New Job for China’s Migrant Workers: Virtual Gold Farmers
Virtual gold farmers that is. According to a report I read in NVR Magazine, about 100,000 workers — the majority who are from rural areas — get paid about US$0.30/hour to kill monsters and collect gold in the game World of War Craft. They then sell it to foreign game players in what is supposedly a US$1.8 million a year gray market business.
Unfortunately with success like this comes backlash. There’s a class action law suit in the US again virtual gold-selling firm IGE (not sure if this company is Chinese or not as the article didn’t say) and Youtube has a tons anti-Chinese gold farmer videos.
Is This another sign of a general ant-Chinese fever gathering in the US.
J.
Update: According to Tricia Wang at Youmeiti, there is a documentary about Chinese Gold Farmers now available.
