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This picture, available in greater detail here, comes to us from Sid on Proudmoore.
Apparently, a certain gold seller got creative when trying to figure out ways to advertise past Blizzard's spam filter. The gold farmers created hundreds of identical level 1 gnomes, postion-hacked them into mid-air, and let them fall to certain doom in a way that spelled out the web address of their gold-selling site, which I'm not going to name here because I don't want anyone to get keylogged or anything. Looks like they've lost part of their "W", though. Players on Arthas, Frostmane and Eitrigg have reported the same tactic by different companies.
This makes me kind of glad I'm Horde, because I can't see anyone finding enough flat ground in Orgrimmar to do this successfully. I also have to give credit to the gold sellers for trying way, way too hard on this one. Taking the time to make all the level 1 gnomes, hack them into midair, and then arrange your company's name for ... what? Is there anyone out there who actually sees gold selling advertisements and goes, "Gee, buying gold. I never thought of that before, but now I will visit your lovely web site. Thanks, Jmhmltcawf/random dead gnomes!"
What's next? Raids made of gnomes whose names, read in conjunction, make up an advertisement, kind of like those old Burma Shave signs?
Thanks for the tip, Sid!
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7-04-2007 @ 9:54AM
Evil Sheep said...
"Gee, buying gold. I never thought of that before, but now I will visit your lovely web site. Thanks, Jmhmltcawf/random dead gnomes!"
*chuckle*
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7-04-2007 @ 10:21AM
Shesra said...
we had that on Elune last night too!
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7-04-2007 @ 10:32AM
Jibreille said...
Eldre'thalas too.
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7-04-2007 @ 10:49AM
runako said...
"Taking the time to make all the level 1 gnomes, hack them into midair, and then arrange your company's name for ... what?"
The answer is in the question, surely?
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7-04-2007 @ 10:54AM
Smutcakes said...
"Gee, buying gold. I never thought of that before, but now I will visit your lovely web site. Thanks, Jmhmltcawf/random dead gnomes!"
why do companies advertise cereal on TV? Because it works. I trust that giant banners made from dead gnomes work just as well.
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7-04-2007 @ 11:00AM
RogueJedi86 said...
I guess the real question is: do goldspam ads work? If only we could get a poll from actual goldbuyers/powerlevelers, to find out what clued them in to the companies.
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7-04-2007 @ 11:01AM
Pingmeister said...
In Barrens chat yesterday we had some low level guy say "You can buy Gold? Where?"
Ol' Barnum was right.
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7-04-2007 @ 11:02AM
Oldbear said...
Sure beats in game whispers...
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7-04-2007 @ 11:02AM
Rich said...
Have to give them props for creativity... LOL
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7-04-2007 @ 11:30AM
Baluki said...
It would probably work a lot better if it was actually legible.
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7-04-2007 @ 11:30AM
Nails said...
that is incredibly awesome
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7-04-2007 @ 11:40AM
Roxor said...
Right after reading this I logged into BDF's IF and found it there too. It was like looking out my window to see the car chase I'd been watching on TV.
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7-04-2007 @ 12:00PM
Noroth said...
This was on Firetree as well, but Ironforge was still so populated the gnomes were slow to getting into place and disappeared too quickly to get the whole address. They kept trying and at one point made "wmine.com", "w w" later, and finally "i", before giving up.
It was actually pretty amusing to watch all those little gnomes rain in. I think we now need a holiday of gathering gnomes and dropping them off zeppelins en masse. >.>
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7-04-2007 @ 12:29PM
robodex said...
Hakkar had half an "M" before they eliminated the problem.
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7-04-2007 @ 12:33PM
Rich said...
Now we know what the fireworks are really for... They are actually Gnome-Flak used to shot flying Gnomes out of the air!!!!!
Hurray for the Fire Festival and its copious use of fireworks!
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7-04-2007 @ 2:07PM
Cody said...
Hmm on Perenolde last night I wasn't in IF so I unno if they did that there. But in SW in the AH there was a lvl 1 Human bot walking around spewing crap about this site and it was obviuous it was a bot cuz it was walking into a corner for like 10 minutes at least haha. All I can say is at least its not a Whisper or a mass raid invite :)
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7-04-2007 @ 3:13PM
Kyle said...
Happened on Sargeras last night as well.
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7-04-2007 @ 3:38PM
rick gregory said...
Yeah, this happened on Alleria too. Actually very funny if you were there as it happened - dozens of gnome death sounds, one every few seconds... and I say that as a gnome.
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7-04-2007 @ 5:21PM
kunukia said...
They did it ob Drenden also...
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7-04-2007 @ 7:14PM
Mel said...
It's Raining Gnomes! Hallelujah! - It's Raining Gnomes! Amen!
I'm gonna go out to run and let myself get
Absolutely soaking wet!
It's Raining Gnomes! Hallelujah!
It's Raining Gnomes! Every Specimen!
Nice, pink, imba and mean
Just as cute as a fairy queen!
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