Virtual sweatshops. This is WoW.

This is messed up... It's just a game, it's not a re-life thing. People in China are killing themselves because they can't see the difference between Reailty and Virural Reailty. I think WoW is cool and all but this is taking gamming way too far...

I can't just understand, who can be so dumb paying real cash in order to raise a little their character. It loses the sense of game.

Kam
PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 6:52 am Post subject:
Eventually this will lead to whole online cities, and people will never leave the internet.

welcome to the Matrix

well what can i say... ?!?! it's just a theory but.. can't blizzard just add a new section in the lincse and game agreement. They could easely make buying of Virtual Gold (VG) with real money ($) ilegal (say hello to banning) and the license says stuff like "when you buy this game ..bla bla...you are not allowed to re-sell it for a different price...bla bla...it is consider ilegal" they could shot-down "factories of farming" because when they make an account they clearly agree to the license and rules/restricions of the game ?!

there is nothing rong in farming at home or with your friends and then giving money for items or valabuels (in-game). i don't know ...maybe im just crazy and talking shit ...but this is how i feel.

hope blizzard or anyone sane enough will stop them. besides it's bad for the people who farm too...if you ask me they are dependant on WoW as other are on drugs (countryes should protect theire population).

im shuting up now cause im talking shit....sry

it is already illegal. hundreds of characters on servers are trying to fight the battle by reporting over and over again. but blizzard just doesnt have a line to draw between 'chinese gold farmer' and 'player who needs gold'.

This Chines are crazy.... lol let then spend they're focking lives whit games, who cares? If they die in cyber cafes, AS BETTER! less stupid people in the world, and the game goes on for those who think.

You know it's really sad that people in China and Japan are ruining our view on the "Eastern" part of the world (i.e. Asia). I'm not saying that it's everyone in Asia, but it doesn't matter to most people because the only one's that do matter are the losers who are killing themselves, spending days/weeks in virtual cafes, and pulling stuff like this. I have nothing for or against Asia but the whole image of them being completely consumed by games is making them a joke to the modern world. I really wish that some people would quit acting so GD stupid but one thing I've learned is the thing about stupid people is you can always rely on them to pull the same thing even after they've been told against it. Don't get me wrong I know that there's people all around the world abusing games and how they should be a good thing, but the problem is that you don't read about anyone outside of China or Japan. It's stuff like this that just makes me wanna puke to see what we as a race are slowly going to become. And whether you believe me or not, virtual reality is next. It won't be soon, but when it does come, you can bet that it's gonna change a lot over the course of at least 50 years, and you can bet we'll be seeing things far worse than this.

On a brighter note, if anyone reading this knows who I am, than congrates: you've stayed in the community 8 months longer than I could.

DragonElement

I never play mmo rpgs though!

Acctually, I never play MMORPGS, hence the "Pay to play" Policy. I am actually the A team on my wrestling team, so I have a life outside the computer. I may love my computer games, but I stay fit with my exercises and weight-lifting. I study hard for school, and I try to make sure my life dont get sucked into the comp. So I do have a life outside of the CPU. Seems like the rest of you do. I just wish the chineese where off the WOW sometimes. I do know chineese that play it, but are still fit (like the wrestling coachs son). SO maybe it just in asia where this "addiction" is spreading...

Everyone who says that the Chinese are idiots because some people are killing themselves is wrong. An entire nation can't be viewed as idiots because of what idiots in the country have done.

This is hard for most people to understand as they cannot approach all perspectives of every side to a story. If I recall, Whitehorn made a remark about the USA being idiots. The USA holds a lot of idiots, but in the same way holds a lot of intelligent people. His statement was especially blunt as he does not even live in the country. In the same way, this relates to China and Japan representing most of Asia for many people especially the "Eastern" part of the world. Individuality is losing its definition.

And for the record, I'm not Asian.

I'm Asian but never stepped foot on Asian soil.

For the reference, the majority of the farmers you see are actually Indian instead of Chinease. I could bring up the article but meh a bit lazy.

I can understand the viewpoint that Asians now ruin. Unfortunately, Europe and America is different of course so I have my high doubts not everyone understands the Asian politics and so forth. Remember China is under Communist rule, and the game time limitation is enough of an example how Communism take away freedom (not that I support the idea but it's the truth.) And that being many of the Chinease gamers are poor.

Sounds like I'm bashing my own countrymen? I face the facts. Just camp or let their items sit in my mail for 30 days just to piss them off. It's just another matter that you have to find your way out of them.

Thats really sad...

Maybe its not the game problem at 100%. Maybe half of it is that they are under the influence of comunism, and it may be its too hard to live there for some people? So they run away to the virtual world.

The simple fact is that today you can make a business out of almost anything. This situation is the same as people selling porn. It's sick, it destroys people's lives and we can't stop it. However, these guys are making money. Others, even in the US are dying from too much computer playing and they don't make a penny.

I heared many third world countries do this also.
Thats y if u ever see a farmer and yell at them they start talkin in another language LOL

the sad thing is we can't stop it. As we speak there are ads for power leveling services on this very site.

EDIT:
Ads by Goooooogle Advertise on this site

Cheap WoW Gold
All Servers. Great Pricing. Instant Delivery. Visa, MC, PayPal
WoW.Ige.Com
WOW PowerLeveling Service
Get to level 60 in Days, not months World Of WarCraft - Safe & Secure
PowerLevelers.com

KamEventually this will lead to whole online cities, and people will never leave the internet.

Huxley... http://pc.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3140910&did=1

It's sad how people manipulate the minds of the poor into making them work these long hours for close to nothing. That is hardly enough to even survive in the modern world.