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A research by the University of Manchester in England has shown that about 500,000 people in developing countries are earning their living by making virtual goods in online games to sell to other players. AN average of 80% of the industry is in China. They can earn about $142 per month.
In many massively multiplayer online games like , players often go to suppliers to get money to outfit their character with better weapons, armor, and other gear. Compared to the time required to actually earn that money, going through gold farmers is often a good deal.
While he estimates that the global market in gold farming could be worth about $500 million, he also says this number is inexact — thanks to the pseudo-legality of the practice — and that it could easily be twice as big. Already, he said, gold farming was comparable in size to India’s entire outsourcing industry.
"It is also a glimpse into the digital underworld," Heeks said. "Or at least the edges of a digital underworld populated by scammers and hackers and pornographers and which has spread to the ‘Third World’ far more than we typically realize."
