World of Warcraft Blog
No, buying WoW power leveling is not safe. Many gamers every day are mislead into purchasing power leveling services due to the low cost and high gain. Power leveling is very inexpensive as the entire industry is based off of the employment of cheap labor from overseas countries such as China and the Philippines.
Many power leveling services claim that all of the leveling is completed in the U.S, this is false. There are two reasons why this statement is always false.
1. The Fair Labor Standards Act in the United States sets the federal minimum wage at $6.55 per hour.
2. It takes a minimum of 7 days to reach level 80 from level 1. That is 7 days played for a total of 168 hours.
Some power leveling services are charging as low as $138.00 USD for power leveling from level 1 to 80. These companies can charge these low rates as they are employing people from third world countries that can and will work for pennies an hour.
The problem? Blizzard Entertainment has security systems built in place to easily detect game logging from these countries. When you send your account to a power leveling service you are sending it overseas, to be logged into from a computer and IP from an overseas country most commonly China. If you share your account login with a power leveling service your account will be disabled, suspended, or banned. We do not recommend power leveling to any player.
We want to hear from you! Have you used Power Leveling services? Did you have a good or bad experience?
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No, although I have ordered power leveling before - the last one I ordered ended up with a suspension on my WoW account.
I believe that there are some good power leveling sites, I don’t think that it’s a total no-no.
Comment by Lucas — July 4, 2009 #