world of warcraft

Recent WoW patches from Blizzard have addressed some of the spamming issues presented by gold farmers, eager to foist their wares.

In a bizarre sort of spam arms race, the gold farmers have fought back - they're using client-side hacks to summon dead gnomes to fall from the sky.

They're then arranging the bodies to form adverts for their gold selling websites. Check out the screen shot from outside the Ironforge bank.

Gnome corpse advertising

Cheers,
TOM

If you play WoW and haven't heard of this, you need to check it out. Blizzard have made available something called The Armoury.

(Actually, it's called The Armory, but I'm not an American, and therefore can spell)

It can be found at http://armory.wow-europe.com/

Hooked into the game servers, it has real time data on characters, teams and Guilds.

It's pretty good - I can do a bit of Nat stalking:

http://armory.wow-europe.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Alonsus&n=Purefaith