Ge Jin, aka Jingle – Chinese Gold Farmers in MMORPGs
July 8, 2010
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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so it’s THESE …
so it’s THESE holes who farm gold then spam major cities for people to buy it!
Also like the kids …
Also like the kids in the warehouses were saying, they don’t just screw around they have to keep farming the same monster repeatedly with someone looking over their shoulder at all times telling them what to do. “If I met a gold farmer I would tell them what they do is wrong.” Let that spoiled rich boy live in China for a week and he’ll stop bitching, worrying about what is “moral”, and start worrying about how to survive. Work 300hrs+ a month for only $240 no thanks!
@Vincentlabz I …
@Vincentlabz I agree with you. Even if it off other gamers or people from other countries it is better than them living on the street and stealing/committing crimes. I wouldn’t want to sit in front of a computer for 12hrs per day 7 days a week in some warehouse only cooled by fans in some plastic or metal chair (not some cushioned leather flexible chair in air condition). Imagine how much your neck and would hurt sitting in a metal chair for 12 hours hunched over a monitor.
Very insightful …
Very insightful research. Thank you for sharing this.
This completely …
This completely ruins gold making in WoW…. It’s wrong, and Blizzard don’t do about it
i think what people …
i think what people seem to forget is that a persons real life status shouldn’t give them an advantage in games. what gold farmers are doing is enabling people who have more money in real life to have in-game advantages by selling virtual items/money which should have to be ernt by all players the same way, by working for it. if bill gates logs into world of warcraft should he have an advantage over any other player just because he can afford to buy his way through the game?
just my opinion.
Fucking chinks
chinks
gold farming isnt a …
gold farming isnt a crime!!!! they should allow this
I don’t like …
I don’t like Chinese gold farmers. Not because they sell gold. But steal peoples characters. If they just used there own characters then it would be fine with me.
@Vincentlabz
I …
@Vincentlabz
I can’t really say I’m against it or with it because of all the things about it…
I don’t like it, but without it, so many more people wouldn’t have a job and would end up dying sooner because they can’t afford food…
At least Blizzard …
At least Blizzard has won a legal case against the US counterpart of a gold farming company setting a legal precedence for other developers to cut down on gold farmers. But its still up to the players to actively hunt down active gold farms and root them out.
“As a professional …
“As a professional gamer, you can have an income though not much, but its still a happy thing”
That person has hope!
interesting. shame …
interesting. shame that it only has 40k views since 2007, out of the millions of players
The world is not …
The world is not flat.
I think now we got it ;D
But anyway, thanks alot for uploading this video.
I’m not a WoW-Gamer, but thans for offering us a quick view into the World of Goldfarming.
so does America.. …
so does America..drug dealing
haha thats so silly …
haha thats so silly, the state doesnt own all business in china.
you know what i …
you know what i hate. china is a communist country which means the government owns every buisiness.. gold farming is ilegal.. so china has a buisiness which is ilegal…
China doesnt have …
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,
if a farmer says …
if a farmer says it’s good, then there is your answer.
This industry rocks …
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 …
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 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.
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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.
u started it faggit …
u started it faggit, wid using the word ‘nub’. so before stating something look at yourself.
such a little kid …
such a little kid comment.
ur mama is nub in …
ur mama is nub in beddy