Ge Jin, aka Jingle - Chinese Gold Farmers in MMORPGs

Ge Jin, PhD candidate in Communication at UCSD, is researching areas of the computer gaming culture in China, real money trade in online games and documentary filmmaking. In China, a new kind of factory hires people to play online games like World of Warcraft and Lineage and produce in-game currency, equipment, high-level characters and other virtual goods. Affluent gamers from Korea, Europe and America pay real money for these virtual goods to quickly raise their status in games. Jin's research takes a close look at how these factories, commonly known as "gold farms", organize the production and distribution of virtual goods.

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• Warcraft
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• UCSD
• CRCA

[Vincentlabz]

Good video.

Personnaly I think that gold farming is a good Idea.

It gives work for a lot of chinese and it is better than other chinese who are living in the street or who fight some people everywhere. But now I know that it doesn't respect the Human rigths

But some gold farmers says : " It is better than work in a plant"...

They have : a roof, some food and are protected by some accidents.

So that's not very terrible for them.

That's my opinion.

[90sjunk]

Its not illegal and yes it violates every single games terms of service but that does not mean its illegal it just against the rules you are not breaking any laws. Also they do not live in a shit hole and do not eat any less food then anyone else in the world. Everyone makes a living off of someone elses property unless you do not have a job and then your just living off of someone else.

[goldengunner207]

Thanks for getting me 47 def and ruining my zerker! i only wanted 80 attack!

[mrfriendlyguy]

If sports stars can earn money playing AFL, Basketball, tennis etc and is considered a profession, then hell yeah, a gamer can play WoW, Lineage etc and still be considered doing a job. And no I don't play those type of games as I don't have time due to my job.

[dinozambas7]

I sometimes play on my friends account at his house with him and vice versa so does that mean im a goldfarmer/power leveller no if these guys didnt want to do this job they wouldnt do it would they thumbs up if you agree

[kadajjWJM]

As long as they arent botting I dont mind it. If they are at least doing it themselves im okay with it.

[anirudhhindupur]

I think gaming should be entertainment and fun. Involving business in it doesn't make it fun anymore.

[robochrish]

Fantastic, thank you :),

I have just had to sit and write out every word you said because I need to reference for my dissertation and it took forever! But it was an interesting subject, so thank you .

[SirKil0t]

Thanks for ruining runescape but meh we're getting it all back soon :D

[Toddv1]

The only real problem that gold farming introduces to virtual worlds is inflation that is not anticipated by the developers. Developers have many tools to deal with inflation. Gold farming is not a real problem to virtual worlds.