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_ Reality-Challenged _ Chinese Kids Forced to farm for Gold in WOW (I4U)
Posted by: Yahoo! News
Chinese kids are forced to play World of Warcraft 12 hours per day to earn virtual money for Gold Farming companies and gangs. It is known for a while that there companies in China and other countries that pay workers to play WOW to generate virtual...
Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/wikipedia/SIG=117s33ogm/*http%3A//www.i4u.com/article6778.html
Posted by: Somey
Is this for real? I just assumed it was a hoax or a practical joke at first, but after following some of the links, it seems it might not be.
Amazing...
Posted by: Cobalt
Sadly its probably true, and I wouldn't even need to read the article to debate it in my mind. If you go to eBay and search for http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&from=R10&satitle=world+of+warcraft+gold&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=30005&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search&fgtp= you end up with 517 results...
Posted by: Somey
Damn!
I'm not easily non-plussed, and I don't usually have those "what's this world coming to" reactions that a lot of people have about things that happen on the internet, but this takes the cake! I'm even setting up a new SubForum for articles like this... Technically it's not all that relevant to Wikipedia, but I couldn't bear to have it languish in the "Less Relevant" subforum.
On the other hand, http://forumz.tomshardware.com/games/WoW-Communities-Fragile-ftopict35359.html. How much you wanna bet he's cheerfully helping to prop up the Chinese cyber-slave labor economy?
I've written about stuff like this on Uncyclopedia, ferchrissakes. I had no idea people were actually doing things like this! So in a world where this stuff can really go on, how long until the Chinese start working up Wikipedia admin accounts and selling those too? And http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=470?
Posted by: guy
how long until the Chinese start working up Wikipedia admin accounts and selling those too?
What makes you think they aren't already?
Posted by: Somey
Nothing! In fact, the existence of User:Cyde suggests that they started doing it several months ago.