Gold Farming is NOT Farming for Gold, this is just one of the world of warcraft gold secrets that eludes the new players.
Some World of Warcraft players who are beginners to the game have been confused by the terms gold farming and farming for gold. When farming for gold, you are gathering items off of creatures you kill, mine, or gather, so you can make some in-game money from it. The way you make gold this way, is by selling, trading, or using the item for a component to make something altogether different. This is the best method for getting rich if you want to increase your crafting or gathering professions, while still making a respectable amount of gold.
Gold farming is when one is accumulating a lot of gold in game to try and sell that gold for actual money. They usually send “whispers” to low level characters in the hopes that these people will be new to the game, and not know this is an illegal practice that will get them banned permanently from WoW. Gold farmers don’t care about playing WoW, rather they wish to just make money off the greed or gullible players.
More players are now using AddOns that automatically filter these whispers out and report the violator directly to a Game Master (GM). Players can always use the “report spam” button to report this activity to a GM as well. There are also websites the farmers use to sell gold they have gotten in game. Doing this is a direct violation of the game’s terms of service, since all gear, loot, and currency belong to Blizzard.
Gold farming is illegal, puts unsuspecting new players at risk of being banned from the game and is looked down on as a greedy use for playing WoW by most gamers. Farming for gold is how you bring up your character’s profession skills, gets you able to buy better gear, mounts and companion pets. It keeps you in good standing with other players of World of Warcraft and won’t put you at risk of being forever banned from the game. Farming for gold…good. Gold farming…very, very bad.
