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China, gold farmers arrested

by Nessaj @ 8 May 2008, 09:52 PM

The whole World of Warcraft is complaining about gold farmers exploiting the game but "no one" is doing anything serious against it, except for the Chinese government - Two gold farmers have been arrested.

The two guys, Li and Zhang, have been arrested for trading items and gold. They got an operation of 20 employees farming gold on 20 computers. In about seven months they made a turnover of about 1.4 Mio RMB which is equivalent to 200.000$.

Funny thing about it is that Li reported Zhang for unfair revenue distribution but both have been arrested. Some people may call this justice, others call it stupidity.

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Vash
8 May 2008, 09:55 PM
User

rofl.....

Vimsivoms
8 May 2008, 09:56 PM
User

They got what they deserved (:

Nactive
8 May 2008, 09:56 PM
User

defently stupidity

Elena_Dragovic
8 May 2008, 10:15 PM
User

Turn up the Irony Meter to 11. After all, with all of the complaints in the US about gold farming, it takes the Chinese to stand up and do something about it.

Yep, police in China has arrested 2 men for running a World of Warcraft gold farming operation and charged them with "unfair revenue distribution" (CHINESE READER ALERT - what in the world is "unfair revenue distribution"?).

The two men ran the operation for 7 months and earned 1.4 Million RMB (just over US$200,000). They had 20 computers and 20 employees (no shifts, I guess) and were based in Chengdu's Shuangliu county. The men were targeting The9's China-based World of Warcraft operation... I'm not sure if this makes their revenue more impressive or not.

Reinforce
8 May 2008, 10:22 PM
User

HAHAHA how stupid, they deserved it!

Pateroli
8 May 2008, 10:36 PM
User

Would the spams in cities like stormwind, Orgrimmar, Ironforge etc.. finaly be over soon

Elena_Dragovic
8 May 2008, 10:56 PM
User

no u acc hacket and wellcome new spamer 1 lvl )))

iTo
8 May 2008, 11:24 PM
User

Well.. the idiot did deserve it o.o WTH kind of idiot would report something else for doing something illegal when there doing the same thing -.-

Gollese
9 May 2008, 12:19 AM
User

Puwnd!

#10

Chaosvex
9 May 2008, 12:40 AM
Movie Guy

How do you know it was illegal exactly? Do you know China's laws? Probably not.

#11

Sunandsteel
9 May 2008, 01:03 AM
User

/slap Chaos, less talk more raiding imo!

#12

rediar
9 May 2008, 02:56 AM
User

they were arrested for stealing accounts, not farming and trading in game.
they used trojan to steal game accounts and their property in game, then sold them for real money.

#13

Asschen-Sukar
9 May 2008, 10:07 AM
User

omg thats just funny

#14

tianmi
9 May 2008, 01:32 PM
User

lawl

#15

Abyzz
9 May 2008, 01:40 PM
User

$200.000 may sound like a lot, but if you think about it that's a monthly salary of $1429 per farmer, excluding purchase of 20 computers, the humongous power consumption, and shelter for the farmers to do their 'job' - not to mention giving the two confederates something for their dishonest efforts. In reality there's no chance the employee can get away with anything over $1000 a month, and I doubt we're talking about a couple hours farming a week here...

Poorly paid, hardly intriguing work, probably not under acceptable working conditions, morally wrong, downright illegal and now also leading to imprisonment - why isn't everyone gunning for this position?

#16

aavo74
9 May 2008, 06:58 PM
User

Haha , i doubt the farmers were given more than 100$ a month or less.. its BIG money in china

#17

elementz
9 May 2008, 09:30 PM
User

Gold farming and trading is not illegal in China's law,but in Blizzard's rule.
The reason why they be caught is that they spread virus and use trojan to steal Gold and Items from online-game player, then trade for money. So they have been arrested.
The "Studio" of Li and Zhang was not doing things like farming gold,STEALING gold from players is their job.

#18

Sunstrider
10 May 2008, 08:14 AM
User

A big "Farming company" was destoryed lately in China, it had already earned $200,000 by stealing others' account.

#19

influenz
10 May 2008, 02:58 PM
User

haha what a chicken

#20

Killerbeeee
10 May 2008, 04:09 PM
User

stupidity AND justice

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