World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King Classic Server has a very outrageous mechanism, that is, players can create a level 55 DK account by recharging a monthly card without having a large account. The studio can create a large number of accounts at no cost. This mechanism has been abused around the world, and only the national server operator NetEase has restrictions on this. Under the premise that the Chinese server is about to close down, Goldsmith Studio has extended its goal to all servers around the world. No matter where players are, they have to face the harassment of the studio DK army. Players on the American server are also very annoyed by this. Some players even said that Blizzard does not handle the DK army because the studio's backend is too large.
This American player mentioned in the official website forum that he found that a large number of death knights appeared in the Dark Temple. These are all from studios in China. As the servers were closed, these people moved to new destinations: Asian servers and American servers. Moreover, these studios also use black cards to start unlimited accounts at zero cost. Blizzard can't even make money from monthly cards.
Many US server players have questions about this. Since there is such an obvious behavior of using scripts/plug-ins to gain money, why doesn’t Blizzard deal with it or ban accounts? An American server netizen mentioned: In fact, former US President Trump’s White House Chief Advisor Steve Bannon (Stephen K. Bannon) is a professional gold farmer. With such a powerful backstage, how can Blizzard dare to kill the studio?
A former consultant to the White House is actually the owner of a gold-making studio? This may seem like an April Fool's Day joke, but reality is often more outrageous than fiction. Steve Bannon is really the boss of Kingnon Studios and has been there for many years. The Washington Post specifically reported on this and dug up a lot of dirty information about Steve Bannon.
As early as 2005, Bannon became a banker at the Hong Kong Internet Gaming Entertainment Co., Ltd. Entertainment (referred to as IGE). The main job of this company is to provide services to game players. In fact, it is to sell virtual game currencies. Of course, their pattern is relatively high. IGE does not directly hire people to mine gold, but serves as an intermediary platform to acquire gold coins produced by small studios and then sell them to players in need. This company also opened branches in mainland China in the early years to carry out business, and even participated in chinajoy.
Of course, as a banker, Bannon cannot directly manage the gold mining platform business. His main job is to attract investment for the company. He has successively attracted a lot of investment from Goldman Sachs , Oak Investment, and Mavericks Fund, with a total amount of up to 60 million US dollars. How could Bannon do this? So much money, because he described a bright future for Wall Street bankers: This is a career for the future, and all the children who play games will need it.
Of course, no matter how much Bannon brags, Goldsmith Studio is a gray industry after all. Even with Bannon as the backend, Blizzard once blocked 30,000 accounts on the platform. IGE was losing an average of 1 million US dollars a month at this time. At this time, Bannon acted as a firefighter and directly became the company's CEO. From this perspective, Bannon has indeed been the boss of the world's largest and earliest studio.
After Bannon took office as CEO, he carried out large-scale reforms to IGE and turned it into Affinity, a game data service company. Media, the database website Wowhead and plug-in station WowInterface that are very familiar to World of Warcraft players are all subsidiaries of Affinity Media. Bannon also transformed into a media person through information services. After leaving office in 2011, he gradually integrated into Trump's circle and became a popular figure in the White House.
The above history also shows that the background of this wave of global DK army is not former White House consultant Bannon. He has been in the market for at least 10 years. This wave of DK army is caused by the termination of Blizzard and NetEase.
Of course, all World of Warcraft players did not expect that we have been playing WOW for more than ten years peacefully, and even had a small impact on the political situation of the Lighthouse Country.
