Video Game Farming Task

A Video Game Farming Task is a video game task intended to gain in-game money.

• AKA: Gold Farming.
• Example(s):
  • In the past, players used eBay and PayPal to sell each other items and gold from games like Ultima Online and Lineage.
• See: MMO Video Game, Power Leveling.

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References

2017

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_farming Retrieved:2017-5-26.
  • In the 1990s and 2000s, gold farming was the practice of playing a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) to acquire in-game currency later selling it for real-world money. People in several developing nations have held full-time employment as gold farmers. Distinct from another popular method of cheating in online, multiplayer games, gold farming specifically refers to paying for in-game currency not rank or experience points as in power leveling. The actual labor mechanics of these two practices may be identical or similar, and the "professional" gamers who held employment as gold farmers in the past may continue to work as power levelers to this day. While most game operators expressly ban the practice of selling in-game currency for real-world cash, gold farming was lucrative because it took advantage of economic inequality and the fact much time is needed to earn in-game currency. Rich players from developed countries, wishing to save many hours of playing time, were willing to pay substantial sums to gold farmers from developing countries. By 2015, the term was being used to describe the wait times and chore-like activities required to enjoy some freemium mobile phone games without paying fees.

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