Gold Farming in WOW
Posted on October 2nd, 2006
Having played World of Warcraft for some time now, I’m curious about the seedy underbelly of the game’s virtual world. One of the shady things that is very interesting is gold farming, where underpaid workers - usually in Asia - spend 10 hours a day playing a WOW character just to make gold for a company - typically by killing the same monsters (mobs) over and over again. These players are pretty obvious when spotted by normal players as they are often killing monsters that are too low for their level, and when approached, don’t respond or speak poor English. A common name for gold farmers is “Chinese Farmer”. Obviously this virtual gold is worthless in terms of dollars so the gold ends up being sold on Ebay and the like. Read more at Anatomy of a Gold Farmer and Times Online.
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