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Wage Slaves (Secondary Market) @ 1Up

Posted by Dhruin @ Thursday - July 07, 2005 - 09:39 -
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1Up has a feature titled Wage Slaves that looks at the phenomenon of paying third-world MMO players a pittance to farm for the secondary market:
Last month we showed you some of the scammers and crooks that lurk in MMO games. Now, let's go into the field for a firsthand account of another part of the online underworld.

"Sack" is the only name I'm given for the person I'm supposed to contact. He lives in the Fujian province of China, but his place of business is online—he plays Lineage II. He's paid about 56 cents an hour to work in a videogame "sweatshop."
I'm not getting the economics of this but I guess that why I didn't make $1.5M last year. ;)
 
 
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