New York Times article on RMT in Online Games

[Ayrlie]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/09/technology/09gaming.html

there is a good article. there is a lot of related articles linked that should be read as well.

[AgentBrownEye]

i've seen an article elsewhere about this, i think it was 1up.com. anyhow, interesting read, it's amazing to think the 40% of our online population may be gilfarmers.

[Ayrlie]

keep in mind they're on all servers across the board

i think out of 3000 peeps known to be on remora server, approximately 100 to 200 of them are gilsellers. some are very obvious, others do lower-profile stuff that enables them to blend in.

[aegina]

"It's unimaginable how big this is," says Chen Yu, 27, who employs 20 full-time gamers here in Fuzhou. "They say that in some of these popular games, 40 or 50 percent of the players are actually Chinese farmers."

o.O

[Kittyneko]

I think its a bit fake.. some dude says in a newspaper that he HEARD there are lot of gilsellers.. Hmm. I tried selling 5,000,000 once, but IGE always says they cant accept transfer atm ×D

[TheGrandMom]

Well, they can get the gil cheaper from the gil sellers. The gil sellers work for 25 cents an hour!! Why would they want to buy it from you? LOL I'm sure if the gil sellers have an off week and don't get them enough gil then they might buy it from outside people but that would be a cold day in hell! LOL