![]() ![]() ![]() During one such raid, she gets to know a gold farmer named Raymond, a young Chinese man who works in a sort of gold-farming sweatshop. In the game, Anda meets up with fellow gamer girl Lucy, who goes on paid anti-gold farming missions (which basically amounts to having her avatar slaughter the avatars of the gold farmers, whose avatars resemble cute little snowmen gnomes). ![]() But it also allows for economic exploitation, as Anda learns when she stumbles upon the real-world phenomenon of “gold farming.” That is, people play the game to make a living, specifically by playing to win gold (or points or experience or items or whatever the reward system of the game may be in this case, it’s gold), which can then be sold to players in the real world for real money. ![]()
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