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champagne charlie · 2nd February 2008, 08:43

I saw a documentary on the history of gaming recently. One segment was about WOW.

Apparently there are now sweatshop operations in China that have been set up to generate WOW virtual gold and then resell it for real cash.

The workers lived in dormitories, bunk beds, communal kitchens. It's a 24 hour operation. Each worker minds several bots for a long shift, eats a bowful of noodles, hits the sack and starts it all over again the next day.

Very distrurbing.

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champagne charlie champagne charlie is on the bus Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,606 vCash: 500 Rep Power: 0	Re: World of Warcraft in Thailand? I saw a documentary on the history of gaming recently. One segment was about WOW. Apparently there are now sweatshop operations in China that have been set up to generate WOW virtual gold and then resell it for real cash. The workers lived in dormitories, bunk beds, communal kitchens. It's a 24 hour operation. Each worker minds several bots for a long shift, eats a bowful of noodles, hits the sack and starts it all over again the next day. Very distrurbing.