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High Risk of Powerleveling Services by Christina Gilmore
Paid powerleveling is a service where a person (typically from China) is paid to level up a virtual character in games such as World of Warcraft. The customer gives the company or individual the user name nad password to the account, and after a period of time the account is returned to the customer when the level is reached.
Powerleveling has been viewed with some controversy in the past, some claiming it to be almost as bad as gold farming. Angry gamers have claimed that powerleveling brings in "newbies" with high level characters who were ineffective and unable to play their characters well.Regardless, the industry has been growing, with more and more providers offering these paid powerleveling services. Many powerleveling services operate out of China, where the cost of labor is exceedingly low.
Blizzard Entertainment, developer of the highly-acclaimed World of Warcraft MMORPG which has more than 8 million subscribers, banned 100,000 accounts suspected of powerleveling within the game. This number also includes suspected gold farmers. Blizzard is able to easily track this kind of activity by looking at the IP, since most powerleveling companies are China.
One website, powerlevelingsucks.com, has a forum where users can discuss and share their stories about websites that have cheated them or caused their accounts to be banned.Most of these powerleveling companies are unscrupulous, or unwilling to resolve complaints after and account is banned. They also do a good job of projecting an online identity of being much larger than they really are; when in reality, they are quite small.
This is easily accomplished with a sophisticated website, and the exclusive use of chat-based customer service. Using multiple identities allows a few employees to appear as though they are a large paid staff, thus adding to the illusion of legitimacy.
Recently the amount of banned accounts due to powerleveling has reached an all-time high. With relatively accurate methods of tracking users, Blizzard bans these accounts almost daily, even though they do not annouce it on their website. One large powerleveling company received almost 500 complaints when their accounts were banned.
When fraud happens, the customer has little recourse in getting their money or account back. Because they have already paid, there is little they can do. Even if the account is returned to them, usually by then it is already banned or stripped of items. And because most are located in China, there is nothing most people can do about it. Appealing to the makers of the game is even worse, as they clearly state they do not condone these types of activities.
About the Author
Christina Gilmore is a writer for Power Leveling Sucks, a website dedicated to informing games about the risks of power leveling. Know the risks of power leveling by visiting the website.
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