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This won't change anything. Gold farmers already evade China's national firewall in order to access international game servers. Most of the currency the farmer

by henning 17y ago

This won't change anything. Gold farmers already evade China's national firewall in order to access international game servers. Most of the currency the farmers sell is stolen from hacked accounts obtained by malware that the farmers actively spread for the express purpose of hijacking in-game currency. The rest is obtained by bots that they run en masse which really mess up the game for everyone else. Do you really think they'd sit there for 14 hours a day pounding away at buttons, earn their gold/gil/whatever legit, and sell the fruits of their labors? No way.

ArcticCelt 17y ago
>Do you really think they'd sit there for 14 hours a day pounding away at buttons, earn their gold/gil/whatever legit, and sell the fruits of their labors? No way. Gold farming is a real business model in china. Research it you will be surprised. Youtube video on Chinese Gold Farmers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho5Yxe6UVv4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho5Yxe6UVv4 "Estimates of 400,000 people working in China on gold farming/trading are seen as very realistic, and the number could be 500,000 up to 1,000,000" http://virtual-economy.org/blog/update_on_chinese_gold_farming http://virtual-economy.org/blog/update_on_chinese_gold_farmi...
froo 17y ago
The rest is obtained by bots that they run en masse which really mess up the game for everyone else. Back when I played wow, I could have sworn that there were a few botters that would use something like Auctioneer to make money by buying things that were undervalued for resale. So I tested out my theory (this was just post-BC) I created several dummy characters on my account and loaded them up with spare boar meats that I had farmed. 2 boar meats for 100 gold, so 50 gold a pop. I would constantly send the meats to newly created characters and start putting them on the auction house, 50 gold each. What this did was over the period of a week and maybe 15 characters (I'm not sure the actual number), I artificially raised the perceived value of the meats, so when I started putting them up for 200 gold for each stack of 10, I literally couldn't farm enough of them to keep them in stock as they were always bought by the same couple of people (botters?). The botters aren't infallible, you can break them - but I do agree that it's hard to compete with a 24x7 player, especially when you only played 2 hours at night yourself.

by henning 17y ago

ArcticCelt 17y ago

>Do you really think they'd sit there for 14 hours a day pounding away at buttons, earn their gold/gil/whatever legit, and sell the fruits of their labors? No way. Gold farming is a real business model in china. Research it you will be surprised. Youtube video on Chinese Gold Farmers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho5Yxe6UVv4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho5Yxe6UVv4 "Estimates of 400,000 people working in China on gold farming/trading are seen as very realistic, and the number could be 500,000 up to 1,000,000" http://virtual-economy.org/blog/update_on_chinese_gold_farming http://virtual-economy.org/blog/update_on_chinese_gold_farmi...

froo 17y ago

The rest is obtained by bots that they run en masse which really mess up the game for everyone else. Back when I played wow, I could have sworn that there were a few botters that would use something like Auctioneer to make money by buying things that were undervalued for resale. So I tested out my theory (this was just post-BC) I created several dummy characters on my account and loaded them up with spare boar meats that I had farmed. 2 boar meats for 100 gold, so 50 gold a pop. I would constantly send the meats to newly created characters and start putting them on the auction house, 50 gold each. What this did was over the period of a week and maybe 15 characters (I'm not sure the actual number), I artificially raised the perceived value of the meats, so when I started putting them up for 200 gold for each stack of 10, I literally couldn't farm enough of them to keep them in stock as they were always bought by the same couple of people (botters?). The botters aren't infallible, you can break them - but I do agree that it's hard to compete with a 24x7 player, especially when you only played 2 hours at night yourself.