chinese gold farmers

killingpeople

Ge Jin’s preview of his documentary on Chinese gold farmers.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ho5Yxe6UVv4

via terra nova

Eric Chadwick

Thanks for this. Nice to have an eye-witness view of it.

The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well.

KDR_11k

China has reacted by making a game that will hopefully drain away all the farmers from other games.

http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-03/16/content_4308138.htm

Eric Chadwick

The propaganda machine is alive and well!

Mark Dygert

Nice to see the faces of some of the jerkwads that dupe items, inflate prices (so you are almost forced to buy gold from them) and steal rare items from people. Oh yeah its all fun, games and smiles until you spend 3 hours getting to an item you need, only to have someone ninja said item and you later see it being sold for an insane price. Or better yet they camp and dominate certain areas making it impossible to finish quests.
I also like it when the server lags because they are spamming everyone with personal messages "u buy gold now k, www.wowgold4u.com"

Yeah these guys are a hoot...

AstroZombie

I blame the people who use sites like wowgold4u.com more than I blame the Chinese gold farmers. It's the jerkwads that use those sites that generate the demand and are the ones actually ruining the game for those who want to play fair.

oXYnary

Nice to see the human side of things, but dont you think the viewpoint was one sided? That larger company they mentioned and the dorms and living almost brought thoughts of "company town" to my mind. Just how long does each employee have to sit to create enough gold to make a quota and cover living expenses and hopefully some savings (again the larger farming company)?

Valandar

Not being much of a MMORPG player, the first thing that popped in my head when I saw the thread title was a bunch of rural Chinese villagers plowing the ground, planting gold, and spreading fertilizer...

ebagg

How badly are these groups affecting MMORPGs?

gauss

i think this is kind of thing that made Gibson start writing novels based in the present day, instead of his own version of the future. because even the greatest science fiction writers can't come up with scenarios as bizarre as what reality presents us with--chinese gold farmers?

i mean go back in time and tell someone even just 20 years ago that developing nations would have people hired to play a game to farm from the virtual economy... the whole virtual --> real economy stuff just blows my mind.

oXYnary

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whole virtual --> real economy stuff just blows my mind.

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Back to your covered wagon gauss.

steady

haha this is great

Striff

Thanks for linking this, very informative!

I played WoW for about 9 months and never had these type of people effect my game play one bit. Never effected me in Everquest either, maybe I just got lucky or didn't notice it.

I understand where they are coming from, they are just trying to make a living.

Malekyth

Agreed. They make grinding in Azshara pretty miserable, but otherwise I don't see the problem. They're not lagging the servers that much by spamming tells ... I'll disconnect myself by spamming too much debug script to myself, much less to other people, long before it has an effect on the server. As for ninjaing rare stuff ... shit, you don't need to be a farmer to do that. There are assholes from every walk of real life in WoW to ninja yo' shit.