If you want to make money in World of Warcraft, well… I cannot rightly say that we at PC Gamer are any good at it, based on the evidence given to us—but we are at least inventing new ways of money-making. And isn't invention the mother of necessity? Or was it the other way around? Who cares, we've got pockets to line.
I wrangled two of my erstwhile co-workers, Fraser Brown and Joshua Wolens, to see which of us was the best at making money in World of Warcraft: Forever's beta. Which felt like a fair testing ground, given both how populated it is and how un-inflated its new, fledgling economy would be. Here were the rules:
- We started as level 1 horde characters.
- We each had a nest-egg of 20 silver to get us started.
- Starting from our spawning points into Azeroth, we had to make as much gold as we could in two hours.
- There were some additional rules about auction house postings that didn't become relevant.
- No really. I spent a lot of time thinking about them and their implications for the challenge. None of us bothered.
- I'm definitely not mad about it.
Each of us entered with a different strategy. Well, two of us...
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