Game Worlds Get Real by Zek Valkyrie

Author:Zek Valkyrie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2017-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

Excusing Real-Money Trading

Not all players declared that farmers and RMTs were problematic or deserved such condemnation. Interestingly, those who chose to ignore both the discourse presented by the game creators and the game world’s distaste for RMTs attempted to promote an understanding that the solid-world lives of farmers were harsh (meaning they were forced to work in sweatshops or were making very little money as RMTs), that the buying and selling of virtual loot was inevitable in any online game and could be advantageous in some contexts, and that the perception of RMTs was somewhat misguided (as in, more than just “Chinese gold farmers” were participating in selling virtual goods).

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