Chinese Gold Farmers

     Most people who plays MMO's or Massive Multiplayer Online games play it for fun. Being lost into a virtual world where you can do anything you want can be lots of fun for some people. Besides from that, there are players who aren't actually player but instead they turn the game into a day to day job

     In China, there are a few companies in the game World of Warcraft hiring over 100,000 workers to play the game and earn in game currency. They work 10 hours long boring hours a day with only 3 days off a week averaging 30 cents an hour. The job requires you to play the game killing as much monsters as possible and collecting the "drops" which usually is the in game currency or items which can later on be sold. The gold is then transferred the boss which sells them to an online retailer (eBay or amazon)  and from there on players around the world can purchase the fake currency for around 20 dollars a batch. Overall the whole industry accumulates a net worth of 135 million dollars as the annual wealth.

    Even though gold farmers in general are frowned upon by the gaming community  a job is a job.  Trolls, or players who horse play, constantly interfere with the process which only makes the job that much harder. Not only that the hours and repetitive work is already miserable enough. I feel that people shouldn't have to do jobs they dont like but wheb that's the only option they have at that moment then let them be. They have it bad enough.