WoW Players check this out... 700k a year!!!
 

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3141815

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

That's unreal man, I didn't know that kind of shit existed!

Now please excuse me, I have to hire a few Philly outsourcers :glugglug

That's fucked up

Some people make quite a bit of money just playing games...

mmm.... strange

very interesting read ..

Interesting maybe I should start to play games again:)

I have a friend that was doing something like this on a much smaller scale. It was in everquest and he made a character ( some kind of cleric or mage ) and got it to a very high level. He would then make macros that would allow him to log in with that character then log in on another computer with a new character and use the macros to have the high level guy cast spells on the low level guy. The macros ran all day while he was at work then he would come home and the low level guy was all but invincible so he would run out and kill some huge level guys after a week of doing this he had a new high level character that he sold in an acution for anywhere fomr $700-$1200 a piece. for a while he was doing about 4-5 of these a month. Not bad for a part time gig.

sounds interesting, another money making opportunity :thumbsup

that is some messed up shit

Very very interesting. I know people buy and sell "homes" in UO (I played it in 1999) but I guess the market has EXPLODED since then. Here in the Philippines, people actually exchange REAL money for online money for a game called RAGNAROK.


Choice quote: "Since 1998, the second-party market for MMORPG loot has steadily grown. Last year alone, this newfound industry grossed roughly $500 million, according to Bob Kiblinger of UOTreasures. CGW decided it was high time to go underground and find some of the key players who are going after a piece of the action."

Another choice quote: "as much as $60,000 per month"


Hmmmmm....

That's fucked up...

I know of a few people on GFY that make quite a bit of money on WoW.

Getting paid to play games if pretty nice in China, pretty interesting to read :thumbsup

I made quite a bit of money on d2 ... Some days I'd break the 1000 $ mark

Very interesting.

very cool read! i play everquest 2, and bet the same thing goes on there with the station exchange

rofl this is olddddd
i used to do this on Ultima online a efw years back
but I payed my local friends i hung out with and played games with to do it

normaly like 20 bux a night and they would make me a 100$

good times

Lol i even remember I held " contest "
I'd have like 10 people over with a lame lan party going and i would give 100$ to whoever got the most gold that night LOL

fun times

Why would people pay money for some game character? It's hardly any different than buying short icq numbers...(except short icq number actually has some value...)

I've written a bot that will farm for you and level a character automagically. It is pretty advanced, and I've used it to go 1-60 on many characters, with thousands of gold earned while I've slept.

Is anyone interested in something like this? It took me about 4 months to write, and I haven't given it out to anyone.

bump because WoW farming/chars is a profitable business

holy fuck i would never have imagined there were sweatshops for this stuff.

i need to start one of these sweatshops

That is kind of fucked up.

I agree. I would never pay to get a character for a game. I saw a story about another guy that paid a kid $20 an hour to play his character so that the character could get built up fast when the guy didn't have the time to put into the game.

imagine sweatshops of people clicking on Adsense ads.

Hey bud im interested in seeing what you got :winkwink:

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I was addicted to WoW for months and the amount of Chinese people on my server was just crazy. Their characters would typically be on 24/7 and they would repetively kill the same MOBs in the same area over and over. They were all over and knew little English and totally ruined the game's economy, inflating prices.