Meanings
- InternetuncountablegamesThe business of farming/grinding for in-game currency (gold in many games) and items in massively multiplayer online games for for-profit resale outside of the game.
You heard of gold farming? Selling multiplayer online game currency for real cash?
2012 November 15, “Critical”, in Person of Interest, season 2, episode 7, spoken by Leon Tao (Ken Leung)2 more examples
The gold farming industry turns one man's play into another's work, but most gaming workers see a clear difference between work and play.
2007 October 23, Ge Jin, “Chinese Gold Farmers: Immigrant Workers in the Game Land”, in Friedrich Von Borries, Steffen Peter Walz, Matthias Böttger, editors, Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level, Birkhäuser Basel, page 463While some companies seem largely indifferent to gold farming, others see gold farmers as unfairly extracting value from property that they do not own. Gold farming is often described as a parasitic business practice that undermines the stability of virtual economics.
2010 October 26, Greg Lastowka, Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →OL
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of gold farm
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 打钱 打錢 /打钱
- 打钱 打錢 /打钱 (dǎqián)farming/grinding for in-game currency for for-profit resale outside of the game
French farming
- farmingfarming/grinding for in-game currency for for-profit resale outside of the game
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