Chinese Gold Farmers.
A random topic for a random post, or so it would seem.
I’ve spent my days at work playing Nowhere Else and Beyond, simply because I’m waiting on phone calls to come in. All I do when I’m not bothering with quests, is farm for ingots of raw material. The ingots I farm for get sold to someone for large chunks of in-game gold, which makes me happy as a clam.
I use that gold to buy better equipment and spells so that I can go longer in my quest for thousands upon thousands of ingots. By thousands and thousands, I do mean that I farmed up 2050+ Iron ingots alone yesterday. I don’t even remember the gold or platinum count, and I know that I need to switch dungeons to farm up any mythril. It’ll happen eventually. I’m even playing the mini-game that deals with running a mining rig, and I’ve got 5th or 6th place for everything, on average.
What saddens me is that I’m basically being paid to play games while waiting for phone calls. I sort of feel like I’m one of those Chinese Gold Farmers we joke about in most MMORPGs. 
I actually hope for more phone calls today, and I hope they’re the short kind. A whole mess of 10 minute calls would do wonders for me. 
I mean, back to back to back to back 10 minute calls.
On WOW, people harvest gold then sell it on Ebay…maybe extra income? How do I know? My son begged me to go on Ebay and buy him gold….real money for game money…eh? no thank you. I think they do that on SecondLife too.
If it’s an MMORPG, or some type of online game that uses large amounts of currency, most of the time, there’s some sort of currency selling that’ll be going on.
Be it WoW, Anarchy Online, Second Life, Everquest, Asheron’s Call, Lineage 2, or a gigantic list of other possibilities, there’s some sort of online currency selling, though in the case of all the aforementioned save Second Life, it’s generally against the game’s EULA, ToS, and AUP.
In Second Life’s case, hell, they encourage you to Buy L$, Sell L$, and all that.
… through their website, so they get a cut of what’s goin’ ooooon.
(also, let’s see if the threaded comments plugin I just activated even works. :D)