Gold Farming, Now Unionizing...

Korea, is home of world turmoil, threats of being a nuclear wasteland from the north, and of course gold farming. Now those gold farmers are deciding to unionize against the government and MMO's who is moving against them.

Their new title is D.A.D.P.A. (Digital Asset Distribution Promotion Association) And it’s all about selling virtual items and gold to western MMO players who have more money then time and/or patience to play the game they are paying a monthly fee for.

Though it is breaking the EULA (End User License Agreement) Which is that three to five pages of small print you click past without reading to install any video game you load on your computers, in there stating you agree not to do that or forfeit your account if caught.

So in Korea where an average days wage is about or under $7 a day, selling 5 hours of farmed items and gold for about $10-$20 is a serious wage earning and real income. Supporting themselves, family, drinking and getting to play as well.

Of course the fact they are unionizing means this is not just a handful of guys here and there, but an actual industry, because five people do not form a union that stands against the government and other corporations in legal battles.

You should be very shocked at how many illegal aliens are in the U.S. boarder. If they where organized and all decided to strike at the same time, they could bring the U.S. to it’s knees, and now the U.S. online game industry has spawned a working class that is becoming a multi-national union of thousands of “digital farmers” who live within our virtual worlds doing the same thing that Mexico is doing.

Illegally invading the boarders to take on below “U.S. standards of living” and farming mundane and drudge works for pennies on the dollar. However it isn’t the salads and canned food, burgers, and other fast-foods we stuff our faces with after work, but it’s now our play they are living on.

We have such a level of living (yes even you guys who complain about working for minimum wage) are living at such a level in the world market that people are scrounging for your play-time scraps.

I have never purchased digital content, I have paid monthly fees to play games with digital assets, (Ultima Online, Everquest, Asheron's Call, Anarchy-Online, World of Warcraft, and Beta'ed many MMO's out there, Yah I have played a lot of them) I do know persons who have purchased from the farmers (DADPA’s) because their play, as is life, is becoming a business decision for any moment in play or work.

Their time is becoming so valuable that they have re-evaluated what their time is worth to them in play and by buying digital assets they maximize their limited fun time off of work.

Instead of spending hours and hours (we are talking almost like having a part time to full time job) to get to a level of play, they purchase short-cuts to get there because their play time, like the rest of our lives here in the U.S. we don’t have enough time to do the things we want.

So it comes down to , we are so successful her in the U.S. that we are literally paying others to play for us because we don’t have enough play time for ourselves.

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