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Credit Card fraud happens “a sh*tload” to MMO players, Trion Worlds general manager Scott Hartsman has told Gamasutra.
Commenting on the affect of goldfarming websites that perpetuate credit card fraud:
“…you go buy gold from a disreputable gold site, and they say ‘thank you’ and deliver your gold, and sell your credit card number, or start registering accounts with your credit card.
“It’s those kinds of things where people laugh and go, ‘Oh, that never happens.’ No. It happens. It happens a sh*tload. To the point where, over the last three or four years, I would dare anybody to ask an exec at a gaming company how much they’ve had to pay in MasterCard and Visa fines, because of fraud. It happens a lot.”
Hartsman goes on to say that this affects the development of games in very obvious ways.
“Those fines are money that should be going into making games better, and instead they’re going into fighting the fact that people are jerks in the world.”
This follows a recent statement from Sony executive Phil Harrison who claimed a “major MMO” on the market is regularly being hacked on a daily basis.
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