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Immunity

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Posted: Wed, 24th Aug 2005 16:52 Post subject: An Interesting Article on MMORPG Farming...	Quick Quote Quote

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3141815 An extremely interesting article written on the underground world of MMORPG farming. Highly recommend a read. Its pretty short, 2 pages, and has pictures to boot. Guarentee you will learn some figures that will fuckin astound you. Christ, a 500 million dollar grossing industry. Are people really THAT fuckin lazy as to buy so much gold? Sad times we live in. What's funny is how everyone believes that the gaming industry is against that sort of thing...when in reality, they couldn't care less. Hell, Sony Online Entertainment, in an effort to take business away from these wholesalers, just recently launched its own "legitimate" auction service for EQ2. I realize this is no different from the poor bastards making our sneakers in Asia, but I thought it was time to dispel the "Oh, I don't have the time to fully experience an MMO, but buying gold/char/items is a legitimate and harmless way for me to get get the most out of the game" myth. Well, you're supporting yet another venue of rich pricks exploiting those less fortunate. Thoughts on the issue?

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CLDragon

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Posted: Wed, 24th Aug 2005 18:25 Post subject:

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"Ten computers? We have 100 employees for one game!" laughs "Sell." Sell is a recent graduate from Nanjing University. At 24, he's a manager for Vpgamesell, a large SWG Chinese farming center that wholesales to popular resellers.

woah i was born in Nanjing :O

this isn't really news for me, i heard about this a LONG time ago...

and thats when i realized what my dream job is.. lol j/k

JBrow
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Posted: Wed, 24th Aug 2005 19:39 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

yea this is kinda old but o well, loosers pay for pixels lolz!! -JB xfire- jbrow

nightlith

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Posted: Thu, 25th Aug 2005 02:04 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Hey buddy...yah you. Wanna buy a car? Cheap! Only $500! Of course, you'll only get to drive it on a computer, and you'll need an internet connection too. And I can't guarantee you'll get to keep it. But man...look at the way the dynamic light reflect off it. Real time shadows too. She's a real beauty. Only $500. C'mon what do you say? I'm glad people can make millions of dollars sitting in front of a pc playing video games. It bodes well for the future of our society. I mean, we can have robots doing all our jobs for us, while we make money hand over fist selling fake things to each other, using money that won't hold much value when the world is overrun by sentient AI All kidding aside. Someone needs to clue in the IRS and charge some of these college students back taxes for the hundreds of thousands of dollars they made and haven't claimed on their tax forms I'd love to see their faces! i can has computar?!

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