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 fa...
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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China doesnt have the best resources like "america" they have to do what they can to survive, if they found they playing a game makes money, hey sounds good to me,
This industry rocks. The sweatshop scenario is kind of ridiculous. A WoW player already works in a sweatshop of his own making without getting paid. These guys figured out a way to do it without having to work elsewhere.
1. Blizzard owns WoW and all player items/gold. WoW is their IP and dealing in real money for Gold or in game items is directly against ToS. 2. Opening up a gold selling business however is not illegal. It does though, fck with the economy. Gold buying and powerleveling make noob high level chars that don't know shit about the game. 3. Violating ToS is a risk taken... I have no sympathy for the greedy businessmen that try to profit from it, though I do have some for the poor kids in sweatshops
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.
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2. Opening up a gold selling business however is not illegal. It does though, fck with the economy. Gold buying and powerleveling make noob high level chars that don't know shit about the game.
3. Violating ToS is a risk taken... I have no sympathy for the greedy businessmen that try to profit from it, though I do have some for the poor kids in sweatshops
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.