We tried to earn as much gold in WoW: Forever as we could in 2 hours—which involved a mugging, slander, and at least one crashout

If you want to make money in World of Warcraft, well… I cannot rightly say that we at PC Gamer are any good at it, based on the evidence given to us—but we are at least inventing new ways of money-making. And isn't invention the mother of necessity? Or was it the other way around? Who cares, we've got pockets to line.

I wrangled two of my erstwhile co-workers, Fraser Brown and Joshua Wolens, to see which of us was the best at making money in World of Warcraft: Forever's beta. Which felt like a fair testing ground, given both how populated it is and how un-inflated its new, fledgling economy would be. Here were the rules:

We each had a nest-egg of 20 silver to get us started.

Starting from our spawning points into Azeroth, we had to make as much gold as we could in two hours.

There were some additional rules about auction house postings that didn't …