Sentences with phrase «of gold farmers»

Consider the numbers, youth, and low wages of the gold farmers, and the growing interest in outsourcing tasks online.

Most of my gold farmers are college students right here in the USA.

And finally, I feel that the stereotype of the «hostile» gold farmer is based on the actions of a visible minority of gold farmers (and mistaken griefers).

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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The rhetoric suggested Australian dairy farmers were set to tap into rivers of gold thanks to a milk exporting boom.

In recent decades, however, illegal loggers, irresponsible farmers, and gold miners have begun to raze large swaths of once - pristine rainforest in pursuit of short - term profit.

But recently, while shopping at the farmers» market for some veg to grill for a barbecue, I saw them: pink, gold, and red, plucked out of the ground early that morning and topped with bright bouquets of greens.

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

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

An assortment of vegetables, including sweet summer corn, squash, favas, peppery arugula, onion, basil, and sun gold tomatoes from my local farmers» market.

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.

[return][return] From the Paks books (Sheepfarmer's Daughter, Divided Allegiance, Oath of Gold), some is already known of Gird - that he was a farmer who trained fellow farmers to be soldiers and together they overthrew an oppressive government.

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Our guide Gerald Garner is brilliant on Johannesburg's history: the gold rush, the extraordinary boom town expansion (the population grew from a few farmers in 1886 to 80,000 within eight years), the British colonisation, the Boer War, the imposition of apartheid, the imprisonment and freeing of Mandela and the more recent fall and rebirth of the city.

This boutique farmers market features produce and products grown and produced in the Gympie region and highlights members of the Gympie Gold Regional Produce network of producers and food re...

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.

His last two major projects, «Workers» (1986 — 1992) and «Migrations» (1993 — 1999), are epic studies of postindustrial economic development, as reflected in the faces of those whom it least serves, from Brazilian gold miners to Vietnamese fishermen, displaced Ecuadorian farmers to Sudanese refugees.

Acuña is an indigenous farmer from the Cajamarca highlands of Peru, near one of the largest open - pit copper and gold mines in the world, run by Peru's Buenaventura and Colorado - based Newmont mining companies.

The Gold miners, beef ranchers, palm oil and soy farmers all want to burn it down in the dark of night so that they can proceed unimpeded.

After the Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley, announced the revival of certain measures in rural areas nationwide to increase farmers» income, the Gold prices across these areas are set to go up as expected by jewelers and traders.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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..

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.

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?

All of these agents, from the gold farmers to the gold buyers to the middlemen, are acting illegally by explicitly violating a contract (the TOS).

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.

And of course this depends on the portion of players who are negatively affected by the gold farmers.

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.

When people are categorizing certain players as gold farmers based on assumptions and stereotypes of nationality and linguistic abilities, gold farmers in a sense are being created from these racial dynamics.

Just like in the merchant of Venice Shylock painted the picture of money hungry Jews who were money lenders there is now the portrayal of Chinese as gold farmers...

The existing stereotypes of «Chinese gold farmer» encourage some players to push these identities on certain kinds of players they encounter.

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?

If a farmer forces prices to rise, then if I am a casual player saving up to buy my BoE item from the AH and every week the price gets higher because of the influx of gold and the readiness from those with purchased gold from RMT to spend above the average price...