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The BBC On RMT
Real Money Transfer (RMT) is a contentious subject among MMOG players, but not something usually addressed by major news organizations. Joystiq has up a post on the BBC's coverage of gold farming in World of Warcraft , with a reporter 'live from Ironforge' addressing the issue. "The BBC has taken a straight look at Chinese gold farmers in the World of Warcraft. We'd fear for our own jobs when MSM begin competently portraying game news — thankfully, gold farming is old news and has already been well documented in the last two years, so we feel relatively safe. The piece takes a look at your typical Chinese gold farming operation, with some nifty use of green-screen by the reporter being magically teleported into the game. At least it wasn't another WoW game addiction piece."
If you don't watch videos while you slashdot, you're not going to get much out of the link.
It's nice when the summary says something about a video, although I've been here too long to expect that out of Zonk.
Personally I'd like to see only videos with transcripts posted on slashdot, but probably that's just me.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"