bit grim
$100 a week for playing 12 hours a day....

What's US$100 equate to in China? My standard unit of measurement for international currency conversions is cans of coke. How many cans of coke would US$100 buy you in China?

interesting, but alot of the farmers are going to get pwned by the next wow patch

Whats in the next patch?

They're taking gold out of the game and replacing it with cheese, is what I heard

Cheddar or Swiss?

$100/wk in China? That's a bloody awesome wage, about twice the national average!

Alterac Swiss cheese I hope.

So what's gonna happen in the new patch? Should I buy some more gold before it comes out?

yeah i heard the avg wage in china is 42USD/month

so these guys are livin it up

what a pathetic game

so very sad.

With the upcoming Black Temple patch, we will be introducing new features aimed directly at reducing the amount of repetitive and unwanted whispers, chat text, and mail. Our goal with these new features is to not only increase the ease of reporting spam, but also to automatically restrict it. Following the implementation of these features, we will continue to monitor for chat and mail abuse and take further action as needed.

Here are some of the new spam-prevention features going into the new patch.

Reporting abilities:


* Players will now be able to report chat and mail spam with the click of a button. A "Report Spam" option will now be available by right-clicking on a player’s name in a chat channel, whisper, or mail. Using this option will quickly and easily report the player to our in-game support department for review.
* When you report a player, he or she will automatically be added to your ignore list for your current session. You won't see any chat or mail from that player until you log out and back in.
* These tools function on a per-account basis, meaning that reporting one character on an account will ignore all chat text and mail from that entire account until you log off.
* You will not be able to report players on your friends list or in your guild.


Message throttling:


* Players will no longer be able to send large amounts of text at one time, filling a chat screen with a repeating message, large blocks of gibberish, or text that could disrupt an entire conversation. This throttling, along with the new chat-reporting feature should make it much easier to keep unwanted text off your screen before it becomes overwhelming.

also limits on trial accounts which the gold farmers use to spam and advertise

Trial account limits:
http://www.blizzard.com/support/wowbilling/?id=abl01925p
*A level cap of 20.
*A maximum of 10 gold.
*Trade skills are capped at 100 ranks.
*Inability to trade via the auction house, mailbox, or player-to-player.
*In-game chat channels will be unavailable.
*A limit on the number of tells that can be sent.
*Realms with login queues will give priority to customers with retail accounts.
*Will not be eligible for the Paid Character Transfer service.

Cool changes. One of my favourite part about online games is how they evolve to match problems like this; MMOs obviously have it better than other games because they get money all the time, whereas your traditional games there's little advantage (other than goodwill/PR/just doing the f***ing right thing) for publishers to keep patching games after they've already got your cashhh.

Should be interesting

100.00 USD = 767.900 CNY

Hey Boba,

Could I get a link to where it lists the actions taken against spam please? I can't see it anywhere on the patch notes page :(

Cheers,
Ges

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=102905050&sid=1

Awesome, thanks :D

Living costs in China

Shanghai: A can of Coco-Cola is 1.2 RMB in super market, but it is at least 5 RMB if you order the same thing in a restaurant.

So if USD$100 is 767 CNY/RMB then you can buy 639 cans of coke. I'm guessing it's around $1.50 a can these days so these lads are on AUD$958.50 worth of coke a week.

Edit: used month instead of week

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Cheddar or Swiss?

Old English

i dont understand the obsession with cheese on subs

oh come on, how the f*** can't you get old english on a sub

there is no other.

werd paveway, there ain't nothing like old english cheese on your sub.

how much wow gold does $100USD by?

In the Subway down here on the mall, they have a cheese which sure LOOKS like old english, but they call it Tasty. Its just.... odd.

Old english is tasty, even though it smells like puke.

my local subway just gets that s*** craft plastic cheese :/

WoW thread successfully turned into Subway and Coca Cola thread, mission accomplished!

a WinRAR is us!

I prefer pepsi Max

coke zero or jump off a cliff

coke zero or jump off a cliff

The whole point of drinking Coke is that it tastes like Coke. What's the point in drinking Coke Zero when it doesn't taste like Coke?

it tastes like coke, and you don't get the bad teeth or gut rot

how much wow gold does $100USD by?

The place I go thru is selling 900G for $85 US and 1000G for about $105 US. It's been cheap lately since the expansion came out which is good.

i drink coke zero but whenever i drink real coke i realise how much i hate coke zero

Coke zero does not taste like coke!

it tastes like coke, and you don't get the bad teeth or gut rot

Are you sure? Is this sugar replacement so chemically superior that it doesn't cause these problems?

I have a feeling no.

sugar causes teeth decay and artificial sweetener doesn't.

I don't know what he is going on about with 'gut rot' though.

listen up weeners, yor still drinking softdrink, its s*** for you
signed
water lover