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A woman posted an ad on Craigslist, offering a certain something for some quick cash in her game of choice, WoW. And she got what she wanted.
Someone at the Pointless Waste of Time forums posted links to the beginning and the end of the tale. The story goes as follows. An anonymous female WoW player, wanting to get her Epic Mount (in more ways than one, haw haw), put up an ad on Craigslist, including her picture and her offer.
The offer? 5,000 gold for the chance to have sex with her. And not surprisingly, someone took her up on it and apparently made her a very satisfied customer. This raises a number of questions.
First of all, is this prostitution? Sure seems like it, although MMO money isn't entirely established as legally worth real money yet, even if people buy and sell it all the time. Which leads to the second question: can she be arrested for this? This one small, funny incident marks an interesting point in the emerging virtual life that will one day be integral to everyone's day-to-day activities.
Was it good for you?
We've already got real life crimes motivated by virtual interactions. Will virtual crimes one day be treated like real crimes? Particularly with WoW gold approaching equality with real dollars, won't the theft and manufacturing of it become a problem? As the saying goes, "Time is money," and this woman has shown that. She didn't want to waste tons of time farming gold to get her Epic Mount, so she provided a service to get it
.Is it a sad state of affairs if a woman is willing to prostitute herself for the ability to have more fun in a videogame, or is it merely a natural progression of the real world bleeding into the virtual one?
Hey, thanks: Pointlesswasteoftime
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Posted at: 04/13/07 at 12:40 PM PST
Genius. Instead of Gold Farming.... Gold Mounting. It's bartering, not prostitution.
Posted at: 04/14/07 at 9:40 PM PST
Ewwwww.... This is the craziest thing I ever heard. Some people invest way too much time into WoW.
Posted at: 04/16/07 at 11:54 AM PST
WoW gold FTW for the loser that took her up on it though, for sure... I wonder if they both cried out "wOOt!" at the end.
Posted at: 04/16/07 at 12:01 PM PST
i'm almost there! oh rly? yes rly, srsly! k done, afk, brb geek dick lfg
Posted at: 04/16/07 at 1:17 PM PST
Haha, how interesting. I've known many people that meet on WoW and get it on, I was almost one of those people... hah *cough*. Really is how many surprisingly hot priests / hunters there are running around. LOL
Posted at: 04/18/07 at 11:20 AM PST
Well, I know on my server, there were players with night elves offering to take their toons clothes off and dance if other players tipped 'em. I'm no longer surprised at what people will do ingame.
Posted at: 04/18/07 at 4:51 PM PST
well all i know is she shoul be arrested and banned from the WoW network.
Posted at: 07/24/07 at 3:16 AM PST
There is nothing wrong with what she did, You wouldn't believe the amount of cock I had to suck to get where I am at on The Wheel of Time game. btw anyone have any Travian resources they can send me?
Posted at: 07/24/07 at 4:34 AM PST
What is the world coming to? I bet that stp she could possibly contracted isn't virtual.
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