There are also people in lower wage countrys who will be paid like 5 bucks an hour to "gold farm." It pretty much means they are given access to a player's account, and they log in and collect money all day for that player. I wish I had an example of this somewhere, but I have yet to find a site for any of them.
----- Original Message ----- From: "ari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:59 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Interesting thing I heard > Hi gamers, > I found this quite interesting. I was listening to On Screen from the BBC > World Service, and their was a feature in their about how people sell > virtual items in multi-player online games for real money! What I mean is, > say now some of us were playing a strategy game. I've managed to > accumulate > many weapons, and huge wealth. I then go onto ebay and put my > game-acumulated wealth up for auction, and a person who wants prestige in > the game buys it from me with cash! They say their are now game players > who > deliberately just collect certain items and large stocks to sell for cash. > They say it's actually become a million-dollar industry. I suppose players > would be furious if the developer reset the server! It's nearly about as > weird as that guy who's selling land on the moon. > Ari > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. > > > > __________ NOD32 1.1612 (20060621) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
