http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3141815Last month we showed you some of the scammers and crooks that lurk in MMO games. Now, let's go into the field for a firsthand account of another part of the online underworld.
"Sack" is the only name I'm given for the person I'm supposed to contact. He lives in the Fujian province of China, but his place of business is online—he plays Lineage II. He's paid about
56 cents an hour :o to work in a videogame "sweatshop."
How does it work? The macros for World of WarCraft, for example, control a high-level hunter and cleric. The hunter kills while the cleric automatically heals. Once they are fully loaded with gold and items, the "farmer" who's monitoring their progress manually controls them out of the dungeon to go sell their goods. These automated agents are then returned to the dungeons to do their thing again. Sack's typical 12-hour sessions can earn his employers as much as
$60,000 per month (Jem: WTF AM I DOING WRONG??? I am in the wrong buisness!) while he walks away with a measly $150.
Read more at the link....
And then this read is good...
http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/boa...essage.id=46049I like what he says here....
Some new servers were recently started up. I joined in for the fun, let me tell you what happened.
in less than a week the overseas sweatshop gold farmers were level 60, in less than two weeks many regular players were level 60, in less than three weeks to a month you had end game raids starting out. That's a full complement of 10 to 60 people of varying classes getting end game equipment --- and also having endgame crafting ability in about two to three weeks. the kicker is also this --- in my time on this server every single person I met had level 60s on another server. every single person. that's not one new customer. WoW is surviving by eating it's own tail.