Monday, April 11, 2011

How many gold farmers in the world?

Many more expected than there knew that the gold farming, an activity that is to collect items and money in persistent worlds online to get real money, is a widespread practice, especially in some Asian countries, but we did not know what. It is the World Bank to have clarified the issue with a study on the matter.

It seems that between China and Vietnam there is the beauty of a hundred thousand human beings engaged in gold farming, which accounts for 30% of the market for virtual goods. The report also estimated that such an influx of money would do well to regions where they are concentrated farmer, despite the extreme extension of the practice is a problem for publishers.

Source: Kotaku

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