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Thirtyseven - 06.03.2006, 08:09On Gold Farmers
<b>...this is another opinion posted about gold farmers. I found it over on <a href="http://wowvault.ign.com/">WoW Vault</a> and thought it was also worth considering. It's a slightly different view from the other piece, but still asks, who is really to blame?</b> - Thirtyseven
<span class="pageheader">On Gold Farmers</span><br>
By <a href="mailto:arwentoo_interhogan@yahoo.com">Trinity Divine</a>
Consider these facts. Last year, Blizzard announced that it banned over 1,000 accounts that were believed to belong to professional “gold farmers”, people who make a living out of selling in-game items and gold on the Internet for real money. Last month, an article appeared on the <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/08/business/gaming.php"> International Herald Tribune </a> and the New York Times, exposing the flourishing operations in China, that hire approximately 100,000 young people to play MMOs for the purpose of earning in-game currency which is then sold on virtual goods trading sites. In the face of increasing antagonism from players, who blame the gold farmers for virtually every problem that besets the Ironforge Auction House, including the lag, the clandestine sub-culture survives.
Are the gold farmers wrecking WoW’s economy? Are they causing inflation and sending prices on the Auction House to the sky? Or are they just a nuisance, bugging mages for water, bread and a teleport, and hogging all the good farming spawn spots? Do they justly deserve the contempt with which we treat them?
Not surprisingly, forum opinions range from negative to neutral. The ones who do feel some sympathy for the farmers are reluctant to express their views openly, perhaps because the issue of farming is directly related to the virtual goods trading issue, a direct violation of Blizzard’s Terms of Use.
Let’s examine some of the issues.
<b>1) Farmers Are Annoying</b>
They randomly send you whispers asking for “120 water and 120 bread please”. They spam the trade channel when they are hawking their wares. They camp spawn spots and are “ninja looters/skinners”. They dominate areas like Tyr’s Hand and grief other players, driving them out of the area. These are just a few of the complaints that fill post after post in forums, rants that frequently border on racism. To be sure, there are those who say that they have personally met and grouped with a few of the hated farmers and found them to be pleasant, courteous and helpful. Logically, given Blizzard’s disposition towards farmer accounts, you would think that they would prefer to stay under the GMs’ radar and thus not cause other players any grief. Obviously, the smart ones are the ones who choose to befriend rather than antagonize others.
<b>2) Racism in a Land of Elves and Orcs</b>
At the heart of all the hatred against professional gold farmers is the fact that most of them cannot speak English. A majority of the “virtual goods farms” are in China (some have also been reported in Romania, Indonesia and Mexico), leading to the derogatory term “Chinese farmer” which is more often than not used to describe the professional gold farmer, Chinese or otherwise. This causes resentment among legitimate Chinese players for the racial slur, and among other non-English speaking players on American servers for reported discrimination due to their inability to speak English fluently. The oft repeated comment “Why play on American servers if you can’t speak English?” has been likened to the clearly racist “Go back to China!”
<b>3) Farmers Cause Inflation</b>
And finally there’s the issue of inflation. Price hikes on the Auction House have been blamed on the farmers, but to me this doesn’t make sense. First of all, farmers flood the market with goods, so shouldn’t that bring the prices down instead of causing them to go up? Secondly, according to reports, these farmers operate independently and are given quotas that they must meet at the end of their 12-hour shifts, at which time the accounts would be turned over to others who have to meet similar quotas. Therefore, for the most part, they do not sell their goods on the Auction House, preferring to strike bargains with individual players through the Ironforge Trade Channel. Frequently, they even undersell their goods just so they can have the money rather than pass it on to the person taking over the account for the next shift. Of course, the 400-800 gold each farmer takes out of the game at the end of the day has the potential for making it back in when someone buys it from a gold trader. If these transactions bring back all the gold that leaves the game through the farmers, then that would definitely cause inflation. Which means that in-game inflation is eventually caused by those who buy WoW gold and not by those who farm them!
Now that brings me to the point I want to make: gold farmers exist because people want them to. The practice of selling virtual goods and MMO accounts has long been in existence. The difference is that now, instead of individuals, we have organized businessmen running the show. I do believe though, that the proliferation of virtual goods farmers is the effect rather than the cause. They exist because the demand is there. As long as there are players who patronize them, who are willing to spend real dollars to buy their in-game toys, you and I will have to live with the farmers.
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