Pictures from a Gold Farm

The author Julian Dibbell recently wrote an informative NY Times article describing the phenomenon of MMORPG gold farming (http://tinyurl.com/3ylwbe).

He has also added exclusive photos to Flickr which give an interesting visual insight into the life of a gold farmer. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliandibbell/sets/72157594279649151/)

Whether you love them or hate them, this quote from Dibbell helps to put the farmer's lives in perspective.

"There are two shifts: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. This was the routine at all three workshops I visited. At Donghua, workers alternated between day shift and night shift -- two weeks on the one, two weeks on the other.

They got one day off per month."