Discrimination in WOW

[tibby.dude]

Apparently, discrimination is becoming a problem in World of Warcraft. Some players are refusing to accept other players into their group unless they can chat in perfect, unbroken English. This phenomenon is being blamed on a widespread backlash against the practice of gold farming, which is unfairly associated with all non-English speakers in general.

http://www.edery.org/2006/01/discrim...d-of-warcraft/

A rather interesting social dynamic in an MMPORG.

[peered95]

i have been noticing that in the WoW enGB servers...its quite sad that it would come to this, but the GM's just need to start working now

[Borgir]

This is not really new to MMORPG's to be honest.

I agree and dont agree.

Gold farmers can be a real pain. Not cause of the english but the fact they only there for the gold. Often you hear horror stories of them Ninja looting pieces when leaders of loot etc. I have seen this often on UBRS and Scholo Raids.

A good example of this is Lineage 2.

Since lineage 2 has open PvP, farmers use this as a way to exploit items from innocent players. Often by hitting you with a hard bleed then pulling monsters on you...(so the monsters take final blow on killing you and not the Farmer taking murder penalty) He then loots your items...sells them and hands cash in. This is a rare example but one i have seen performed.

I often used to torment the farmers on WoW. When they hunt Elementals i used to banish them with my warlock


Interesting fact though....bit different but...
On Lineage 2 i managed to speak to a farmer who spoke English really well. She went into how it is an industry now. She was in an office with 40 other people playing Lineage 2/WoW/Eq 2 etc all farming gold. They had to make a certain amount within 12 hour session. Of course all shift work too, changing people all the time. So it is a 24/7 service.
She clearly said they dont play it like it was a game...but as a job. They dont really care for other players and also admitted they DO ninja but in her term "Borrow" Loot from raids for cash.
Once they get the gold for the day they all mail it or hand it to a level 1 mule.

They then advertise on Ebay or Gold buying websites such as ige.com and sell the gold for real money.
Hence where term Chinese Gold farmer comes from. Since 90 % of Farmer market are chinese business selling gold online in USD. Making a killing of cash.

So you can see where grudge starts against these people.

Ncsoft...Of lineage 2 banned a whole load of farmers last year...resulting in 1500 accounts +- a server. That is a good example to show how many and how big business is..That is just per a server!

I think blizzard needs to start cracking down on Farmers + Gold being sold online to resolve this.

[ghoti]

chinese triads and WoW, there`s one i did not see coming.

[MrJones]

Hehe, yeah, thats pretty f**ken weird, I suppose where there is money to be made? But if you were blizzard how do you go about trying to stop this kind of thing. Pretty interesting really

[BeeTee]

Well if you've got a group setup looking for other peeps to join in order to do a raid or something, surely you should be allowed to choose who goes and who doesn't...doesn't matter what your criteria is...if you don't like a specific group's criteria, find one that you're comfortable with.

Damn PC-ness is driving me nuts...

[Gangrel]

It would be wierd if this was indeed taking place on a large scale on US servers as hardly any of the americans will get parties anymore.

[tibby.dude]

WoW has become boring in my opinion, I cancelled my account last weekend.

I must admit this "levelling up" grindstone of these type of games like WOW and Evercrack has never appealed to me.

I just laughed the other day when I read about folks "fishing" and doing all sorts of stupid crafts for hours on end and actually paying for this torture.

I like RPG games like Ultima with an engaging storyline and don't mind the combat and dungeon crawl and collecting of artifacts but it must serve some purpose in order to finish the game and not prolong it because they ran out of ideas for the game a long time ago.

[MrG]

um, tibby.dude I never said that?

but I agree, you do the same thing over and over and over and over and over again. I hated the professions. I can talk about those all day, how they annoyed me

[tibby.dude]

but I agree, you do the same thing over and over and over and over and over again.

Hence the boredom and hence the cancellation .