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gold farming

noun

  1. the practice of selling virtual assets gained in a computer game for real money
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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.

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

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