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Ever bought gold for an MMO? Well here are 3 reasons you shouldn’t.

Ever bought gold for an MMO? Well here are 3 reasons you shouldn’t.

Rian Quenlin 26 May

1: First off, the gold is property of the MMO owners, meaning you’re receiving stolen property.

2: It’s practically cheating, and you’re funding people who spam games.

3: Prisoners in China are forced to farm gold or risk physical beatings.

No. I’m not kidding. Read on.

According to The Guardian, prisoners in China are being forced to play MMORPGs like World of Warcraft all night for the purpose of farming huge amounts of gold to sell to people who can’t make it themselves. A very disgraceful practice.

I know, you’re thinking “You sure this isn’t from The Onion”? I checked around, and I wouldn’t put it beyond Chinese prison wardens to do something like this. This isn’t a joke in the least, it’s very real, and it pisses me off on a personal level.

A prisoner named Liu Dali who was jailed for three years for the sole crime of “illegally petitioning” his government about corruption in his hometown talked about the amount of money made. It was possible for them to make an additional $1000 dollars a day.

“If I couldn’t complete my work quota, they would punish me physically. They would make me stand with my hands raised in the air and after I returned to my dormitory they would beat me with plastic pipes. We kept playing until we could barely see things,” is what Dali had said about his time in prison. I’m a crazy gamer myself, but I have never played to the point where I couldn’t see properly.

A lot of MMOs are plagued by these scammers selling gold that doesn’t belong to them, and now it comes out they might be using slave labor, and violators of human rights. The fact that it’s near impossible to prevent or regulate makes this a very difficult thing to counter due to the international nature of the internet, and there is no telling where the gold has come from.

Though hard labor in prison is to be expected, in most countries it is regulated in order to protect the health and rights of prisoners, but many countries believe many citizens are below this. So hear this people who buy gold for MMOs, you are supporting slave labor and human rights abuses. I hope that armor you bought was worth it.

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Rian Quenlin

3 Comments

  1. LOL

    Don’t they know what “BOT” is?

    27 May
  2. Fail LOL

    Bot
    An progam to play for u when u dont have the time to play urself, also to take risk for having ur account banned meaning laying ur own work to waist by such a progam called bot..
    Bot, is hacking and the accounts take ahigh risk to be banned so earned gold by bots would be none. cus u will lose it.
    and to sell gold u are better of playing it legal just farming gold for a long time.
    without the risk of being banned but surely enough u will spend most time farming for fake money into real money so basicly a farming mmorpg gaming job just to earn ing currency for real incurrency as easly 1,000,000 gold can be worth 20 to 30 buck’s in such sense its job with the lowest salary unles u are having powers to stay awake for 5 months straight with the power of not getting bored to kill the samem obs over and over that wont make u waist money to buy pots and such so u can make profit then u might reach a limit of earning an equal or a little lower then the normaly working salary. but having a prison and let all the prisoners do it, as its basicly is forced wich considerd to be seen as of slavory indeed u can earn alot out of it. and without any doubts i truely believe this can be easly the truth cus like having a black sheep in the family u can have a black sheep with prisoners to bad ones in other words so botting will be utterly fail for them to make good money without losing accounts and gold
    still dont get it and whanna respond whatever please explain me what u cant understand now ?

    05 Jun
  3. Rian Quenlin

    The problem with bots is that is just takes one person to say “Hi.” and blow their cover, or for an element of the game to change, causing major problems for the bot itself making it obsolete. And like the above poster said, using bots is a bannable offense.

    06 Jun

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