Wednesday, July 1, 2009

China Limits/Bans Use Of Virtual Currency



2 days ago Chinese government decided to limit the use of virtual currency. The law says that it’s forbidden to trade virtual currency for real money (i.e. selling WoW gold) with one exception: Only the game publisher is allowed to do such exchanges.

The official statement of the government is to limit online gambling. However, I personally doubt this is the true reason. Most of the gold farmers companies are not based in china, but are outside of china and they only have people from china do the farming itself. This way china won’t see much money from the gold farming (taxes etc.).

Imho there are two main reasons for this: Dugi's Ultimate World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King PvP and Leveling Guide

  • Chinese Government only wants (Chinese?) based companies to employ/sell virtual goods (so they can better regulate and get taxes from it)
  • The exclusion can also be an indication of the soon to be started Chinese virtual world in Entropia Universe (an as MMO camouflaged casino like online game) called CRD (Cyber Recreation Development Corp.). This news however is not new, there were already plans announced two years ago (Source: Redline China)

Original News can be found at InformationWeek.

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Yogg-Saron +0 (or –4) Hard-mode exploit – World of Warcraft



This is the exploit on how the guild called Exodus killed Yogg-Saron +0/-4 (Hard-mode with no guardians up aka Alone in the Darkness Achievement).

Update: Exodus got a 72 hours ban for exploiting this, as you can read on MMO-Champion: Yogg +0 World First Kill - Exodus Suspended 72H.

The Exodus exploitDugi's Ultimate World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King PvP and Leveling Guide

How it works:

  • Give a Holy Paladin Soulstone
  • Send in two Paladins (One Holy, other can have any spec) with the Soulstone in the Brain room. In addition 1 or 2 warlocks with Soulstone
  • When your are at the brain the Holy Paladin uses Divine Intervention; the Warlocks Hellfire themselves
    (Update: Before you flame: Divine Intervention doesn't work anymore, read on)
  • Dugi's Ultimate World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King PvP and Leveling GuideLet the Holy Paladin and the Warlocks wait until the Induce Madness channeling is over (You can see it in your Deadly Boss Mod (DBM) or BigWigs when he’s done with the channeling of the spell) and resurrect with Soulstone. (Druid’s Rebirth will also work)
  • The Holy Paladin has to buffs himself with Righteous Fury in order to gain 90% more agro and uses a Runic Mana Potion
  • Now the Holy Paladin has to spam heal on the Life Taping Warlocks , the immortal guardians will agro him (the Holy Paladin) and go in evade modus because they can’t reach him
  • The damage dealers outside can just focuses their dps on Yogg-Saron until he’s down.

The second exploit

The second exploit works as following:

I have done YS 0 legit kill, but there is an exploit around that requires minimum effort. The method OP posted is FIXED, the way that people expect Exodus did it was that they had a tank taunting the adds. What the tank does then when he has agro is to run in and melee Yogg Saron. This will cause a Knockback which bugs up the adds and you get an "Evade". What happens then is that the adds "falls" through the ground, thus despawn. This means that a tank can get rid of all the adds, and every dps can focus on YS. The only issue here is that the tank has to take an initial hit or two, but this essentially makes P3 as easy as an old tank and spank Molten Core encounter. This method is extremely easy and worked as of 28/6-2009. I don't encourage you to do it though, since Blizzard is probably going to ban people hard for this.

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