My goal is not to justify
what gold farmers do, but rather to complicate the typical story we tell about gold farming.
Not exact matches
Since my Sun
Gold cherry tomatoes are producing like crazy, and I have summer squash from our
farmers» market in the fridge, I think I know
what dinner will be tonight!
Understanding why
gold farmers do
what they do changes how they interact with them.
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 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.
What people mostly don't like is that
farmers create imbalance between «regular» players and
gold buyers.
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!
Part of
what I'm getting at (in the article and that most recent comment) is that «
gold farmers» are a socially - constructed category.