I just read some rows
about gold farmers in game.
I can not get really excited
about gold farmers, any more that I can get really upset about the weather.
In this article, I want to describe the story that we usually tell and hear
about gold farmers as well as re-readings and alternatives to that story.
There's been a lot of talk
about gold farmers and RMT (real money transactions) lately.
In the discussion
about gold farmers and language fluencies in MMOs however, responses on the official WoW forums suggest otherwise.
So I never even thought
about the Gold Farmers before, when it came to the tokes.
Not exact matches
The
gold farmers could care less
about you or your demolished characters you spent a year developing.
Note: As I'm reading over the comments here and from referrer links, I'm noticing that a lot of people are under the mistaken impression that I'm mainly arguing that most
gold farmers are not Chinese and that it's this aspect of the stereotype that I'm writing
about.
My goal is not to justify what
gold farmers do, but rather to complicate the typical story we tell
about gold farming.
But the juxtaposition of this historical narrative with the much more recent narrative we typically tell
about «Chinese»
gold farmers reveals its disturbing metaphors and framings.
Dennis: Whether most (or all)
gold farmers are Chinese or not is not something I actually argue
about in this article.
I think one thing that people are speaking a lot
about is how using the term «chinese
gold farmer» is good or bad.
In general chat (visible to all players in a given area) there are regular Asian racial slurs, calling people Chinese
gold farmers or straight up chinks or gooks, or making remarks
about slant eyes.
The Daedalus Project has an interesting article up, which talks
about a subject we've covered here before —
gold farmers.
I actually saw a documentary
about Chinese
gold farmers a couple of days ago and was fascinated.
According to one report, the gaming company Jagex which produces Runescape has been contacted
about the influx of Venezuelan
gold farmers but has yet to comment on the issue.