http://www.psfk.com/2008/08/virtual-goods-sustaining-poor.html Ideas & Trends Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:45:04 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.psfk.com/2008/08/virtual-goods-sustaining-poor.html/comment-page-1#comment-101507 links for 2008-08-25 « Francis Anderson Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:32:42 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=13816#comment-101507 [...] Virtual Goods Sustaining Poor In a game like World of Warcraft, some non-devout players often can’t be bothered to put the time & effort into gameplay to gain better weapons and armor for their avatars. So they’ll outsource gameplay to “gold-farmers” to play & advance their avatar. BBC reports that at least 400,000 people in China earn an average of £77 per month selling these virtual goods to players. (tags: wow gaming metaverse popculture) [...] [...] Virtual Goods Sustaining Poor In a game like World of Warcraft, some non-devout players often can’t be bothered to put the time & effort into gameplay to gain better weapons and armor for their avatars. So they’ll outsource gameplay to “gold-farmers” to play & advance their avatar. BBC reports that at least 400,000 people in China earn an average of £77 per month selling these virtual goods to players. (tags: wow gaming metaverse popculture) [...]

]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/08/virtual-goods-sustaining-poor.html/comment-page-1#comment-97190 Virtual Goods Sustaining Poor | World Of Warcraft News Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:30:51 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=13816#comment-97190 [...] post by Technorati Search for: world of warcraft Need WOW Guide? Click [...] [...] post by Technorati Search for: world of warcraft Need WOW Guide? Click [...]

]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/08/virtual-goods-sustaining-poor.html/comment-page-1#comment-96630 Virtual Goods Sustaining Poor Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:37:25 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/?p=13816#comment-96630 [...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptIn a game like World of Warcraft, some non-devout players often can’t be bothered to put the time & effort into gameplay to gain better weapons and armor for their avatars. So they’ll outsource gameplay to “gold-farmers” to play & advance their avatar. BBC reports that at least 400,000 people in China earn an average of £77 per month selling these virtual goods to players. Steven Davis, chief of game security firm Secure Play, said gold farming had been around since the earliest days o [...] [...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptIn a game like World of Warcraft, some non-devout players often can’t be bothered to put the time & effort into gameplay to gain better weapons and armor for their avatars. So they’ll outsource gameplay to “gold-farmers” to play & advance their avatar. BBC reports that at least 400,000 people in China earn an average of £77 per month selling these virtual goods to players. Steven Davis, chief of game security firm Secure Play, said gold farming had been around since the earliest days o [...]

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