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- noun online gaming The business of
farming /grinding for in-gamecurrency (gold in many games) anditems inmassively multiplayer online games forfor-profit resale outside of the game. - verb Present participle of gold farm.
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bilby commented on the word gold farming
"Nearly 500,000 people in developing nations earn a wage making virtual goods in online games to sell to players, a study has found. Research by Manchester University shows that the practice, known as gold farming, is growing rapidly.
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In many online games virtual cash remains rare and many people turn to suppliers such as gold farmers to get money to outfit avatars with better gear, weapons or a mount. Some gold farming operations offer other services such as 'power levelling' in which they assume control of a player's character and turn it into a high-powered hero far faster than the original owner could manage themselves."
- 'Poor earning virtual gaming gold', BBC website, 22 August 2008.
August 23, 2008
renumeratedfrog commented on the word gold farming
A favorite occupation for Chinese teenagers who are employed as "gold farmers" in certain MMORPG games, such as World of Warcraft.
August 23, 2008