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Topic: Gold Farming: The Documentary (Read 4963 times)
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Yoru
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Saw this on TN and Slashdot earlier today; I'm kind of surprised no one's posted it here. It's a preview of a documentary on Gold Farming, being done by Ge Jin, a UCSD Ph.D student. Relatively interesting, although I wonder how many shops are the little 5-guys-in-an-apartment setups like the one featured at the end, and how many are the soulless-looking office grindfactories featured towards the center. I'm looking forward to seeing the full video when it's done. |
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HaemishM
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That makes me want to cockslap every one of the filthy bastards who set up these little sweatshops. I don't blame the farmers, since it's probably a better life for them than working in a factory. I blame the shitstains from over here who farm that shit out.
I'm looking at you IGE.
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Strazos
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The powerlevelers are even worse. At one point I calculated that they work for about $1/hour.
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Fear the Backstab!
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Yegolev
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That's a lot of money in Chinese rubles.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Heresiarch
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I say, hurrah for anything that helps increase the standard of living throughout the world. Well, they might not be able to afford shirts, but at least they can buy cigarettes.
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Signe
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They don't look like little sweatshops to me. They look like dorms with college drop-out stoners prolonging their childhood while making pin money. I don't see it lasting, however. I'm sure Big Business will swallow them all up eventually. They won't be able to compete.
I bet those rooms smell like boy feet. :-(
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HaemishM
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I bet those rooms smell like boy feet. :-(
And desperation. |
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schild
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I bet those rooms smell like boy feet. :-( And desperation. You know, in 1985 some guy bottled "desperation." He called his company Nissin. He called his product "Cup Noodle." |
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Nija
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Here's my own little gold farmer documentary.  Here's the hauler telling us his monthly wages. We petitioned and pointed at this screenshot, and the hauler and his 4 miner bees haven't been online in days! I miss stealing their ore though. |
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schild
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Eve does not seem like an effective game to farm in. Too many time constraints and way too many cockblocks. The only place WORTH farming right now is WoW. Every other game put together doesn't have as many morons willing to buy gold as WoW does.
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Nija
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...and far less competition, I'd wager.
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tazelbain
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It looks pretty big based on how small eve is.
Does this pretty prove that PvP isn't a solution to farming?
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JoeTF
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Wow, WTF?!
Amount of offer doubled and price increased a little last time I checked it. That's pretty weird, I expected to see this market totally dead by now. Guess that 0.2$/1mlnISK is how much chinese food cost these days:D
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HaemishM
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It looks pretty big based on how small eve is.
Does this pretty prove that PvP isn't a solution to farming?
Eve's not that small anymore. We're talking about 100,000 accounts. |
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