Gold farming

Gold Farmer (also gold farmer or China Farmer ) is the name for Gamer, the fee (some full-time ) are employed for to produce about in online role- playing large amounts of game currency or other in-game items to sell them outside of the game to other players. Alternatively, " leveling " she pawns or player character to sell the appropriate accounts, so play it by the lower levels of the game.

Richard Heeks, professor at the University of Manchester, writes of about 400,000 people living in 2008 by Goldfarming. 80 percent of the players lived in China, the whole market had a value of $ 500 million.

Since it is time-consuming to develop game characters of extensive games such as Online RPGs, these services can fetch high prices in Internet auctions.

For many Chinese people with no education, this is a dream job. However, often occur secondary health damages. In addition, there are always cases where in the People's Republic of China adolescents and prisoners are forced to play. Their passports are often taken as the pressure medium.

In the U.S. and in the UK it is now illegal to sell through online auctions account right, but not the rest of Europe, Asia and Australia.

The Chinese government has decided on 30 June 2009 to ban the virtual currency trade and oppose.