Chinese Prisoners Forced to Farm MMO Gold
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Did anyone who finds this funny read what the guy was imprisoned for? trying to call the government out on its corruption. The guy is a political prisoner, not some ne'er do well caught with his hand in the pie! Imo that takes away any humor in the situation. I thank my lucky stars daily i wasn't born in that awful place...
So not only are they trying to destroy our economy, they're trying to destroy our video games economies?
Perhaps I should hire me 10-20 illegal aliens and try to compete with Chinas prices!
Perhaps I should hire me 10-20 illegal aliens and try to compete with Chinas prices!
Because that's worked out SO well for America in the past.DanDeFool said:
OT: Just add another entry in China's extensive list of human rights violations. Being forced to grind virtual gold in prison is so fucked up a concept that it belongs in a William S. Burroughs novel.
well.... i guess when they leave they will have good WOW characters...
really kind of sad though. i can't make 1 gold in a week on that game when i try it. Its to hard to keep everyone healed up when DPS rush and try to tank :/.
really kind of sad though. i can't make 1 gold in a week on that game when i try it. Its to hard to keep everyone healed up when DPS rush and try to tank :/.
In Communist China....You Do Farm Gold!
Perhaps they could skip the hard labor dept and go straight to gold farming...
Perhaps they could skip the hard labor dept and go straight to gold farming...
Still maybe not too late for people to wake up and realise that virtual currency, "achievements" and "gamification" are serious business not only in that they are profitable but also in that they unnecessarily contribute to human suffering. Fight this mental enslavement, you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Wow I feel a bit bad, I used to camp suspected gold farmers all the time in wow, sad to think that my actions probably led to a guy being behind on his gold quota and thus being beat in real life. I bet there is a Chinese guy somewhere locked up cursing the blood elf paladin Rednog.
Free labor and not actually being a bot doesn't break any rules for playing Wow plus being actually people they can personally respond to GMs concerned they might be bots. (Until you get to the selling gold part.)snfonseka said:
You'd think if they were making cash on the side from this they'd treat the people playing for them with a grain of respect and not split there efforts say working them in sets on each account 2-4 per account playing at different days/shifts across a week providing a little less physical labor for making the quotas. (Then again this is villainy from fiction level stupid. Instead of trying to do a minor reduced punishment system to get them work better.)
Note: I don't support Gold Farming/Selling/Buying or Mistreating Prisoners but this is so some kind of comic book villainy at work.