World of Warcraft has over 200 thousand Asians playing just for Westerners

[IChing]

100 thousand in china alone play the game as a business they get westerners gold, armor and status.
You go to sites that come from China and buy imaginary gold, armor and status.
Just goggle World of Warcraft and look at gold in the advs. to the right of the screen

[wildhorses]

1. why??

:shrug:

[ikojo]

2. So that when the characters can be in the game

24/7. When the American is asleep or at work/school, the character isn't dormant. Proves some people have too much money. .

[billyskank]

3. Because some westerners are willing to pay for it

Why slog for years to achieve the status of double freaking kick ass wizard when you can buy it off some Chinese kid who's already played it for you, specifically for the purpose of selling it.

Crazy, huh? :D

[wildhorses]

4. its a mad, mad, mad, mad, mad world in which we live!!

:crazy:

[TimeChaser]

5. And it completly fucks up the ingame economy

:grr:

The guild I run, and the guilds my friends run or help run, never allow players who buy gold or characters.

[IChing]

6. I have been crack free of WOW since the beginning of August.

I got disenchanted because of the farming and gold buying. I had skinning skills and saw the price for skins go down to nothing because of the farming.
I might play after the update, I was traveling when I quit

My neighbor who turned me on to the game has a boyfriend she met within the game and is going fly out to Tennessee to visit him soon and are talking marriage. College schools of business look at WOW as something much more than a game.

Here is the article on Asian farming for on-line games.

gold Farms` Fuel `net Gamers` Fever

SHANGHAI, China, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Workers cram Shanghai sweatshops, glued to computers while getting paid to play online games around-the-clock for virtual gold.

The phenomenon known as gold farming is replacing the stereotypical Chinese sweatshop, the Times of London said Saturday. Owners of the 'gold farms' sell the virtual loot to cash-rich, time-poor Westerners for real money.

Gold farmers spend most of their waking hours at a computer, deep in the three-dimensional virtual worlds known as massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). An estimated 13 million paying players means this is one of the hottest areas of the Internet. Millions of people play these games around the clock -- building palaces, slaughtering monsters or simply hanging out in virtual nightclubs and coffee bars, the Times said.

Ge Jin, a PhD student at the University of California in San Diego, filmed a gold farm for a documentary on the economics of Internet gaming, the Times said. The filmmaker said he believed hundreds of thousands of people in China are now dependent on gold farming for their income.

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/business/article_1204248.php/Business_Roundup