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There Could Be Up to a Million Chinese Gold Farmers

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A new report on MMO gold farming claims that there are about 400,000 working in China on gold farming and trading, and that there could be as many as 500,000 to even a full million.
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Published: 224 days 3 hours ago | News | PC
 
 

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Timesplitter14 - 224 days 1 hour ago
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whatever makes them happy...
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Awookie - 224 days 1 hour ago
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Happy? More like mindless zombies, they have to play so much
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Panthers - 224 days ago
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Wait, is this like a job? Do people actually pay real money for in game money? WTF!? Ive never played an MMO (but I will probably get that new KOTOR) but I mean come on, it is a game.
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Tony240ZT - 224 days ago
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Get out from under your rock.
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Timesplitter14 - 224 days ago
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Well some people earn 4 milion dollars a year for kicking balls into nets, so I guess it doesn't make much more sense
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Max Power - 224 days ago
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if they belong to guilds with each other so they can burn through instances and other quest much faster.
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BRG9000 - 224 days ago
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Yeah I've been wondering how the farmers in WoW get their gold these days. There used to just be handfuls of rogues with chinese-sounding names hanging out at all the most lucrative mob spawns. I used to go to those places just to kill the farmers, always a fun sport. Now that daily quests are the best way to make money, do they have a bunch of characters that they run through 25 dailies with? I never see them just farming mobs anymore.
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Lumbo - 223 days 23 hours ago
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"The yearly turnover for all these enterprises combined is estimated at over 10 billion US dollars. World of Warcraft players make up 70 per cent of this RMT activity"

It is funny how they throw around the big numbers, but fail the simple task of using a calculator to check the plausibility of these numbers.

If WOW is representing 70% of the money, then WOW represents 7 billion $ yearly turnover. WOW has 12 million active subscribers. To generate 7 billion $ turnover, each and every WOW player has to buy gold worth 533 USD every year. It is highly unlikely that more than 10% of WOW players actually BUY gold from the farmers. In that case each buyer had to buy wow gold worth $5300 a year. The whole idea is ridicules.

Sorry, but the numbers are clearly blown out of any proportions.
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Phantom_T - 223 days 23 hours ago
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Who played Shadowbane understands just how badly they crave farming.
It was a pure-pvp town building guild running game.
And the Chinese "CN" took over a server JUST to farm.
Was awful,luckily an alliance was made on the other server to keep them off.
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Tachyon_Nova - 223 days 17 hours ago
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Big deal, the sadest fact about MMO's is that people play them at all. So if your going to waste away playing one, at least makes some money of it.
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