Sunday, December 18, 2005
Gold Farming
I was just reading today’s Toronto Star, Section C (Buzz, C11). A few years ago, you would check into Ebay and see people selling items in Diablo II for real money. Do you know what they have now?
In China, they have hundreds or thousands of companies which employ GOLD FARMERS. They have young kids come in and play World of Warcraft and other MMORPGS 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, and their objective is to… well, farm gold. They are given a computer, and they have a boss that oversees their operation, and they have quotas to meet. They farm gold in WOW, they make high level characters, and then they sell them to real people for real money.
Imagine that. I thought it was just individual people sometimes selling some stuff, but now they have full companies employing ~100,000 people, to play World of Warcraft for 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, farming gold, and selling it to other people. That’s… that’s amazing.
And very odd. But, it’s there. And of course, now Sony Entertainment is setting up their own marketplace. And then there’s always E-bay. Anyway, it’s a good article.
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In China, they have hundreds or thousands of companies which employ GOLD FARMERS. They have young kids come in and play World of Warcraft and other MMORPGS 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, and their objective is to… well, farm gold. They are given a computer, and they have a boss that oversees their operation, and they have quotas to meet. They farm gold in WOW, they make high level characters, and then they sell them to real people for real money.
Imagine that. I thought it was just individual people sometimes selling some stuff, but now they have full companies employing ~100,000 people, to play World of Warcraft for 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, farming gold, and selling it to other people. That’s… that’s amazing.
And very odd. But, it’s there. And of course, now Sony Entertainment is setting up their own marketplace. And then there’s always E-bay. Anyway, it’s a good article.