What do you know about gold farming?

It’s been months since I’ve logged in to World of Warcraft. I quit my subscription and washed my hands of that addictive mess, just like I did a few years earlier with Diablo II.

For me it happens when the synapses in my brain finally break the game down: you click on things to get better stuff so you can click on bigger things to get better stuff.

Which is why I never understood how people were willing to pay other people to skip the whole…game. If you go around buying power leveled character full of money and stuff…what’s the point?

I feel like writing about gold farming is like beating the rusted horseshoe dregged up from the bottom of the nearby river that was pried from a dead, beaten horse two centuries ago, but there’s a long and interesting article from NYT Magazine profiling a couple gold farmers in China. The people. Who are they?