Sentences with phrase «not gold farmers»

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..

Not exact matches

In the words of William Jennings Bryan, «You shall not crucify the American farmer on a cross of gold».

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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

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)

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 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.

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.

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.

In other words, it is not the behavior per se that is the damning piece of evidence as to whether a player is a gold farmer, but rather, whether they are fluent in the English language.

Dennis: Whether most (or all) gold farmers are Chinese or not is not something I actually argue about in this article.

If prices were slightly less expensive, and gold a little easier to obtain, then there really wouldn't be a market for farmers & sellers!

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?

Once again, it isn't that he has a crappy job, it isn't that you have a crappy job, it is the reality that the term chinese gold farmer is becoming socially acceptable, when it is often inaccurate and obviously quite offensive.

Gold farmers aren't the problem.

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

On the European servers, I haven't run across any obvious gold farmers; they seem more widespread on the American servers, possibly because of the larger customer base.

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.

While it's not clear how common this setup is, it is not the case that all gold farmers own their machines and pay for their own subscriptions.

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