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submitted by MakiMaki on 08/09/2008

WoW, it’s not a game; it’s a lifestyle.

Well, now it’s an economic activity - or has been for some time.  Individuals in developing countries farm virtual currency and exchange it for real currency.  It’s business.

It’s interesting to see the social effects of an online MMORPG; just how “real” it becomes.  Example, some gamers feel strongly against gold farming and kill the in-game characters of gold farmers.

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“Gold farming” is the practice of purposely playing an online multiplayer game so as to earn in-game currency that can then be sold to other players for real currency. Richard Heeks’s new paper “‘Real-World Production in Developing Countries for the Virtual Economies of Online Games’ is the first to study gold farming from a development perspective

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