Its agriculture but not as you know it.
Gold farming is something that came up in today's lecture and I mentioned that I had read an article on it.
Ive found that article it was published in The New York Times in June this year. The article is really interesting because not only does it talk about the living conditions and what it takes to be a "Chinese Gold Farmer" It it also begins to talk about the ramifications of gold farming in a social and economic sense.
The article can be found here.
Gold farming is somthing I find really interesting because its a rapidly growing industry and is hugely advertised, all while being completely illegal. Even though its illegal very little is done to try and stop it.
Gold farming is at its largest in the game World of Warcraft. Namely because it currently is the largest Massive Multiplayer Online Game around at the moment. The developers of World of Warcraft, Blizzard have done very little to stop the selling of gold in their game. They do some work to ban the players who are caught selling gold and have tried sueing some of the companies that run the websites you can buy gold from, but for the most part thier efforts are in vain.
The part of the article that I enjoyed most is where it talks about players reactions to when they find a gold farmer inside the game. Mostly they are met with hostility, this caught my attention because it really shows a link to how events happening in the real world can affect the way a person will play a simulated game.
Even if your not into games at all the article is well worth the read just to see how hard the life of a gold farmer is.
Ive found that article it was published in The New York Times in June this year. The article is really interesting because not only does it talk about the living conditions and what it takes to be a "Chinese Gold Farmer" It it also begins to talk about the ramifications of gold farming in a social and economic sense.
The article can be found here.
Gold farming is somthing I find really interesting because its a rapidly growing industry and is hugely advertised, all while being completely illegal. Even though its illegal very little is done to try and stop it.
Gold farming is at its largest in the game World of Warcraft. Namely because it currently is the largest Massive Multiplayer Online Game around at the moment. The developers of World of Warcraft, Blizzard have done very little to stop the selling of gold in their game. They do some work to ban the players who are caught selling gold and have tried sueing some of the companies that run the websites you can buy gold from, but for the most part thier efforts are in vain.
The part of the article that I enjoyed most is where it talks about players reactions to when they find a gold farmer inside the game. Mostly they are met with hostility, this caught my attention because it really shows a link to how events happening in the real world can affect the way a person will play a simulated game.
Even if your not into games at all the article is well worth the read just to see how hard the life of a gold farmer is.
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