Chinese Prisoners Forced to Farm MMO Gold

[Yureina]

And people wonder why I despise the Chinese government... this is hardly an exceptional example. Best part is most of those prisoners probably are political, and so have been wrongfully imprisoned.

*sigh* I hope they have another revolution...

 

[Konaerix]

Am I the only one who is not surprised?

THIS IS CHINA WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
I bet the Chinese government is doing even worse things are happening behind the scenes.
Seriously, FUCK China.

 

[Dragonsoulq]

"You have been found guilty!",The Sentence Life in Warcraft!
noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ilion]

Lets bash on china, because the rest of the world is surely without blame. Still better than back breaking work I say. Shall we discuss the North American penal system? After all the country with more prisoner population. I dislike many things about that ass backwards regime thats going on in China, its not worthy of the respect of such an ancient and honourable civilisation I prefer to call Chung-Kuo.

 

[Tax_Document]

Why don't they use a bot? That is more easy and economical. Isn't it?

The bots get banned quite quickly and actualy aren't that efficiant... Not anymore at any rate.

 

[matrix3509]

So can we arrest people who buy gold for human rights abuses?

 

[Booze Zombie]

China really took to Capitalism... gotta love what desire for income makes people do.

"Don't pirate that VHS, Chen! You'll be stuck slaying the beast lord for 12 hours with no one but noobs for company!" "I'm not afraid; I can watch Star Wars for free if I want to!"

 

[Eric the Orange]

Oh wow.
Wow has become more of a monster than I thought.

Blame the tool, or the person using the tool? Is it the hammers fault if someone uses it to bash in the skull of another?

 

[Redratson]

maybe we should just ban china ... from anything they steal IP's they farm gold torture people kill people block the internet infringe on human rights spew propaganda.

they dont deserve to be part of the civilised world right now.

This, more or less this. I hate gold farmers that come in and ruin the fucking game of WoW, that aisde to see what they have done to people is just plain unbelievable. I can't believe Blizzard hasn't fuking ban these people already.

 

[Jacksaw Jack]

Quick someone send Liberty Prime to free the slaves.

"Communism is the very definition of failure." I love that line.

 

[Grey_Focks]

Huh, China really just seems like a sucky place. I honestly never though there would be a government that would really use video games as torture, but by god, China would be the ones to prove me wrong.

And the sad part is, Blizzard is probably making too much money off of their sub fees to just IP ban them all, or they really would probably do that. hell, they still might, if they get convincing evidence. Would be good publicity, to say the least.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

frankly after reading this I'm convinced that who ever says its a good thing is an idiot.

I'm a little surprised you weren't convinced beforehand. It's pretty much turning the act of playing a game into a job, or even worse in this case, slave labor.

It's always been kind of stupid, paying someone to play a game for you.

 

[BreakdownBoy]

China is fucked up, well in this regard, would still like to go there on holiday...

 

[Kenko]

Well, it beats mining coal.

They mine coal all day and then farm gold all night. Yeah, sure.

 

[Ghengis John]

"If I couldn't complete my work quota, they would punish me physically. They would make me stand with my hands raised in the air and after I returned to my dormitory they would beat me with plastic pipes. We kept playing until we could barely see things," said Dali.

Good god, don't let griefers and PK's know that they could actually get somebody physically beaten for their own mischief. That's like throwing chum in the water to people who sustain themselves on human suffering.

 

[Kavachi]

I cannot see how this would be funny in any way. Many people are saying it is funny and sad at the same time, could someone elaborate?

 

[Chiefwakka]

So the next Alliance gold farmer I gank might end up getting lashed with reeds in real life? That's kinda depressing.

 

[Dr Jones]

Why don't they use a bot? That is more easy and economical. Isn't it?

Dunno what you mean about economical, i mean the prisoners are as free as ever. They even did use some bots, but they could be banned y'know.

 

[Dr Jones]

I cannot see how this would be funny in any way. Many people are saying it is funny and sad at the same time, could someone elaborate?

Sad that the prisoners are being tortured to play. Kind of funny that the game is a literal way of torture. You need really really black humor to find it fun, like Tarantino levels, if you dont get it you just dont get it...

 

[Amondren]

This counts as cruel and unusual punishment.