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The company has posted a page about the subject up at its WOW site. Basically, it states that all of the content in World of Warcraft is the property of Blizzard Entertainment, and Blizzard does not allow in game items Runescape Gold to be sold for real money.
The company even goes so far as to suggest this is illegal. As a final warning, the company says that purchasing in-game property from sellers on personal and public auction sites can result in a suspension of the involved account, and at the very least, deletion of the offending items.
A generic answer, perhaps, but it would be surprising to think that the world's largest MMO manufacturer had not at least entertained the thought of launching its own, sanctioned RMT.
After all, barbershops and even paid-for sex changes have come about due to player demand in World of Warcraft.
As we'll see, other developers are more candid about the battles - and strategies - involved in the gold-selling wars.
Whilst MMO producers have tried to crack down, hard, upon the gold sellers where they can, Richard Heeks of Manchester University argues that controls on gold farming may introduce other 'disutilities' for regular players.