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Chinese prisoners forced to play games to earn credits for guards
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article published on 26 May, 2011
Prisoners in Chinese labour camps were forced to play online games for hours to make money for the guards.
The practice of excessively playing online games to build up virtual currency (or other virtually valuable assets) is known as "gold farming", and it is particularly rampant in China where estimates put as many as 100,000 gold farmers throughout the region.
Liu Dali, a former ... [ read the full article ]
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26. May 2011 @ 21:56 |
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that's just screwed up, at least give them something fun to play. the same said equivalent would be locking up an inmate in the hold and playing the mr. rogers "its a wonder full day in the neighbor hood" intro music for 1 week strait.
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26. May 2011 @ 22:32 |
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Seems a good bit better than breaking rocks with a sledge hammer if you ask me...and it is great proof that communism is dead, at least in china.
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Naferion
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27. May 2011 @ 01:05 |
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So China prison guards are the gold farmers, no wonder i see trade chat spammed so much by gold farmers, no wonder i have to buy an authenticator, they more then likely have hackers as well hacking people accounts to get gold to sell, but isn't much you can do about it, Blizzard has already gone after pay pal accounts for it, but soon as one goes down, up goes another. Any WoW related site has an ad for a gold farmer. It sucks but it's one of those things that's hard to regulate.
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27. May 2011 @ 04:45 |
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Blizzard needs to start selling gold...undermining all the farmers, and saving a lot of server bandwidth. It would be a nice payday too...and it isn't like they would change the user experience much; people can buy gold anyway.
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27. May 2011 @ 04:52 |
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what is happen??Forced? The game is to be voluntary.
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xtago
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27. May 2011 @ 07:11 |
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The problem comes from those people who simply cash out to get what ever they want in a game.
Bit like killing animals for fur if people didn't buy the stuff then there'd be no money in it, therefore no one would bother doing it.
Just the same reason someone will mug someone for the wallet that hopefully has cash in it.
If money can be made via doing something then it'll happen.
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hearme0
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27. May 2011 @ 12:42 |
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No no no no no NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
Please don't make me play Battlefield BC2 for hours on end. Please NOOOOOOOO, the horror ;)
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hearme0
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27. May 2011 @ 12:43 |
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Originally posted by pupnelson:
what is happen??Forced? The game is to be voluntary.
BTW.......you're signature is cryptic and lame.
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27. May 2011 @ 18:35 |
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I love this story. :D
Oh, Im sorry... Did the middle of my sentence interrupt the beginning of yours?
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27. May 2011 @ 19:03 |
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I would just get rid of the game. And that will stop it.
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dEwMe
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28. May 2011 @ 12:46 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
Blizzard needs to start selling gold...undermining all the farmers, and saving a lot of server bandwidth. It would be a nice payday too...and it isn't like they would change the user experience much; people can buy gold anyway.
They should go to a "free to play" format like DODOnline has. Free to play the basic game but can buy all kinds of stuff from them including gold and expansions...
Just my $0.02,
dEwMe
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