# World of Warcraft: Real life whoring for virtual gold **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 26, 2007, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566 "2007-05-26T02:10:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/1 "2007-05-26T02:10:46Z")
TerrorCotta found this on the Best of CraigsList, and I just had to share: > **[best of craigslist: An EPIC mount! (warcraft players look inside) - w4m](https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/nyc/308349637.html)** > [@](#): > > An EPIC mount! (warcraft players look inside) - w4m > Date: 2007-04-08, 8:07PM EDT > Hello I need 5000 world of gold for my epic flying mount. In return you can mount me. . . She has her own night elf costume - women, groups, anal considered … and it’s for sure she’s WAAAAAAY to into the game to be into any flesh people. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/2 "2007-05-26T02:16:56Z")
Can’t you just see her on a day-time talk show 5 years from now. “I couldn’t stop even though I wanted to. :cries: I was up to $5000 a week, sometimes more. I would sleep with anything and everything to feed my habit. It owned me :sobs:” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/3 "2007-05-26T02:45:00Z")
A girl who’s sexually attracted to guys with good video games skills? It’s either a prank profile or nerdvana. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/4 "2007-05-26T03:33:19Z")
I’ve heard about this before; supposedly on top of everything else, her particular character type will soon been able to get that epic mount for free, or so I’ve heard. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/5 "2007-05-26T03:45:16Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] I’ve heard about this before; supposedly on top of everything else, her particular character type will soon been able to get that epic mount for free, or so I’ve heard. [/QUOTE] Nah, druids still need to buy the epic mount skill to get their epic flight form. The actual mount is the cheap part. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/6 "2007-05-26T05:59:51Z")
Nerdvana indeed. Video game skills will finally get someone laid. Almost makes me wish I was a WoW player. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/7 "2007-05-26T11:31:15Z")
"Do it, Baby… FOR THE HORDE!" 😃😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/8 "2007-05-26T11:37:03Z")
I had to read the ad twice before I could tell what was mounting whom or where. Do they DO that in WoW? ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/9 "2007-05-26T11:44:37Z")
You need a lot less then 5000 gold to get an epic mount. Off the top of my head, I think it’s something like 2000 - and that’s assuming she doesn’t already have the next level down of riding skill. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/10 "2007-05-26T11:50:49Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] You need a lot less then 5000 gold to get an epic mount. Off the top of my head, I think it’s something like 2000 - and that’s assuming she doesn’t already have the next level down of riding skill. [/QUOTE] We’re talking epic flying mounts, which are right under 5000 gold for the riding skill. The non-flying mounts are more like 600-700 gold. But that’s so old school. ---
**Author:** ![Sweetums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sweetums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweetums)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/11 "2007-05-26T13:25:43Z")
The important question is, how does she look in her night elf costume? Are we talking a bikini with a few specks of glitter, or did she put some real effort into it? ``` If there's anything worse than cheap gaming whore, it's a cheap gaming whore in a costume that ruins the fantasy. ``` 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/12 "2007-05-26T13:42:49Z")
According to the hundreds of chinese farmers who so helpfully offer to sell me gold about 20 times a day 1k gold is worth about 80 bucks, so this chick is selling herself for about what an expensive high priced escort would ask. I think Ellen DeGeneres put it best when she said “we all want a prostitute, but we want them on their first day on the job”. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/13 "2007-05-26T13:43:02Z")
I was going to make a comment about the night elf women dancing like strippers anyway, but strippers are smart enough to get money from men without (often, depending on the area) even having to touch them very much. (Sen’Jin, Horde side) ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/14 "2007-05-26T13:52:43Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] "Do it, Baby… FOR THE HORDE!" 😃😃😃😃 [/QUOTE] No, she’s a Night Elf, not a Blood Elf. Anyway, I think FOR THE WHORE is more apropos anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/15 "2007-05-26T14:39:35Z")
[QUOTE=Athena] We’re talking epic flying mounts, which are right under 5000 gold for the riding skill. The non-flying mounts are more like 600-700 gold. But that’s so old school. [/QUOTE] Ah, I was thinking the wrong level. You’re right, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/16 "2007-05-26T15:22:19Z")
I’m pretty sure that I saw an article about not only the advertisement, but the girl posting that in fact she had found a buyer, gotten the money, had the sex, and was perfectly happy with the bargain and even sort of bragging about it. [http://buywowgold.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/3665b9e7fe1cc6b1549fbf1a5f88053b6a65.png](http://buywowgold.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/3665b9e7fe1cc6b1549fbf1a5f88053b6a65.png) Of course, the followup story might be a hoax, because it seems to add a picture to the original posting that I’m not sure was there to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/17 "2007-05-26T19:40:03Z")
Ummm… dude… NASTY. If I saw THAT show up at my apartment, I wouldn’t buzz her in, I’d call the cops. Or maybe Animal Control. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/18 "2007-05-26T21:02:16Z")
Yeah, that looks like…well, pretty much what I’d **expect** the sort of chick who would whore herself out for a video game to look like. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2007, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/19 "2007-05-27T01:46:47Z")
C’mon guys, she looks OK. When the Internet intersects with real life, any female that’s not a hairy, overweight, middle-aged bald guy in a dress is a huge win! (Adjusts bra.) So there! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2007, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566/20 "2007-05-27T02:00:47Z")
So that’s the “meatspace” I’ve been hearing about? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-of-warcraft-real-life-whoring-for-virtual-gold/405566.md?page=2)