. And just like when Dr. Doom fought the Beyonder and temporarily stole his powers, or when ****** continued to roundhouse kick his way through Vietnam well into the '80s, recently, the editors of PC Gamer have been embroiled in a secret battle of our very own. The enemy? MMO Gold Farmers.
Lately, "gold farming" companies such as IGE and Power Leveling --- companies whose business is the accumulation and (potentially illicit) real-world sale of virtual MMO property, including gold, in-game items, and characters --- have begun running ads in magazines like ours. For the record, PC Gamer's official stance on these types of companies is that they are despicable: not only do they brazenly break many MMO's End-User License Agreements, but they all-too-often ruin legitimate players' fun.
To put it mildly, we here at PCG are furious that these types of ads ever made it into the magazine. We know that their presence has upset you, too, because we've received, read, and sympathized with all of your emails saying so. Take this recent heartfelt letter from a reader who goes by the name "Rushlight" as a perfect example: "Lately, in my beloved World of Warcraft, I've had to put up with an influx of farmers. They've driven me out of the end-game areas, stolen my crafting nodes, undercut me at auction houses, and tricked in-game monsters into attacking me so that they can meet their quotas. The biggest ad-sposored WoW fan sites are bombarded with banners for gold and account sales. Even in-game, I get emails and whispers from spammers telling me the addresses of gold sellers. And now I crack open my new issue of PCG, only to be slapped in the face with even MORE gold ads? C'mon, guys! Have a heart for a poor besieged troll. Drop the gold advertisments, won't you please?
After months of behind-the-scenes talks with our sales department, I'm extremely proud to announce that starting with last month's issue, PC Gamer will no longer accept ads or ad dollars from Gold Farmers. Screw them. As a company we have agreed to turn down what literally amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual ad revenue so that you, as a reader, can game easy knowing we've got your back. I challenge my fellow PC gaming mags and websites to follow our path and to help us close down these bastard companies by attrition."
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