Besides Blizzard’s lawsuit against Peons4Hire, the players have taken matters into their own hands by filing a class action lawsuit against IGE, citing:
IGE’s gold farming activities not only substantially diminish the enjoyment and satisfaction consumers obtain by earning, through the expenditure of vast amounts of time and energy, virtual assets within World of Warcraft®, they also violate the express terms of agreements Subscribers enter into to participate in World of Warcraft®.
The full complaint can be found in this press release by the attorney. The Escapist interviewed Richard Newsome, the attorney. I will be following this closing.
As Raph pointed in out on his website, the claims in the lawsuit is on slippery slope. I don’t agree with some of the claims, but then again, when was the last time you agreed with all the claims in a lawsuit. You try to stretch as much as possible in your claims, hoping some of them would stick.
I am no lawyer, so I can’t really comment beyond being a player. I do like the layman’s terms explanation:
In layman’s terms, the core of the complaint is a consumer class action for unfair trade practices. Guys like Tony [Hernandez, the plaintiff] have paid their $15 for some entertainment, and IGE is polluting that entertainment. It’s kind of like, if someone pays for a ticket to go see a movie, and if someone else comes in behind them and kicks their seat, you can get them to stop doing that. We’re just trying to get IGE to stop kicking the seats. This is not unlike other consumer complaints where someone has paid for a service, and someone else is interfering with it. It’s really very simple.
Hopefully something come out of it. I don’t go into hyteric mode when I talk about gold sellers, but they do hurt the games we love because MMOs are not balanced with gold farmers in mind.
Don’t hope to get any money out of it. If IGE loses, you as a WoW player will probably get $0.000004 as compensation for your diminish in game play experience. That is, only if you pay the $0.37 postage fee first to return the plantiff form 
