Are you interest in the maximal amount you could took in the World of Warcraft? Based upon our experience, it is really existent there. But it’s not easy to detect as the single person doesn’t usually have the too much gold in WoW. So how many is the amount? The answer is 214,748 gold, 36 silver, 48 copper. In other words, we can’t put more gold into single WOW account once it reaches the capacity. We have discovered the amount the day before yesterday. Normally, we never took so many money in a single wow character. However, in the day before yesterday, we really detected the amount when we transferred the gold. Then we think it’s interesting, and decided to post it out. But before the post, we have searched on Google. It seems that’s really no news. The amount is published in the following resources. Anyway, we just post it as a record:) [...continue reading WoW Gold Capacity – Max Money Amount]
This the latest part of the series of the gold farming research. In this section, we are going to disscuss the development of gold farming!
[...continue reading Gold Farming Research Part Six – the last one]
This is the section five of the series(gold farming research): Enterprise Analysis of Gold Farming! In this section, we turn to analyse gold farming using other frameworks from the business and management literature that fall within the ambit of enterprise analysis. We start by applying some classifications to entry, existence and progression in the sub-sector. Then competitive frameworks are used to analyse the enterprise context, discussing in detail the many threats that gold-farming firms seem to face. [...continue reading Gold Farming Research Part Five]
Analysis of Gold Farming from the Perspective of Industrial Sociology
The Historical Sociology of Gold Farming
One would hesitate to use the word “stages” in relation to a history of gold farming because the reality has been much messier. However, we can see some sort of chronology, framable in terms of Bernstein’s (1983) timeline of capitalist development:- Subsistence production: in the beginning (19781), players produced and consumed items themselves.
- Barter: players producing a surplus of one item could barter with others who had a surplus of different items. This was, for example, part of Habitat, one of the first PC-based online games in the late 1980s (Damer 2007). As in real life, knowing (or at least trusting) other players could be an important component, as would be the existence of some form of trade contract enforcement. At this stage, the commoditisation of virtual items had begun – they had not only a “use value” (an intrinsic value based on their use or consumption in the game) but also an “exchange value” (a value in terms of other items for which they could be exchanged).2
- Monetisation: at some point (as noted in Section A1, Hunter (2006) tracks this to 1987), a trade jumped from barter of in-game items and currency, to exchange of real-world currency for in-game items. Thus virtual items (including in-game currency) began to be monetised. The commodification of virtual items was cemented as they began to have notional prices, as markets for their exchange started to arise, and as a division of labour emerged, with some players spending more of their time making items for others.
- Petty commodity production: at first, the production of virtual items/currency for sale would have been localised. We still see this today in the developing country players who sell at their own or nearby cybercafés (Magno 2006, Singh & Choo 2006). Likewise, players would have initially been selling only their own surplus items, but then gradually spending more time producing a surplus for sale, and less on just playing for fun. They thus started to specialise, moving on – again as we often see in developing countries today – from making money to pay for their games-playing to making cash for other real-world expenditure.
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Economic Analysis of Gold Farming
“Economics sees value wherever humans decide that some construct of theirs has utility but is scarce. Synthetic world goods have utility and are scarce; thus they have value that can be measured in terms of real dollars.” (Castronova 2006:52)
The supply—demand economics of gold farming are therefore very simple. Some people in the world have more money than time. Other people in the world have more time than money. The former demand finds the latter supply via various physical and virtual channels. And thus a market and then an industrial sub-sector are made. [...continue reading Gold Farming Research – Part Three]
