At 10:33 EST this evening, in World of Warcraft, I received the following 'tell' (direct person-to-person message):
"Adifdkd whispers: Hi, pls visit www.itembay.ca The low Price: $8.99=100G, $16.99=200G $40.99=500G $75.99=1000G. First Come, First Serve."
This on a role-playing server, no less. While I think it may be a first (I've never experienced direct in-game advertisement unless it is sanctioned by the developer, and I haven't heard stories about it either), I can't imagine it is too hard to do, coding-wise.
I imagine by next week I will be getting messages from players named UrFr3ndslik3itt00 and B3tsee34D offering low-interest mortgages and rock-hard erections. For me, it's a moment of duh. Duh - of course game communications would become spam conduits. Of course.
Still, let's not forget that the toothpaste has been squeezed out of the tube by gold pharmers. First and foremost. Can anyone still deny that RMT, though innocent in its origins, at this scale becomes a serious pollutant of online games?
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