Oct 17, 2006, 10:46 AM // 10:46
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: London
Guild: Better Than Life (BTL)
Profession: R/
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Chinese gold farmers
An interesting article from the BBC News webpages about Chinese gold farming companies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5151916.stm
Although the article only mentions WoW farmers, it shows the scale of gold farming which is estimated to be worth $900 million a year and growing!
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Oct 17, 2006, 11:06 AM // 11:06
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Western Australia.
Guild: Crystal Mountain [CM]
Profession: W/
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Wow Oo
thats alot of $.
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Oct 17, 2006, 02:10 PM // 14:10
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: around the corner and up the block
Guild: Hero
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bah old news but it is an intresting amount of $ a year
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Oct 17, 2006, 02:11 PM // 14:11
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2005
Profession: Mo/Me
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I kicked anyone that bought gold in my old guild, too bad there was only 1 lol.
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Oct 17, 2006, 02:21 PM // 14:21
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Dec 2005
Guild: [Rage]
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While ive never done it personally, its obvious why, spend 50-60 hours farming 1 Mil? or spend one days work at macdonalds , its a no brainer for mr average joe
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Oct 17, 2006, 02:31 PM // 14:31
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: UK FTW
Profession: R/Mo
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oooh yeah but at Mc Donalds you can eat all the Sausage & Egg Mc Muffins, Hash Browns, Quarter Pounders with Cheese Deluxe, Chick Mc Nuggets, Large Fries and Curry Sauce that you like before they even open.
Maccy Dee's FTW
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Oct 17, 2006, 02:59 PM // 14:59
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#7
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Frost Gate Guardian
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tainek
While ive never done it personally, its obvious why, spend 50-60 hours farming 1 Mil? or spend one days work at macdonalds , its a no brainer for mr average joe
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That may be true, but most gold farmers use bots and leave the programme running while they go about doing other things, a nice way to make a bit of side income thats probably perfectly legal.. apart from the botting that is :S.
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Oct 17, 2006, 05:59 PM // 17:59
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Banned
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: England
Guild: VoB
Profession: Me/
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Quote:
oooh yeah but at Mc Donalds you can eat all the Sausage & Egg Mc Muffins, Hash Browns, Quarter Pounders with Cheese Deluxe, Chick Mc Nuggets, Large Fries and Curry Sauce that you like before they even open.
Maccy Dee's FTW
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Can I say eww....
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Oct 18, 2006, 07:31 AM // 07:31
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#10
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Wilds Pathfinder
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At first, Id almost say "cool", Im been payed to play! Dream come true! But i dont think the vision would hold long...
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Oct 18, 2006, 09:53 AM // 09:53
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#11
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Guildmistress Eve [Me], Guildmistress Azura [N], Guildmistress Azumi [A], Guildmistress Jaina [D]
Guild: Guildmaster Aeron [Rt], Arthas Ironfist [W], Guild: The Tyrian Templars [TTT]
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tainek
While ive never done it personally, its obvious why, spend 50-60 hours farming 1 Mil? or spend one days work at macdonalds , its a no brainer for mr average joe
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Ive been to China, they have macdonalds, but dont forget most chinese people only earn 15$ PER MONTH working on the 'regular' farm. Not everyone can get a job at the Mac, since there simply aint enough of them, so they go back to farming... gold. Which beats the 15 bucks per month. Another advantage is that they dont have to break their own backs farming on a real farm for 90+ hrs per week.
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Oct 18, 2006, 11:41 AM // 11:41
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Jun 2006
Profession: N/
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Skids
oooh yeah but at Mc Donalds you can eat all the Sausage & Egg Mc Muffins, Hash Browns, Quarter Pounders with Cheese Deluxe, Chick Mc Nuggets, Large Fries and Curry Sauce that you like before they even open.
Maccy Dee's FTW
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Franco
Can I say eww....
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Whats wrong with that, thats a perfectly balanced meal, although perhaps not all in 1 Bun like Skids likes to have it
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Oct 18, 2006, 11:52 AM // 11:52
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: The Netherlands
Profession: Mo/Me
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A balanced meal
I suppose by balance you mean that the total sugar and fat equals the rest of the food
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Oct 18, 2006, 12:04 PM // 12:04
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Lion's Arch Merchant
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hyro yamaguchi
A balanced meal
I suppose by balance you mean that the total sugar and fat equals the rest of the food
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Ketchup and fries are vegetables, right?
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Oct 18, 2006, 01:17 PM // 13:17
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Sep 2005
Profession: R/
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Healthy stuff there.... But yeah considering we are living in a society where sometimes money is thrown away just like that I think thats the reason why people buy things like that.
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Oct 18, 2006, 01:27 PM // 13:27
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Academy Page
Join Date: Sep 2006
Guild: The Spearmen [치치치치]
Profession: Me/
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Guildmaster Cain
Ive been to China, they have macdonalds, but dont forget most chinese people only earn 15$ PER MONTH working on the 'regular' farm. Not everyone can get a job at the Mac, since there simply aint enough of them, so they go back to farming... gold. Which beats the 15 bucks per month. Another advantage is that they dont have to break their own backs farming on a real farm for 90+ hrs per week.
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You aren't understanding what he's trying to say. He's saying that for a normal person, not a gold farmer, it's easier to spend $10 or $20 for gold ingame than farm for 90 hours to get it.
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Oct 18, 2006, 01:28 PM // 13:28
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Dec 2005
Guild: [Rage]
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Guildmaster Cain
Ive been to China, they have macdonalds, but dont forget most chinese people only earn 15$ PER MONTH working on the 'regular' farm. Not everyone can get a job at the Mac, since there simply aint enough of them, so they go back to farming... gold. Which beats the 15 bucks per month. Another advantage is that they dont have to break their own backs farming on a real farm for 90+ hrs per week.
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i was refering to average joe who Buys the gold
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Oct 18, 2006, 02:10 PM // 14:10
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#18
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Banned
Join Date: Aug 2006
Profession: N/
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I'm not going to go too deep into this or nothing, but I sell alot of ecto in Ascalon City Int D1 and I check from time to time to see exactly who is doing alot of the buying of "ebay" gold. I have a list and tally marks by how many times I see them there. I know for sure they are buying gold cause they are not spamming the trade channel and they are always in trade with level 1's and 2's with gibberish names. I am not going to name names, but several of them are regulars to guru and claim that their wealth was farmed by them. Some of them I have seen in there more than 5 times.
First off I want to say that I hate how the Chinese/Korean gold farmers have influenced the ingame market. I would just rather see them disappear or just focus on another game. What I hate worse than that is when people who claim they are such uber farmers and traders and that their wealth was accumulated on their own and you find out that they are complete liars. They act elite, but their wealth is all a lie. Just about anyone who plays this game can go and pay $50 or whatever it is for 1 mill gold, but when you try to act big and bad like you are hot shit on a forum and lie about the source of your gold that is just messed up. Its all about the instant gratification crowd that plays this game. ZOMG I MUST HAVE THAT Req 8 Crystalline sword right now, lemme just whip out the credit card and kaching you got one. The inherent mod update in Nightfalls is going to hurt the ebay market really badly if you ask me. Why buy millions in ebay gold when it is much easier to get the items you want without having to farm for hours and hours on end?
I guess what I'm saying is that I don't like what the ebay farmers have done to this game, but I can't stop it only ANet can. The other point is that if you buy gold don't try to act cool and lie and hide it. Just say you buy gold. I would love to see statistical data from some of these ebay stores and online gold services like Swagvault and the others out there. I think it would stun people out there thinking that the ebayers are not out of control. I am willing to bet that more than 50% of the GW population has paid for gold services. I am willing to bet that 90% of the richest players in the game ebayed 99% of the gold they have. You know I could be wrong on these numbers as I did pull them from out of the air, but wouldn't it be shocking if they were true. Looking at the available information out there on ebay farming these numbers may be a little on the conservative side.
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Oct 18, 2006, 02:21 PM // 14:21
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#19
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Banned
Join Date: Aug 2006
Profession: N/
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Also on occasion I have butted in to trade between ebay farmers and buyers and opened trade with the ebay farmer and they have traded me a few hundred k without realizing it and then when they do they start cussing me out in broken english. It is actually pretty easy to do. When you see a level 1 or 2 running toward a level 20 in Ascalon City Int 1 just click on them and after a few seconds start clicking the trade button until it opens for you and they will accidentally trade you 100k. Do it until they catch on and then put them on ignore. I have made about a mill or so doing that over the past month.
Edit: If you hate ebay farmers as much as I do you should try this.
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Oct 18, 2006, 02:34 PM // 14:34
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#20
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: England
Profession: N/R
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DeathByAmor
I'm not going to go too deep into this or nothing, but I sell alot of ecto in Ascalon City Int D1 and I check from time to time to see exactly who is doing alot of the buying of "ebay" gold. I have a list and tally marks by how many times I see them there. I know for sure they are buying gold cause they are not spamming the trade channel and they are always in trade with level 1's and 2's with gibberish names. I am not going to name names, but several of them are regulars to guru and claim that their wealth was farmed by them. Some of them I have seen in there more than 5 times.
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You mean the level 1's and 2's with gibberish names that are used to store weapons? If I venture into Ascalon Inter low level characters trade me out of the blue, showing 6-7 unid weapons. Not every person trading with level 1's and 2's buy gold.
I would love to see your list if you would be so nice as to PM me a copy. (You have my word it will never go public or be viewed by anybodies eyes but mine, and my cat's)
Why would a Gold farmer representing a company trade you with such a crabby looking character? They would obviously use a Mo/W with black dyed tattoos or Fissure armour... Wouldn't you say?
Quote:
Originally Posted by DeathByAmor
Also on occasion I have butted in to trade between ebay farmers and buyers and opened trade with the ebay farmer and they have traded me a few hundred k without realizing it and then when they do they start cussing me out in broken english. It is actually pretty easy to do. When you see a level 1 or 2 running toward a level 20 in Ascalon City Int 1 just click on them and after a few seconds start clicking the trade button until it opens for you and they will accidentally trade you 100k. Do it until they catch on and then put them on ignore. I have made about a mill or so doing that over the past month.
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Also, nice method of claiming your own Ebay money!
Last edited by Legolas Ravenwood; Oct 18, 2006 at 02:39 PM // 14:39..
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