I do quite a but of online gaming. I've been playing World of Warcraft for about eight or so years now- also some other games on the side, just kind of dabbling here and there. Any who, gold farming is a subject without a lot of lore behind in within the gaming community. It's a VERY quick solution to not having enough in game currency. However, a lot of the drawbacks to it is that many mobs, and monster within in the game being farmed hinder players from sometimes being able to farm materials themselves and even sometimes complete their quest within the game, and that can deter some players from continuing with their subscription.
Blizzard, Nexon, EA and other large businesses have made counterattacks to try to stop the flow of farmed currency within their games. Many players can be banned from their servers, as well as loose the gold that they had just spend real money on and in more severe cases have their IP addresses locked down so the game can no longer be accessed from their home devices,
After watching the video on the living standards and workplace of a Chinese gold farmer- it's kind of shocking. While half the team slaves away on computers doing mundane task for hours at a time attempting to collect gold, the other half of the team is set up in cots in what look like poorly maintained college dorms.
In my experience- gold farming has never hindered my game play and I'll admit to using their services a handful of time. I good chunk of in-game currency for a couple U.S. dollar doesn't sound like a bad trade off to me- although I can understand where this may effect players than do spend a lot of their time providing the same service within the game so to speak (i.e. farming materials and such) because their is a lot of competition.
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