Virtual export
May 13, 2008 by Phil
Gold Farmers are young people who earn their living by playing MMORPG games. They acquire (”farm”) items of value within a game, usually by carrying out in-game actions repeatedly to maximize gains, sometimes by using a program such as a bot or automatic clicker.
They sell the artificial gold coins and other virtual goods they’ve harvested to players and/or farming organizations and get “real” money in return. Players from around the world will then use the golden coins to buy better armor, magic spells and other equipments to climb to higher levels or create more powerful characters.
Interesting article about a documentary by Ge Jin about people in developing countries virtually exporting goods to earn some money.
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