Sentences with phrase «gold farmers do»

If 20 % of players buy gold, if most players are too low - level to encounter gold farmers, and if gold farming may stabilize some game economies, is it really the case that gold farmers do more harm than good?

Gold farmers don't destroy the game?

My goal is not to justify what gold farmers do, but rather to complicate the typical story we tell about gold farming.

Understanding why gold farmers do what they do changes how they interact with them.

Not exact matches

Azeroth's economy is based on (virtual) gold, and although it doesn't cost (real) money — notorious Chinese gold farmers notwithstanding — it does take time.

They didn't come from privilege or prep school; the nine young men in the University of Washington scull who won gold in the 1936 Olympics, infuriating the Führer while the home crowd cheered, were the sons of farmers, loggers and longshoremen.

EA wants to show to the world that is doing something with gold farmers but in my opinion they will lose.

Some gold farmers actually don't mind their jobs because they hang around playing games for extensive periods of time.

I hate to stereotype all gold farmers as Chinese, but the ones I've run into really did seem like they weren't at all competent with the English language (though to be fair, that describes a fairly large chunk of the population, especially on the PvP servers).

As we've seen, most of the profit from gold farming does not go to the actual gold farmers.

Over the past 6 months, several reports of who these gold farmers are and what they do has emerged and the overall picture is quite consistent.

I don't mind much of the presence of gold farmers on my server, but there is a limit to the sympathy I give them.

I wrote a (hopefully) interesting post on how the subscription model affects MMO gameplay (it doesn't just predict hunting gold - farmers, it even predicts new MMOs will become increasingly LESS fun)

THAT»S why I hate the so - called «Chinese Gold Farmers» (and no, I don't assume they're all chinese, but I DO find them ALL to be leachesDO find them ALL to be leaches.)

I don't really want to debate your underlying assumptions, such as whether or not gold farmers cause inflation, whether or not 20 % of players buying gold is an unrealistically high estimate, etc..

I think people intentionally fail to get the point that it doesn't matter WHAT country gold farmers come from but that the MARKET is white and middle class.

If gold farmers really are doing more good than harm, how can their actions be unethical?

The fact that racists are using the gold farming phenomenon as an opportunity to hurl racial epithets does not affect the gold farmers» moral culpability one way or the other.

What people mostly don't like is that farmers create imbalance between «regular» players and gold buyers.

Now comes my interest in all of this... The stereotypical Jewish businessman who is greedy and unwilling to share, as horrible a stereo type that it is, has survived for well over 500 years... How long will the Chinese gold farmer label survive if nothing is done to remove the connotations and worse, as MMORPGS are played by more people and terms from these games become more accepted by the wider community, how long till the first little white boy goes to school and offers to pay his Asian friend to do his homework... or maybe it is already happening?

As I mentioned to Thezdin, apart from this rule itself, do we really know whether gold farmers are doing more harm than good?

I'm not rich, in fact the average gold farmer (Chinese or otherwise) makes a better living then I do, so tell me again why they should be allowed again?

Race has a lot to do with gold farming because many players use racial cues to «identify» gold farmers who they then label as hostile.

Why do I dislike gold farmers you may ask?

While there may be 24/7 gold farmers out there, that doesn't mean all of it comes from them.

That's why I don't think the metaphor is particularly apt, and why I think it does tend to suggest the somewhat Marxist point of view that gold farmers are not morally culpable for their actions because they are oppressed.

I don't think that is what was being said, once again someone has stated that they are effected as a player, not as a gold farmer from an Eastern European country as opposed to an asian country, they are simply stating that their gaming enjoyment is ruined by the existence of farmers.

Regardless, There are a few points which remain, WoW is a game whilst it has an economy and whilst it is possible to exploit that, it doesn t make it right regardless of who does it or for what reason, so whilst I am disgusted by the appellation Chinese gold farmer, I refuse to allow my distaste for the racism prevent me from hating the people doing it!

In homemade World of Warcraft video clips that circulate on YouTube or GameTrailers, with titles like «Chinese Gold Farmers Must Die» and «Chinese Farmer Extermination,» players document their farmer - killing expeditions through that same Timbermaw - ridden patch of WoW in which Min does his farming — a place so popular with farmers that Western players sometimes call it ChinFarmers Must Die» and «Chinese Farmer Extermination,» players document their farmer - killing expeditions through that same Timbermaw - ridden patch of WoW in which Min does his farming — a place so popular with farmers that Western players sometimes call it Chinfarmers that Western players sometimes call it China Town.

Did the gold farmers destroy the economy?

Not all farmers are bad - players have to farm as part of the game Persistent farmers are bad - the type that do nothing but farm (since we know their gold / items are used for sale, not personal use) Not all farmers are rude The majority of farmers seem to be Chinese (see above as to why) Chinese - speaking players are only encountered when they are farming Chinese farmers are rude, train mobs, try to control an area, and are disruptive to players attempting to play in the same area Chinese farmers monopolize an area, causing other players distress Non-Chinese farmers typically do not exhibit the rudeness and other negative attitudes / behaviors