Real Money Trade (RMT) is the buying and selling of virtual property or currency for real-world Aoc Gold. Many virtual worlds now embrace this trade in virtual currency and goods, often as a source of income for the world's operator. Blizzard, the developer of World of Warcraft (WoW), does not:

Not just rhetoric. They have sued a leading supplier to prevent them advertising in-game. And they regularly ban large numbers of accounts used to "farm" gold.

That environment seems to have expanded another quite logical commercial market: Teaching players to play. "Learn2Play" in the vernacular, or "L2P" in shorthand.

"RMT is a TOS [Terms of Service] violation. The fanbase is pretty committed to being against it, and we've got a group of guys that are committed to stopping TOS violations.

The game was never designed for that in mind - everyone starts off even. In the real world that's not true, but in WoW everyone starts even, and the RMT stuff messes with that."