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Bad Press For Gold Farmers Affects Chinese Players
Next Generation is running a piece entitled Why PC Gamer Kicked Out Gold Farmers. Editor-in-chief Greg Vederman talks about why they decided to no longer accept advertising from 'Gold Farming' services for Massively Multiplayer games like World of Warcraft. Though there are moral grounds for this decision, it contrasts with a Eurogamer piece on the negative reactions Chinese players recieve on English-speaking servers. From that article:"Apparently there is a common belief among English speaking players that most non-English speakers are gold farmers and are only playing for commercial gain. As a result, players are asking anyone who wants to join a group to type one or two sentences in English. If the sentences contain spelling or grammar mistakes, the player is rejected. Since you have to join groups to complete certain quests in WOW, this is presenting many Chinese players with a serious problem. "
And that's why English speaking players feel that Chinese speakers are probably just farmers selling gold to players in the states for money. Because if all they wanted was the game, they would be playing on the many servers in China that Blizzard has licensed The9 to run.
I never have problems with French speakers on my server, why are they capable of sticking to their own servers unlike the Chinese on my server?
If they weren't farmers, they'd be on their native language server.
In fact, as I understand it, it costs less for a Chinese version of WoW and to play it monthly.
My work here is dung.
Gaming is not just a way of life. It's a 24/7 JOB. They make money selling items on e-bay and the like. The players are nothing more than the gamers version of a day/stock trader. In fact, they prolly don't even like the game. It's just another source of real-world income.
Life is not for the lazy.
I have no sympathy for these players for the following reasons 1. If they live in China, play on a chineese server. Period. 2. If they live in North America, learn the language. It pisses me off to no end when there are immigrants in this country who live in packs who talk in their native language, who have no intention of ever learning one of our national languages. 3. You arnt being pulled over and beaten by cops, you arnt getting your land stolen from you, you arnt being forced to build a railroad. FIND ANNOTHER CLAN. FIND ANNOTHER SERVER. LIVE WITH IT!!!
"What prevents Chinese speaking players from playing on their country's servers?"
What prevents black people from going to their schools? What prevents them from drinking from their water fountains?
Maybe they shouldn't have to--- I think it's unfair to those gamers who simply want to play with, and perhaps experience the company, of people of a different national origin than their own, to experience blanket descrimination because of the actions of a minority of players of their same ethnic and national background. This type of gold farming is nothing new either--- UO was plagued by it, and the majority of that gold came from gold-dupers, hackers, and from the United States. By your same logic, you should be asking people the pledge of allegiance of a respective European country, or the name of the prime minister, to exclude American hackers and gold dupers from your midst. I expect you can see how you, as a probable American, wouldn't want such a restriction placed on you by the irrational and racist views of others.
I've played plenty of multiplayer online games created by Koreans (Ragnarok Online, Helbreath, Lineage), and I've yet to be descriminated against by a single korean player--- even though people from the west are actually well known to be hackers by many korean players, and often not legitimate players.
If you can't speak english, why are you playing an english text based PC game? Sure you can hack and slash, but 90% of WOW is reading -- either the chat text or the quest text or whatever.
HJ
I like to play S&M with the AARP. They have lots of EXP and more than enough G to be able to afford the EQP. On the other hand, with AARP'ers, you have to worry about HT's and S's, which can be a problem.
Just curious... do any Americans let you play in their groups, since you, apparently, also don't speak English?
I don't respond to AC's.
This - unfortunately - just isn't true. If a player doesn't know current events and can't understand basic English or refuses to communicate, they don't belong in a group with me.
/mute Southpaw or /ignore Southpaw
Maybe they just typed in
So tell us what do you really want? Do you want a US server that disallows all foreign IP addresses?
Or people who can't speak English?
Or maybe both? Because if you are accusing all foreigners of being farmers then this is your solution, becaues I can't think of any other other than better group managment (and that is your personal responsibility).
Do you think Blizzard would agree to do this?
No? Well maybe it is a moot point then.
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
YES, u Amelikans come too hour schver, pray with hour peepo, and take hour gould. And when we talk u laugh at us and say we stoopid. But you amelikans more styupid. You do not know the diffelence between "you're" and "your". Then you take our normahl engrish and put it up on www.engrish.com. You peepo styupid. We build warl to protect our big cuntry, when you peepo build small warl that cannot pohtect your literl shitty, Stoopid amelikans >_*
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I love humanity, it is people I hate
But what do I know right? I'm just a dumb fucking racist who lives in a dream world where the "Muhammed's" aren't flying airplanes into office buildings. It might be "not nice" but it's not like the Arab world hasn't collectively earned the response.