Chinese inmates are forced, forced from their work, play online video game World of Warcraft. Relayed by blog BigBrowser the World, the Guardian website had reported the interview of a detainee in the camp Jixi near Heilongjiang in China. Liu Dali, aged about fifty years, has spent five years between 2004 and 2009 in the detention center and shows his experience.
Among the activities taxed, one of them particularly stands out: the prisoners were forced to play World of Warcraft (WoW) daily for long hours. Why such a "punishment"? To make money, because 300 inmates playing WoW can save more than when they engage in other activities. Insiders can probably guess why.
The phenomenon, called "Gold Farming" (farms gold), is to play hundreds of people to role-play networking, namely WoW, so they purchase goods in the game estimated the World Bank, nearly 100,000 players worldwide, 80% in China are engaged in this thankless task. "If I could not reach my quota, they punished me physically.
They forced me to stand with their hands in the air, then hit me when I came back in the dorms. We continued to play until that one can barely see the screen, and shows Liu Dali. Bizarre, you say weird? 
Among the activities taxed, one of them particularly stands out: the prisoners were forced to play World of Warcraft (WoW) daily for long hours. Why such a "punishment"? To make money, because 300 inmates playing WoW can save more than when they engage in other activities. Insiders can probably guess why.
The phenomenon, called "Gold Farming" (farms gold), is to play hundreds of people to role-play networking, namely WoW, so they purchase goods in the game estimated the World Bank, nearly 100,000 players worldwide, 80% in China are engaged in this thankless task. "If I could not reach my quota, they punished me physically.
They forced me to stand with their hands in the air, then hit me when I came back in the dorms. We continued to play until that one can barely see the screen, and shows Liu Dali. Bizarre, you say weird?
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