In an effort to boost profits, virtual gold selling firm GamePal has turned to selling the services of in-game "escorts."
According to an ad on their website, GamePal is now offering buyers the chance to hire companions who "can do anything you want and everything you ask for!"
The picture included with the ad (and at right) might present the idea that these "escorts" exist to appease the lonely gamer with too much money on their hands, but the description offered by GamePal seems a bit more tame.
"An Escort Service is a new feature that allows you to hire an escort to assist you in the game. Absolutely anything you want can be done, even when you have logged off the game! Ask any questions you want. Have him take you wherever you want to go. Give him orders to help you in your quests. Include him in your strategy," the ad states.
Whether this is a case of extremely well advertised power-leveling services or of confusingly advertised virtual prostitution is still unclear, but either way it's almost guaranteed to be in violation of some part of the extremely broad language used in current MMO EULAs, which generally prohibit the hiring of outside organizations to play the game for you.
That's never stopped gold selling firms in the past though, and we doubt it will have much of an effect on the viability of the "escort" business, whatever that might be.
Introducing Gamepal Escort Services [Gamepal, via Ten Ton Hammer]
