Considers the trade of wow gold among players to be acceptable in-game behavior.
There is, of course, the conflict between the Alliance and the Horde, the cornerstone of the wow gold game's narrative that pits half of the almost 12 million WoW gold players against the other.But in a different battlefield, game developers and security researchers work to protect the world's largest massive multiplayer online gaming community from the growing ranks of hackers determined to plunder every last Troll and Night ElfExperts say the underground secondary market where hackers buy and sell stolen online gaming accounts, items and in-game currency has become a billion-dollar criminal industry. In hacker forums, a WoW gold character account can sell for as much as four times the value of a stolen credit card, said Steven Davis, chief executive officer of game security firm SecurePlay.Criminals make most of their money from hacking users' accounts and trading the stolen characters, equipment and "wow gold" - the game's currency - in hacker forums.WOW Gold can be obtained only by fulfilling quests or selling goods to other characters. While WoW gold's developer, Blizzard Entertainment, considers the trade of wow gold among players to be acceptable in-game behavior, criminals and dubious companies regularly sell stolen wow gold for real money. One thousand pieces of wow gold, for example, sell online for about $5. Experts say gamers who would prefer to spend some cash rather than spending long hours strengthening their stats are often willing to deal with hackers and pay big money for stolen high-level characters."Some people will pay for a shortcut to the game rather than spending seven months getting a character to level 70," Davis said. "A character that represents 100 hours of play can translate to hundreds if not thousands of dollars."The We Know guild - a group of WoW gold players that counts among its members many venture capitalists, CEOs and other individuals working for large tech firms like Google or security certificate vendor VeriSign - is very aware of the threats to players of the popular online game, said Josh Grochowski, a New Jersey computer science student responsible for the security of the guild. Many of the members have access to sensitive data relating to their companies and want to keep their information safe, he said.
