RE: Blizzard designed WoW to be a farmers heaven

@ Michael Miller::I'm assuming you mean BOP rather than BOE right?

(for those that care ,BOE=Bind on equip,BOP=Bind on Pickup, i.e. that when you kill an Orc or whatever and loot it's corpse , that the "Mace of Badger smiting" you get can only be used by you , and can't be sold on to another player.An in game shop keeper will give you a few pennies for it though).

I'm a W.o.W. player (I have a life though , honest!).

There is a crazy amount of Bots/gold farming/gold selling going on in-game.

Following gold farming bots around is quite interesting for a while .Very easy to spot too ,They're nearly always one class:Hunter, they've always got the same pet : a boar , usually given the imaginative name: :"Boar", and you can see the AI "working" as they run into walls/trees/rocks etc , and turn in the opposite direction and run back.

They're very easy to kill too , which is fun for a little while.

For anyone still reading this and who actually wants to see one , there's a series of movies on youtube called "Chronicles of the Goldfarmer " which features a player following them (bots) around.

The 20 odd whispers you get from goldselling bots (usually "buy gold from site blah blah")when you log in though IS annoying though.

Blizzard have recently implemented a low tech "grass up a goldseller" function (My words not theirs) which allows users to flag other players as goldsellers and get them banned.Its open to abuse though , so expect the "World of Warcraft"

population to plummet , as 14 year old players get all their mates banned.For a laugh.