Gold farming and exploitation in online games
13th July 2006
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The wikipedia has an interesting article about Gold farming, which it defines as follows:
“A farmer is a general term for a person who acquires in-game currency in a MMORPG through collecting items and money that can be obtained by continually defeating enemies within the game. Farming is a popular method in which to obtain in-game currency within many MMORPGs. A gold farmer is a person who collects in-game currency for the purpose of selling it to other players for real world currency, such as the US dollar.”
In our own entry, we added some comments by Paul Goodman on how it relates to the concept of Immaterial Labour.
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See the related trends on crowdsourcing and personal offshoring.
