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Oct 16, 2006, 02:40 AM // 02:40
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Grotto Attendant
Join Date: May 2005
Location: in the midline
Profession: E/Mo
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The sorry state of Chinese gold farmers
Online games are either played in sweatshop, 24/7 gaming:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5151916.stm They shutdown internet cafes so that people will not suffer addiction: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchin...ent_706689.htm |
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Oct 16, 2006, 03:49 AM // 03:49
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Richmond, British Columbia, Kanada
Guild: Demon of the Fall [Opet]
Profession: Mo/Me
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Hm, even each Chinese Gold Farmer plays 5-10 hours a day. Now, some people play more than that as a past-time, not earning any money in any way.
Creepy. As for the workers: $100 dollars a month = wtf. 10 hours a day 30 days a month approx. 300 hours played. They're making..33 cents an hour? o.o |
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Oct 16, 2006, 08:08 AM // 08:08
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Aug 2005
Guild: DVDF(Forums)
Profession: Me/N
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Not defending botting one bit, but for some countries $100 a month is loads. Given the choice between hard manual labour(and I mean hard) for half the amount and playing computer games I know what I would choose. To these guys they dont care about the state of the game, economy all they know is that they and their kids get fed and they wont die a premature death in some sodden rice field.
I guess the in game gold sweat shops are the same sort of thing as the cheap jeans/pumps.coffee etc sweatshops We should'nt be giving them out trade any more than in game gold ones. Tho it does bring the thought of 'fair trade' gold farms up. Hmm Last edited by Shanaeri Rynale; Oct 16, 2006 at 10:16 AM // 10:16.. |
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Oct 16, 2006, 09:36 AM // 09:36
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Pre-Searing Cadet
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Belleair Bluffs, Florida, USA
Profession: E/R
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I agree with the guy above me
 ^^. Their way of living is nothing like ours to begin with. To them that money is enough to support their family easily. So, while we probably couldn't imagine living on $100 a month....they do it easily...I wouldn't mind playing video games all day  .... I'd also rather not pay 950 a month in rent plus utilities, so on and so forth....*contemplates moving* ^^hehe
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Oct 16, 2006, 10:25 AM // 10:25
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Polar Bear Attendant
Join Date: May 2005
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u call that "playing all day" ?
 they re supposed to run the same thing for hours each day, huh how long before u got sick of running elona in GW ?
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Oct 16, 2006, 10:27 AM // 10:27
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Pre-Searing Cadet
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Belleair Bluffs, Florida, USA
Profession: E/R
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Oct 16, 2006, 10:30 AM // 10:30
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Polar Bear Attendant
Join Date: May 2005
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huh well dunno what it has to do with the topic here ^^
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