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Ge Jin, aka Jingle - Chinese Gold Farmers in MMORPGs

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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.

Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm
Author: Calit2ube

Length: 25:06
Rating: 4.70
Views: 27689

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gethale (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Allright but I make over 300 gold/hour using guide from GOLDMAKINGGUIDE(.)INFOBecause alliance suck balls and can't solo quests to save their lives. In my experience.
wanghao6207171 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
From what you said, I acknowledged three things: 1st, you have difficulty in understanding my words, as I've said that I'm a non-online gamer, I'm a console gamer. 2nd, you crave venting possibly because of your social status, loser who undergoes bully and oppression from your superordinates, lives cowardly. and the only way loser can vent is to bully vulnerable third world country's victims. 3rd, you are poorly educated which can be observed from your rude words, and you've got no compassion.
nexes1337 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
you are just as all chinese people : gold farming stinky nobodys who do stuff for me i give you a few dollars and you spend days for me working ahhaah you people rule !game on you dont have time for youtube you have to level noob chars over and over and over and over again this will ahunt you in your nightmares: over and over and over and over NOOB CHARACTERS!
wanghao6207171 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
These people are living a pathetic life. Not only because of the bad working condition, but also some future issues. They get no valuable working experience from the job, what can they do or what empirical properity they could possibly get from the job? NONE. Their futures are grey. they gasp at the bottom of society. Social welfares? NONE... The only thing that china is not lack of is the population. How much money can the government provide for each person in a country of 1.3 billion people?
wanghao6207171 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
This video shocks me, I have to say. I'm a chinese, and I'm addicted to video games. but I'm more a console gamer rather than a pc gamer, and I don't play online games. I have to say that in nowadays millions of chinese youths are wasting their lives in those endless, repetitive online games. It's quite a perceptible phenomenon here in china resulted from shortage of job and labor excess. But it's really unanticipated to see the excessive, unsettled labor is utilized in this way.
mathuv (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
theft? theft from a computer game? that sounds so dumb. go to china and hear what they have to say, THEN say theyre thieves. theyre just trying to earn a living and have chosen this as their job.. i play WoW too and honestly, farmers dont annoy me. only thing that bugs me is the spam. other than that im ok with them
Eceoes (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Even if they have it hard, there is no excuse for what they are doing. What they are doing is theft. Making money off of someone else intellectual property is not legal or ethical. At the same time, they ruin the gaming experience for honest players such as myself. A while ago I found out someone in my guild had his account hacked, and this is all because of RMT. No matter what the situation is, crime is never justifiable.
hungryhamsters (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
I work as a software engineer. Some of my co-workers working in China make $12,000 chinese dollar in a month, but lots of people who didn't have higher education make less than $1000 chinese dollar a month. Most of the farmers that work in city as construction workers make less $500 a month. But you probably don't know pork is $15 a pound in big city and $20 a pound in village or small town. Go to China, take a look. Don't judge someone before you know them.
hungryhamsters (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
I meant I don't think they say they are professional gamers.
hungryhamsters (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
I don't think they never say they are professional gamers. Most of them are just kids, and they just want to make a living. You have your family provide you food, school, shelter, $15 a month for WoW, but they have none. Get a job or starve on the street which is true on mose of the third world countries in this world, including Indian and Africa. It is also easy to say "get another job", you are not living in that country, you don't know how hard it is to get a job.


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