5 Reasons not to Buy Gold in World of Warcraft

I will in this article tell, in five points, things you should think about before you consider buying gold for World of Warcraft. Even if you don't consider buying gold, you can use the arguments here to people who do consider it.

The first thing you need to think about when you consider buying gold is what kind of market you are supporting. There have been reports in the media about people working for really crappy pay as ”gold farmers”. When you buy gold, you support a market that exploits it's workers.

The second thing you need to consider is your own reputation. You obviously play World of Warcraft and then you have obviously seen the annoying, spamming, gold sellers that hang around in the cities and that flood our trade chats with ”BUY CHEAP GOLD... bla bla bla”. Buying gold from these companies support them and hence will make them continue to make the cities horrible to be in. And since we established that you play WoW, you know how much people hate the gold sellers. Would you really like to be associated to buying gold then?

You have for certain heard about people getting hacked and lost their gear, gold and banked items. This is the third thing to consider. A lot of these hackings are done by gold sellers that, in one way or another, gets a keylogger onto peoples computers. With the keylogger in place, they just need to wait for the person to log in and they will get all the information they need to later log into that account and clear it out. They sell everthing they can to vendors and then transfer all the gold off the characters. If you buy gold, you support an industry that prey on other peoples spare time.

The forth thing to consider is that you will break the user agreement you have with Blizzard if you buy gold. What happens if they find out? You will get banned. Even if you are lucky enough to not get hacked after surfing the gold seller sites, you might end up getting caught by Blizzard and you will then have payed money for some gold that you will never have the chance to enjoy.

The fifth thing to consider might not be as convincing as the other points. So, you have your gold, you didn't get hacked, you didn't get banned and you payed quite good money for not too much gold. What do you do when you run out of gold? Do you buy more and more and more, and get caught in a bad cycle where you repeatedly risk any of the above points. The gold isn't going to last you long, and then you will be right back to where you started, but you will also have less money on your real life bank account.

Lets summarize this shall we. When buying gold, you risk losing money and gear with no gold to be had because you got hacked. You risk getting banned for buying gold. You play with your reputation among your peers with supporting somethings most of them hate the very thought of. You will support an industry that exploit the people working for them. You will spend real life money on a short term fix for your in-game economical problems and it might cause you to get stuck in a gold-buying-spiral.

I'm obviously a World of Warcraft player myself and I wish the gold seller industry didn't exist. I would never consider buying gold, but I do want to have a lot of it. Because of this, I started looking for strategies on how to make a lot of gold by myself. I had to search quite long and hard until I found what I needed, which was a guide by a guy who had the goal to become World of Warcraft's first millionaire.

I will wrap it up with saying, don't buy gold but learn to make the gold yourself, on a daily basis.