Chinese Gold Farmer

  Based upon the article and the video on Chinese Gold Farming, this method is based upon cheap labor in China in the virtual gaming world. The polite term for this is called gaming workshops. The laborers work for a wage of around $1.25 which equals to about 10 yuans. The person in the article named Li Qiwen, is a worker that does this for a living. Night after night him and a group of around 10 people gather up virtual coins, weapons, all that is required in the games. After they reach their goal to sell, then they all give it to their supervisor who sells the virtual currency to buyers in The United Sates and Europe. In the video, we also see that they live in small dorms and share their winnings.

  There are thousands of businesses in China that do this that it is not owned nor operated by gaming companies, who legitimately make the money. The way that these virtual currency are bought are from Ebay, PayPal, and other source of transferring money. Depending on the work shops, the average amount they make a year is $80,000 in U.S dollars. For these farmers, every minute counts because if they spent less time on it, then it is like money being taken away from their pockets.