Sentences with phrase «many gold farmers»

Hundreds of thousands of «gold farmers» in developing countries have found a lucrative answer.

But as Heeks points out, this is a controversial practice, and though it helps thousands of gold farmers earn wages equal to those of factory workers, it goes against the rules of the games.

Filling this niche, an estimated 100,000 to one million gold farmers, mostly concentrated in China, spend their days in gaming factories amassing virtual gold in various MMORPGS which they then sell to other players.

In fact, companies that market online games are retaliating by either banning players who they believe are gold farmers or by taking legal action again them.

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.

The gold farmers could care less about you or your demolished characters you spent a year developing.

Now he spends his time playing a power - wielding online fantasy game and his money buying viral gold and other necessaries from Chinese gold farmers and, finally, launching his own techie start - up.

It's fun until she talks to one gold farmer, a teen gamer in China.

Blizzard hopes this system will help drive gold farmers out of business by giving players a secure way to purchase in - game currency.

Seems to me you could make the argument gold farmers were the cause of microtransactions.

In my opinion, ESO suffers from bots and gold farmers to an annoying level.

So I never even thought about the Gold Farmers before, when it came to the tokes.

It's bound to be a useful resource for players, but will also give those pesky gold farmers an edge.

So for every dollar spent on buying virtual gold, only 37 cents of it goes to the actual gold farmers.

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

While news articles that have dealt with gold farmers have implicated workers in Romania, Tijuana, and Indonesia, the belief that the majority of, if not all, gold farmers are Chinese is quite pervasive.

Players who have interacted with gold farmers in a non-confrontational manner typically have very different views of gold farmers.

In the discussion about gold farmers and language fluencies in MMOs however, responses on the official WoW forums suggest otherwise.

It is true that some gold farmers employ a range of cutthroat and deplorable tactics to drive normal players from certain areas in MMOs.

There's been a lot of talk about gold farmers and RMT (real money transactions) lately.

Gold farmers are typically seen as problematic for several reasons.

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.

As I recovered and pondered how to exact revenge against these 3 gold farmers, I realized that in my mind I had instinctively cast them as Chinese gold farmers.

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).

But let's leave the historical parallel behind for now and focus more on gold farmers in MMOs.

Thus, gold farmers are perceived to create two main problems.

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.

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.

In performing the usual hanging of these gold farmers, Mythic is inspiring more and more gamers to come in and play and that Warhammer is a fair and just game.

Even as systematic harassment of gold farmers appears widespread, it is also clear that some players feel that gold farmers in fact are offering a valuable service.

And that is, the kill - stealing and Mob - player - killing that some gold farmers take part in to keep player away.

Because of the presumed nationality of gold farmers, some players use an interesting litmus test on probable farmers.

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

Thus, even though many players make use of this service, gold farmers remain a stigmatized group.

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

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 mainly hear people yelling and complaining or insulting gold farmers with racist slurs.

While many MMO players have argued that the term «Chinese gold farmer» is an objective and accurate label, this invocation of race plays a significant role in how players determine whether a player is a gold farmer or not.

Gold farmers don't destroy the game?

It isn't like gold farming is forced on them, they made a choice to be a gold farmer.

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 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..

Over the past few years, these gold farmers have typically been stereotyped as being Chinese.

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.

People who react to Chinese (or other) gold farmers with racial slurs were clearly racists to begin with.

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

I can not get really excited about gold farmers, any more that I can get really upset about the weather.

Nick is not saying farming is right... he is not arguing it is acceptable, he is saying that it is interesting that we place the negative label of CHINESE gold farmer, on ALL gold farmers.