Reply #6: I have been crack free of WOW since the beginning of August. [View All]

[IChing]

I got disenchanted because of the farming and gold buying. I had skinning skills and saw the price for skins go down to nothing because of the farming.
I might play after the update, I was traveling when I quit

My neighbor who turned me on to the game has a boyfriend she met within the game and is going fly out to Tennessee to visit him soon and are talking marriage. College schools of business look at WOW as something much more than a game.

Here is the article on Asian farming for on-line games.

gold Farms` Fuel `net Gamers` Fever

SHANGHAI, China, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Workers cram Shanghai sweatshops, glued to computers while getting paid to play online games around-the-clock for virtual gold.

The phenomenon known as gold farming is replacing the stereotypical Chinese sweatshop, the Times of London said Saturday. Owners of the 'gold farms' sell the virtual loot to cash-rich, time-poor Westerners for real money.

Gold farmers spend most of their waking hours at a computer, deep in the three-dimensional virtual worlds known as massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). An estimated 13 million paying players means this is one of the hottest areas of the Internet. Millions of people play these games around the clock -- building palaces, slaughtering monsters or simply hanging out in virtual nightclubs and coffee bars, the Times said.

Ge Jin, a PhD student at the University of California in San Diego, filmed a gold farm for a documentary on the economics of Internet gaming, the Times said. The filmmaker said he believed hundreds of thousands of people in China are now dependent on gold farming for their income.

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/business/article_1204248.php/Business_Roundup