WoW character sells for nearly $10,000

by Ross Miller on Sep 17th 2007 4:45PM

A Rogue character in World of Warcraft with arguably the best gear in the game right now has been sold for 7,000 Euro (approximately US $9,700). The avatar had both Legendary swords dropped by raid boss Illidan Stormrage, as well as 4/5 of a Tier 6 armor set.

The original owner, Zeuzo from clan Method on Sylvanas server, has been sighted building up a new Rogue. When asked what one could do with $9,700, the Joystiq staffer offered these suggestions:

"Save it toward a house ... or Jet Ski!"
"Buy as many WoW account as I could, build that many new computers and multibox it!"
"A pool of pennies so that you can swim around in like Scrooge McDuck."
"Cybernetic Mongoose"
"I hear Russian mail-order brides are increasingly more reasonable ..."

The buyer, Shaks, currently resides on the Kazzak server but has not had any activity since September 3. Our sister site WoW Insider speculates that his account may have been banned, given the publicity of the auction and Blizzard's policy against selling accounts -- which would be truly sad for Shaks and truly hilarious for the rest of us (especially Zeuzo).

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Tags: blizzard, Mac, PC, worldofwarcraft, wow

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If the accounts both are closed and Zeuzo doesn't give Shaks the money back (which he shouldn't...it's Zeuzo's money now), then it would be probably the funniest thing that the MMO world has ever seen.

if they ban the buyer surely they will ban the seller too? There goes his new rogue...

"A pool of pennies..."

Sounds a little icky

WOW players have issues,stick to Guild wars LOL

I agree. Guild Wars ftw.

WOW = grindfest

I despised Guild Wars. Wasted a month of my life on the craptacular game.

If his account does get banned it would be funny to see if selling pimped out WoW accounts becomes a black market style business.

...wow this dude got pwnt...he could just go on a private server and get full T6 and Illidians Warglaives and any other epic thing he wanted for free. lmao pwnt. Syth - AniWoW private server

Not that I particularly condone the sale of the character for that much money, but your reference to getting it easy on a private server totally misses the point.

The character is "valuable" because it has something that required effort and time to achive. Sure, go to a private server and get all your legendaries and end-game epics given to you, but since *everyone* does that on a private server, its not an achivement, nor is it rare, or valuable.

Vegetta: "it"s over 9,000 !!"

Seriously though I would never spend that kind of money on something that I can't physically hold or touch.

Guess you wouldn't buy stocks..

Nope I don't buy stocks never had the desire to.

which part did you despise?

-The part where you don't need to kill boars for 30 hours just to get a decent sword?
-The part with the gorgeous graphics, animation, and sound?
-The part where there is actually a plot, and that your character actually matters?
-The part where you don't pay $150+ a year?
-The part where you still have a social life outside of your guild?
-The part where raids don't take 4 hours?
-The part where PVP victory is 100% skill and not who has the best armor?

Come on Ratchet, that meme died at least a hundred years ago...

Now keep 4chan out of Joystiq.

My opinion on the article though, this is just craziness. I do play WoW, however would not even think about spending any money on 'purchasing' a character. I don't sense any fun in that at all.

@ WiNG

In what part of my comment did I say I despised WoW? I don't, I have never even played it so I can't despise something that I have no experience with. I just think it's kinda sad that someone would spend that kind of money on a game no matter how much they love it. But to each their own I guess.

I think WiNG was talking about Guild Wars vs. WoW

probably a victim of the reply system

Yea I just noticed that sorry about that WiNG my fault.

LMAO, DBZ FTW !!!!

maybe he's that chinese kid that spit the bit over the weekend...?

I hope he gets banned,I'm sick of all that stuff like people paying to level up their characters,for rare items etc.

i didnt understand any of the beginning of that post

My post?

I think the character had some uber great items/weapons that are hard to get in the game. But that's just my uneducated guess since I've never played WoW

Jesus.
Some people need to re-prioritize.
You could buy a new decked out home theater rig for that. And even better?
It wouldn't be a virtual home theater rig that only works if you enchant it.

Being a pwnzord in a MMO=$9,700 USD
Being banned after spending almost $10,000 USD in a Videogame=Priceless

There are somethings money can't buy for everything else use Master Card.

Seriously why no one did the priceless reference before, I thought that was the first thing you people would do.

I knew it,that gamer fuel is poison for the brain.

I think it is because MasterCard hasn't used that advertisement in around two years, I think. They figured it was too annoying at this point.

You know how old is Dragon ball Z? and we keep saying (Something) IS OVER NINE THOUSAND.We still make quotes about stuf older than 2 years so that can't be the reason.

No one got my Dead Zone reference on the article about Dead Space D: cry.

Don't see me supporting DBZ. Hell, I was one of the first to call it crap anime that would destroy the image of the medium in the US if it ever got popular. As a mid-90s VHS fansub collector, I hated every ounce of it. The fact that it is STILL being referenced makes me sick.

I just cant belive people waste this kinda money.

Uh.. how much per hour does that come out to? A friend sold his character from DAOC for 100 bucks once.. And he'd spent about 5000 hours on it. Which came to 2 cents an hour.

Joystiq, do you plan on making a limit of how many comments a user can make for each post?

If not, you should.

OK I will shut up,Jeez just say it.

Must be nice to just throw around that kind of money.

I would spend my money on race cars, lasers, aeroplanes.

But you're not here in Duckburg, are you?

Maybe he can buy his first blowjob?

Best... comment... ever!

so true.

But... if it's in the news, doesn't Blizzard know about it? And if Blizzard knows about it, doesn't that mean that the account gets... deleted? Heh.

We should raise a glass to all the people stupid enough to buy online characters, and to those especially stupid who then tell everyone about it...

Wow Joystiq. Thats pretty cold. :-/

Man to broadcast the sale like this is silly I mean tell your friends fine but not the entire internet. I personally think its silly to spend that kind of money cause really as soon as The Frozen Throne comes out or even a few arena seasons come out it will be outdated. I suppose you could use that gear to stay ahead of the curve for a little bit but will this buyer have the skills needed to work with a raiding guild to keep it up? Only time will tell if they even have time to enjoy it that long.

What a complete tool and I feel dumber just knowing that people would pay that much for a game character....MORON!!!

And thus, Western Civilization crumbles as every person who reads this article will die from the non-stop laughter caused by this transaction.

Our Russian brides are 100% guaranteed not KGB spies!

LoL I'd buy that for a dollar

i have that statue of scrooge in my room! :)

If you play WoW, you should stick with a Russian mail-order bride. End of story.

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