In an article on eastday.com gold farmers defend their actions.
“We call it ‘Gold Farming’,” said Wang Yiwei, “Gold is the virtual currency in WoW with which players can buy stuff just like in the real world. Players can only obtain Gold by accomplishing time-consuming quests, slaying monsters, or starting a virtual business through the game’s trade and auction system.”Wang runs two companies, one in Shanghai and another in his hometown in northeast China, with over 40 employees or “Gold Farmers” as they call themselves. Their job is to play WoW all day long to gather as much Gold as possible, and then sell the virtual money to players in the real world for real money.
Wang said, “A big proportion of WoW players are white-collar workers and students. These people do not have enough time to go through all the time-consuming procedures to obtain the virtual money they need, so we do it for them. We help those people save time, for a small fee.”
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