gold farming

noun

1. the practice of selling virtual assets gained in a computer game for real money

Example Sentences

Inflation is a perennial problem with massively multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft, where for-profit gold farming — itself a venerable but unsanctioned “play-to-earn” system — has contributed to a huge cycle of it.

From The Verge

At one point, a new member asked if it was appropriate to talk about gold farming, an activity that Jagex prohibited.

From Slate

Bannon has an often-overlooked background in the tech entertainment industry as the former head of a World of Warcraft gold farming company, but his keynote will focus on more familiar issues of immigration and nationalism.

From The Verge

In fact, that slice of gaming was worth an estimated $3billion reaching back to 2009, buoyed by the virtual economy — and subsequent gold farming — in Massively Multiplayer Online games like Activision/Blizzard’s World of Warcraft.

From Forbes

With it, Blizzard is essentially legalizing item and gold farming, and simply taking a cut of it themselves.

From Forbes