BF2S Forums The industry of gold farming (for video games)

sergeriver wrote:

Nearly 500,000 people in developing nations earn a wage making virtual goods in online games to sell to players, a study has found.  Research by Manchester University shows that the practice, known as gold-farming, is growing rapidly.  The industry, about 80% based in China, employs about 400,000 people who earn £77 per month on average.  The practice is flourishing despite efforts by games companies to crack down on the trade in virtual goods.

This is lame.

Much like WoW.

I remember seeing a thread about how WoW gold is valued as a currency more than some nation's currency (Thailand I think).

lame that people make a living this way or lame about the crackdown?

remember game genie?

I don't think it's lame that people make a living this way.  I do however think it's lame that people are willing to buy these virtual goods, I mean how fucking sad can you get.

KILLSWITCH wrote:

I don't think it's lame that people make a living this way.  I do however think it's lame that people are willing to buy these virtual goods, I mean how fucking sad can you get.

If it makes ...(prepares his nerdy voice) makes my lvl 80 tauren druid look like a bad ass then yes (sees the local bully walking by) don't hurt me ahhhh ow my sternum...(normal voice) well anyways i think its real pathetic i do play mmorpgs not wow but i do know how the majority use bots to advertise the damn system basically they'll PM you through the player search since most of those games have that option for trading and party purposes only, but they'll use that and send you a private message. It real bad that people support these systems, but most of these people are usually kids or teens with money stacks. I should know when I was in 7th Grade I was playing Runescape at the local library and there was a lot of these little kids that played it too, but anyways eventually i had a theory about power leveling characters to level 50 and then selling them to the kids for $20-$40 bucks (easy money I think this when I started to con a lot people).Since I now know the rules about selling (my friend's dad is a cop stop me at 8th grade after his son con kid for $70 for a level 70 character). MMO's can bring the worst out of people for a game that is about leisure rather then competition.