The World of Warcraft Conspiracy...Subliminal Messaging & Blizzard gold spammers!, page 9
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reply posted on 13-1-2009 @ 01:26 PM by bandaidctrl
reply to post by saint4God


LOL that's great, haha, although everyone knows Alliance are bunch of babies anyway...

JUST KIDDING, some of the best pvpers I've ever played with were Alliance

Imagine the top 2 guilds on your server from Horde and Alliance going head to head in Halaa MASSIVE amounts of uber leetness

*sigh* I miss those days, everyone became so involved with the expansion coming out that they all lost their heads in they behinds....


reply posted on 13-1-2009 @ 02:12 PM by sir_chancealot
Originally posted by Griffo515
...But in a recent experience my friend had, He purchased around 10,000 gold (Roughly $2-300 AUD) but after buying it he was interrogated in-game by blizzard about where the gold came from, He did tell them...and it led to a 3day suspension, and the Salesman was left untouched! If blizzard become concerned about one person in game suddenly obtaining 10K...how much would the salesman and/or business have to have in stock to sell to the general population?? NONE! because its quite simple, it would cost Blizzard NOTHING to make the money...its all at the click of a button for them, and its FREE MONEY! Besides the $400,000 they make from game time per month they would also have an Unlimited amount of digital currency that they can sell to their subliminal addicted gamers.


[edit on 12-1-2009 by Griffo515]

You hit the nail on the head. The gold spammers AREN'T some "Chinese gold farmers", they are Blizzard employees. Are you telling me that they don't have automated processes to determine who is spamming trade to sell gold? And those accounts aren't immediately suspended?

BTW, read the terms of use VERY, VERY closely. It does NOT prohibit BUYING gold, merely SELLING gold. Your friend, should he desire to, has a very valid lawsuit on his hands.

Realize this: WoW is addictive not because of what they put in the game, but because of the genre itself. It was the same with Evercrack... I mean EverQuest.

People will quit playing WoW when something better comes along, as it always does.

Not everyone continues playing that game because they are "addicted". I play because of a group of people that I met in the game. We play together, and do lots of stuff together. While we play, we talk (literally, through voice chat) about religion, politics, government, current events, etc. In other words... we play a game while we are socializing.

That's why the Wii is the top selling console in the world. It allows people to socialize while they are playing.


reply posted on 13-1-2009 @ 02:45 PM by lee anoma
reply to post by neformore


I'm pretty much the same.
I'm a casual player but I do play and it is entertaining.

Blizzard gets about 14$ a month from me. That's not an amazing sum. Now I know that collectively they make a large amount but for the average individual, for myself, that 14$ is just disposable income. What other money are they receiving from me?

As far as gold selling goes...it's not allowed. It is against the rules. The people that do sell gold are not representatives of Blizzard and the profit they make is theirs alone. If they are caught in the act they are banned. Most people are afraid to buy gold because they fear having their account banned.

It does happen.

I know a person that paid for power-leveling and when Blizzard found out his character was DELETED. Straight up, I saw him again as a level one.

I know a person that sold their toon and that too is not allowed, but when he did Blizzard didn't come in and ask for a percentage. One guy I know sold his warlock for over 1k.

To me buying WoW toons and gold is silly. You just have to play. It's not necessary when you can make it yourself very easily, but I do know there are a bunch of rich kids in the game that get the cash from their folks. Hey it's their risk.

Blizzard doesn't profit from Gold selling, China does, since most gold sellers are from there. The guy I met from there that told me all about how it's done. It's his 9-5 job at an actual company for goodness sake. They walk around and watch to see if any of them are wasting time chatting or working on selling gold. He doesn't really like it, but hey...times are hard.

Also you are rewarded for not constantly playing because when you park your character at a "home" they are "rested" which makes leveling easier later on. It's better for some to friggin' log-off every now and then, because a full server means queue waits to simply play your character.

- Lee


reply posted on 13-1-2009 @ 02:59 PM by noonebutme
Originally posted by mastermind77
reply to post by Helig


Well do some research and im not coming from LA LA land on this. And im at the point where it is all connected by a singular form of conciousness being imposed from many angles. Which if true I can only assume that those imposing would diminish people like me who want to expose its fraudulent nature. But please mock the truth..and dont research anything with an open mind..


So, what you're suggesting, if I get this, is that there's a conspiracy by the Blizz guys, who are loading their number one game with subliminal messages (something ANY investigating ratings board, overseeing quality control or distributer would see during the QA of the game before release) instructing it's players to play it, spend money, use their credit cards, etc, via subliminal messages.

Now, all this is connected by a "singular form of consciousness being imposed from many angles", I'm assuming the Illuminaughty, yes?

And you're saying you're not from La-La Land???

Look, I am open-minded and am more than happy to be proven wrong as we only learn from our mistakes. But I listened to that vid of the death sequence. Bollocks that's subliminal messages. I've heard it before and it doesn't say anything like the words you imply.. unless you are so paranoid of the world around you that you want to hear them, if only to bring some form of meaning to your day... [shrug]


reply posted on 13-1-2009 @ 03:08 PM by ukuli
reply to post by Griffo515


Is this really important? Surely many media products have advertisements included in them.

The problem with World of Warcraft is that it is hugely addictive. I have a friend who has been wasting an incredible amount of time playing it.

I will not even try it. I don't want to get addicted. I managed to waste too many evenings with Grand Theft Auto and I really don't want to try a game that is even more addictive than GTA...



reply posted on 13-1-2009 @ 03:31 PM by Hamsterminator
Take it from me as a psychology student, subliminal messaging can go in the bag of things labelled "things people think are scary but really arent" along with hypnosis and mindreading.

Its the power of suggestion- not some sci-fi mind control, like brain washing people. Hollywood likes to make out that brainwashing and sleeper agents and subliminal messaging are far more effective than they really are. If you were to make a decision, with a 50/50 choice, then a subliminal message leading you down one path would likely sway you and control you in that respect.

If you are in a marriage or job or home situation that is being torn apart by excessive play- you arent being subliminally controlled, you are addicted.

I play wow on and off- this is because i know i am easily addicted to video games. When i get bored, i play. Same way as a fat person eats when they have nothing else to do. Blizzard do annoy me, in that everything they do these days comes from a marketing perspective designed to get maximum profit in the long run. It is after all a multi million dollar company. Their games are designed (as are all games in honesty) to be addictive so that you want more, and when you want more, you pay more. The only problem with blizzard is that they are brutally efficient at getting money out of you.

There are more complicated marketing methods at work than subliminal messaging. Ozzy ozbourne and william shatner advertising? Links to future content mentioned in the previous release of the game? Constant bits of lore being drip fed via websites about the wow universe? Even stupid things like making it dead easy to pay, but twice as hard to cancel your subscription. These are marketing techniques employed by all companies- you are only aware of it because you are most likely immersed in the WoW universe and so it is at the forefront of your experience.


reply posted on 13-1-2009 @ 04:36 PM by Byrd
Originally posted by Valhall
Byrd,

Have you got to run the purging of Stratholme yet? I'm telling you it is so sad. From a lore standpoint, this is the most dramatic scene they have put in the game so far. This is where Altarus loses it and decides to purge the city of all the infected prior to them turning to scourge and he is abandoned by ol' Uther and Lady Proudmoor. Then you go into the city and the saddest part of the deal is at the beginning because a lady walks up to him and says something about being glad he is there and she knows he will help them and he strikes her dead with his sword. From there it's just an all out slaughter of the citizens of the city. After this is when Altarus starts losing his mind over what he did to the citizens.

[edit on 1-13-2009 by Valhall]


No... I haven't got to run that one. Is it an instance or more of a solo thing like Undercity?

Man...that sounds like something where you'd just sit and be thoughtful for a long time after it. I watched "Undercity" to its end and felt somber and sad for poor Thrall and the sheer bloody inevitability of it all.

There's some things in the games, some quests I'm offered that I refuse and generally they're the ones that I'm ethically uncomfortable with. Yes, I know it's a game, but things like "The farmers of Hillsbarad need to be killed" that I Just Don't Do. If they were the ones raiding Tarren Mill, then yes I'd go waste 'em. But when an NPC with some sort of "kill them all because I said so" issue orders me to do it, I refuse.

Let me tell you... it was very hard to do the Death Knight starting area the first time around.


reply posted on 13-1-2009 @ 04:41 PM by mastermind77
reply to post by noonebutme


Deny Ignorance

Here are some links that support my views, I know if you already "cant" believe these obvious screaming 'facts' that are embedded everywhere then your blind or willingly not smart enough to see what im saying.

Or maybe you do and still laugh..

Basicly look into these websites.

www.thebravenewworldorder.blogspot.com...

www.rundonotwalk.blogspot.com...

and the one I posted earlier..

www.logo-opolis.blogspot.com...

Its no suprise that people dont even want to look deeper into the world around them, but I guess thats why they spend their days in front of a useless endless game to bilk the masses to fund secret projects like for instance..

mind control..perhaps..?

Im only stating these things because unlike many of you out there, I still have not cremated care at the bohemian grove alter of sacrificial loserdom.

At least I know I view the world with a proper eye.

BAHAHAHA
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