And, even better than that, she's getting real money arriving in her PayPal account as a reward to boot. The naive Anda initially believes she's going after bots, but even after she realises she is wiping out real players, Sarge persuades her that they deserve it and Anda is simply doing every other Coarsegold player a favour. Prisoners in Chinese labour camps have been forced to engage in gold farming for the financial benefit of prison authorities.' Righty-o.Ĭonsequently, the act of gold farming is generally frowned upon and real world bounties are indeed placed on the heads of specific groups of gold farmers, often at the behest of other nearby competing gold farmers obviously. When organized as an actual informal business, they are known as gaming workshops. Gold farming in China is done in Internet cafes, abandoned warehouses, small offices and private homes.
Gold farming for the uninitiated is defined by Wikipedia as 'playing a massively multiplayer online game to acquire in-game currency that other players purchase in exchange for real-world money.' And apparently again according to Wikipedia 'gold farming in the People's Republic of China is more pervasive than in any other country, as 80% of all gold farmers are in mainland China, with a total of 100,000 full-time gold farmers in the country as of far back as 2005. At first they undertake the usual levelling up antics battling monsters, but then Sarge gets wind of a way to make some cash in the real world, by assassinating gold farmers. Assuaging her mum's well-meaning concerns about her playing games on the internet with complete strangers, Anda convinces her mum to use her credit card to sign her up, and promptly enthusiastically dives into the online world, making firm friends with another newbie called Sarge. It's not the main thrust of this story, the fact the main character Anda joins a guild created by ladies for ladies only, so they can feel confident enough to play female characters online, but it does firmly ground the story in reality for sure.Īnda our heroine is blown away by the presentation at her school and offer by renowned gamer Liza McCombs to join her Coarsegold clan as a probationary member. Highly topical in the light of the recent #gamergate controversy, I must say. I don't play MMORPGs so I was unaware that the vast majority of female gamers apparently don't play female characters online, basically through not wanting to be harassed by men-children. In game, they call me the Lizanator, Queen of the Spacelanes, El Presidente of the Clan Fahrenheit. This is Coarsegold Online, the fastest growing massive multiplayer role-playing game with over 10 million subscribers worldwide.
I organise a guild online and I'm looking for a few of you chickens to join me.
0 kommentar(er)
