Playing Games in Dreamworld
Xu Youzhen, head designer of the online game Dreamworld (梦想世界) and chief manager of its parent...
gold farming
China’s Online Gaming Operators Heavily Subsidised
Caixin notes that China’s already lucrative online gaming industry is awash with government subsidies: Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd (NASDAQ:SNDA), China’s largest Internet gaming operator, booked 313 million...
Chinese Prisoners Forced Into Lucrative Internet Gaming Scam
The Guardian reports on Chinese prisoners forced to work in “gold farms”: endlessly grinding through repetitive tasks in online games to accumulate in-game goods and currency which are then sold to players abroad. As...
Chinese virtual miners – Terra Nova
From Terra Nova (via Virtual China) (link): Ge Jin, a PhD student from UCSD, is making a video documentary of the gold farming phenomenon. The documentary preview shows some of his interviews with Chinese workers in various gold farming workshops. In our conversations over email, he has brought up some interesting points based on his […]
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