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China used prisoners as gold farmers
- GrandMasterBirt 15y agoScary. Just scary. I guess it does not matter what it is, anything can be turned into a horrific punishment and exploited.
- Luyt 15y agoThe solution is simple: Don't buy virtual gold. And Blizzard should be way more vigilant in shutting down accounts which do so. Virtual Gold has become cheaper and cheaper over time (you can't fail to notice this, if you're standing around in a city you see all communication channels spammed with offers, which mention current pricing). If we assume the Law of Supply and Demand works for the virtual gold economy too, we could conclude that supply is rising, and vice-versa that Blizzard is not doing enough to stop the suppliers and gold farmers.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoPerhaps someone ought to start a service that verifies that your online gold was ethically obtained. Then again, people buying gold in online games probably don't care very much.
- ChuckMcM 15y ago"Fair Trade" WoW Gold, not that is a confluence of rackets. Given the information Blizzard has about gold creation and spending there isn't any reason they couldn't algorithmically 'fix' this problem both from the buyers and the sellers perspective.
- pavel_lishin 15y agoCharles Stross's commentary, though it doesn't really add all that much: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/05/cruel-and-unusual-punishment.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/05/cruel-an...