There could be up to a million Chinese gold farmers

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5-06-2009 @ 2:42PM

Ektelon said...

Honestly, I feel the biggest contributor to gold farmers is Blizzard itself (indirectly of course).

As Anon said, he'd rather go do one hour of WORK than play nine hours of GAME.

Blizzard has tripped a fatal design flaw, in which a very important part of the GAME feels like WORK.

People will always be willing to pay someone else to do the things that they do not want to do. If that happens to be collecting gold in WoW, so be it.

How can they combat gold farmers? Simple: design your game so that players will WANT to farm the gold themselves. Make gold farming FUN. Make it a GAME. Granted, designing a "fun" virtual economy is certainly not so simple, but it is the only true solution as I see it.

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