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Default [WOWGOLD] US Gamer Becomes First World of Warcraft Millionaire
Whilst America is suffering an economic downturn, gas prices rise day after day and the dollar weakens under pressure, one American is going against this trend; virtually. An avid Internet gamer from Chicago IL, known only as Jake, has made history by making the largest purchase of "virtual currency" ever reported. He did so through the game World of Warcraft, purchasing 1,000,000 Gold (the game's currency) at a cost of just over $40,000.

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Hope the few hours he spends with that gold was worth it, lol.
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I thought gold total was capped at 10k or something?

Must be through installments.
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wait, so he paid $40,000 irl for 1,000,000 gold? I'm not familiar with WOW so I'm a little lost.
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wait, so he paid $40,000 irl for 1,000,000 gold? I'm not familiar with WOW so I'm a little lost.
That's only the half of it, his account is probably banned by now, and all the gold already deleted.

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Someone's getting banned.

Most likely credit fraud anyways.
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Doesn't WoW ban accounts for buying gold? I'm sure it'll be easy for them to track down this guy's characters.
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That's only the half of it, his account is probably banned by now, and all the gold already deleted.

Great move!
So what was the point in wasting 40k of REAL money? moron
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lol if he doesn't get banned he will have to get multiple accounts to use it all, as the gold limit is 2^31.

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