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Ok, here is a really interesting (to me it was anyway) article on “Chinese Gold Farmers”. These are the folk that play games like World of Warcraft for hours on end to accumulate gold and items, only to have them sold for real money by the people they work for. Can you imagine playing games for a living? At first I thought it would be a cool thing, and then I read that they play for twelve hours a day, seven days a week! ={ Oh … my … ok, that would get old quick. Especially when I have to give the spoils of my victories to someone else.

Anyway, this is an interesting read, and it really gets into the life of these people that do this. I guess it beats factory work. Maybe.

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This is for any of you gamers out there. A great article I found on gamasutra about the state of online RPGs, or MMORPGS. What’s good and what’s bad, plus suggestions on how to fix it. All in all, awesome stuff! A good read even if you aren’t a gamer, but want ot get inside a gamers head.

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20070326/sorens_01.shtml