A million Chinese gold farmers!
So according to a recent article in Eurogamer, there’s one million Chinese employed in the virtual gold trade. Chinese gold traders is a $10 billion industry with some firms employing as many as 1,000 employees to mine the virtual gold. Unsurprisingly, 70% of the RMT activity is geared to World of Warcraft.
“So Blizzard really creates a miracle! I really can’t believe that a game can generate such a large market,” said a spokesman for SwagVault, a prominent gold selling company.
One million is truly a staggering number. That means there’s more people employed in “playing” a game to generate fictious gold than there are people in cities such as San Francisco, Denver or Seattle (counting just people within city limits not metropolitan area populations).
Visit Eurogamer for an excellent series on the gold trade.
China the big unknown
March 22, 2009 by Jin
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