hyjack01 Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Tonight 11.00 pm for our Dutch and Belgian players on station Ned 2, a documentary about Chinese 'slaves' who are forced to play 24 hours a day on games like WoW (and RS?). Their bosses sell those accounts later to European and American players... I've read something about this was shown on American tv, but now on Dutch tv.. EDIT: Good morning, Documentary was little bit different than expected, but still quite interesting.. As the introduction says: What connects young Chinese farmers, horrible gnomes and obsessive Europeans??Answer: World of Warcraft... Young Chinese farmers (not slaves) are being paid to work (in shifts) on levelling WoW-accounts for European players. To watch, see: http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl/index.ph ... 524ac2a631 Press down left button to watch !Chinese spoken with Dutch subtitles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea_dragon35 Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Wow, thats pretty insane :shock: . I live in belgium, might watch it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakka102 Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 interesting stuff. Accept I think it belongs in general rather then general p2p, since it doesnt really pertain to p2p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Severation Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 I wish I had 'station Ned 2' :( sounds like a pretty interesting programme. you best edit in the morning! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dharockslayer Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Im sooo going to watch that :D Interrested in joining the cabbagy madness? Click here to go to our forums, and say hi ^^lol one of the biggest pvp updates of the year, and tip it is discussing granite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n64jive Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 its called gold farming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazexl Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Lol im so watching this DK Drop list : Dragon axe : 2 Bezerker ring's : 4 Warrior ring's : 5 Seers rings : 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomnameless Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Most people don't get forced to play, but they get a wage better than what they could have if they lived their life farming. Sometimes they sell an account, sometimes they get paided to play on one of the accounts. Some of the time they just make money and sell millions on sites like ebay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazexl Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Most people don't get forced to play, but they get a wage better than what they could have if they lived their life farming. Sometimes they sell an account, sometimes they get paided to play on one of the accounts. Some of the time they just make money and sell millions on sites like ebay. Getting a nice hour loan to play RS wouden't be a bad job , but probly they will get payed like 2-3 euro a week , and they need to play 24/7 without breaks DK Drop list : Dragon axe : 2 Bezerker ring's : 4 Warrior ring's : 5 Seers rings : 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikzelf100 Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Tonight 11.00 pm for our Dutch and Belgian players on station Ned 2, a documentary about Chinese 'slaves' who are forced to play 24 hours a day on games like WoW (and RS?). Their bosses sell those accounts later to European and American players... I've read something about this was shown on American tv, but now on Dutch tv.. Will edit tomorrowmorning, after i have seen this. Mod: plz dont lock or move as this seems rs p2p related.. i gonna watch too and when i comes to morow online we can maybepost the link for people who missed it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaze The Movie Fan Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Trading accounts? Well, since I have no channel at all, I can't watch it. But I can't wait for the results. But I'm pretty sure they will more likely get banned before reaching their goals. :roll: (I don't know anything about WoW but one of the rules on RS don't allow it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam007 Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Most people don't get forced to play, but they get a wage better than what they could have if they lived their life farming. Sometimes they sell an account, sometimes they get paided to play on one of the accounts. Some of the time they just make money and sell millions on sites like ebay. Getting a nice hour loan to play RS wouden't be a bad job , but probly they will get payed like 2-3 euro a week , and they need to play 24/7 without breaks It's not enjoyable for them really. They don't speak the language and can't interact with anyone, and they just do the same repetitive task over and over(unlike regular players who do different repetitive tasks over and over :P ). They're basically human autoers. It's just sad that the wages there are decent enough for gold farming that people actually turn to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikzelf100 Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 i jsut watched it and the boss of the company they filme din was really caring about his employees and he made everytime sure they had what they needed and their wages arent really bad either playing 8 - 10 hours a day sometimes more but most of the time 8 - 10 hours and getting good paid for it some dude there can train a WoW character fomr lvl 1 to 60 in 13 days :shock: :shock: that is very quickly but they didnt get cought or something because how the hell can you check if someone is using chinese gold farming they arent bots or something there boss was a kind of very nice guy from what they showed on television those chinese farmers should be very happy with what they got if they stayed in their own village on a farm they would earn much less money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connerr Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 My friend told me something about this, but I don't know if they got payed. He said that there would be like 3 kids on 1 WoW account. While one sleeps, another plays, while one eats, another plays. Basically they never stop. If i was payed to play RS 24/7, I'd quit after a couple days, honestly. Quit - October 7th, 2007.1700 Total, 4 years of RS.^Click for Blog^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthewlock Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 YouTube Pl0x? Siggie needs work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason_D123 Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 I used to play WoW :) The guys who did the farming were teenage kids, getting payed to play a video game as a teenager? Sounds like a nice job. Those guys would get a loooooot of gold then sell it to major websites, making very little when the big sites make tons, (sort like merchanting lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viktorkrum77 Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 I wish I lived in the Netherlands or Belgium. :( Me doing staff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastForce Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 YouTube Pl0x? :pray: gimme the link if someone puts it on youtube :P I wonder if gold farming is better money than working irl lol. Pretty sad if you ask me. I think there was a TipIt Times article about this i'm not sure. Road To Trimmed Completionist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g_u_t_h_i_x Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 That is...creepy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilya Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 wow that's insane i'd do it, prolly.... post it on youtube or rapidshare i wana see pl0z pl0x pl0zx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruilex Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 well its not slaves it's chinese prisoners and i would know because my dad knows someone that farms gold like that on WOW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oddfaery2 Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 I know it's off-topic, but NoA (Nintendo of America) pays $10/hr starting for people to sit there and test their games... :P http://www.parkerservices.com/jobdetail.cfm?JobNo=15350223 Proud to have gotten 1800 skill total before access to fishing guild Why make a house when you can rob one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon_Scyth Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 i wana see it, my mate next to me has says its sweet. anyone got a link to download it? "Boredom got me playing, Boredom stops me from playing. It's a vicious cycle." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyjack01 Posted December 22, 2006 Author Share Posted December 22, 2006 link added in first post. Chinese spoken, dutch subtitles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skoda333 Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 u think its a nice job? well they get paid 600 yuan a month thats less than 60 EURO! barrows:dh axe, guth chainskirt, ah staffX2, v skirt, t leggsX2,dagannothkings: zerkerbandos: plate, bootsX3 tassetsX3(1 solo) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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