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12-07-2005, 02:12 PM
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| I AM A WHINER
:butterfly I am a “farmer” in Heilongjiang Province, China. This “farmer” is not the regular farmer who works on growing crops or raising animals. I am farming “gold” or items from online games and sell them to players around the globe, mostly to USA and Europe.
The time when I first started playing online games is June, 2005. It is the time when the World of Warcraft (WOW) was free tested by players within China. At that time, my friends and I are so interested, and we spent many hours of time everyday playing WOW. Soon we became addicted, we forgot to eat and sleep. We were immersed in the game’s fantasy world. Later my girlfriend left me, all because I was so addicted to the game, doing nothing but playing all day.
At the beginning of this year, I was hired as a farmer, basically to get the gold by killing beasts and sell them in the game or playing with accounts to higher levels. Though it is the same “playing” (should be called working) game, my feeling has changed, I am not addicted to it any more. Since I had many experience, it is easy for me to get the gold. My boss is very happy with my work. Also I am the only person in the farm with a college degree and knows some English. My boss gave me bonus from time to time. We sold those gold to many companies, like ige.com, mmogc.com … Sometimes the order is very urgent for power leveling, we have to work day and night.
Almost a year has passed since I became the farmer. The good thing is now I can earn some money. The bad thing is I feel very tired and empty inside. The work is repetitive and boring. My experience with the game goes from interested, attracted to addicted and now very bored and tired.
I don’t know what I am going to do next. My childhood dream was to have a life full of art. Now I have to work in the farm, to earn money for the living and for my parents. Maybe someday I can have my own company to earn a lot of money and then to fulfill my dream. | 
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12-08-2005, 09:30 PM
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| Grumpy Old Grandpa
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Portugal Age: 23 Posts: 10,000
| What the hell? | 
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12-08-2005, 10:05 PM
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| Comic Forum Leader
Join Date: May 2003 Age: 19 Posts: 5,351
| YAY4FARMERS! | |
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12-08-2005, 11:38 PM
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| BattleForums Member
Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 364
| Hmmm... When you read this at first you may think "what a lucker, he can play all day for money"... But it must get VERY boring O.O...
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12-09-2005, 12:28 AM
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Originally Posted by TrongaMonga What the hell? | What I said after the second paragraph.
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12-09-2005, 02:18 AM
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| Battle God
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Sanctuary Posts: 1,646
| guess what? my grandpa was a farmer!
btw, i hope u accomplish ur dream
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12-09-2005, 07:30 PM
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| Bite my shiny metal ass!
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Russellville, AR Age: 20 Posts: 5,924
| Yeah, what the hell. I didn't know quite what to do with this thread, although I did move its duplicate. | |
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12-09-2005, 09:59 PM
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| Fuck A wristband Imma do a kegstand
Join Date: May 2003 Location: k-twon Posts: 5,915
| you mean as in rea llife farming or like d2 stores but for wow?
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12-09-2005, 11:32 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Age: 18 Posts: 4,041
| You "farmers" are really expensive on the whole "gold" thing.
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12-10-2005, 12:46 AM
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| | | No offense, but I feel that it is necessary to say that you add nothing to society.
Thanks. | |
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12-10-2005, 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Big-Fat-Homo No offense, but I feel that it is necessary to say that you add nothing to society.
Thanks. | People that make games add nothing to the society too. We can still like them :lovedup!
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Is this the end of all we know - innocence lost so long ago;
Woven in dreams - the darkest of schemes now takes hold of our destiny...
Decades of greed, plague, famine and war - we can't go on like this anymore;
Living like fools - chaos will rule this eternal paradise...
A Fool's Paradise - Symphony X :corn Join the Image Puzzle game ! :corn | |
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12-10-2005, 08:22 PM
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| BattleForums Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 1,538
| So do we say 'Welcome to BattleForums' or what?
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12-11-2005, 12:22 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 364
| Oh right... Welcome to BattleForums farmer!
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Is this the end of all we know - innocence lost so long ago;
Woven in dreams - the darkest of schemes now takes hold of our destiny...
Decades of greed, plague, famine and war - we can't go on like this anymore;
Living like fools - chaos will rule this eternal paradise...
A Fool's Paradise - Symphony X :corn Join the Image Puzzle game ! :corn | |
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12-16-2005, 05:45 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Your pants Age: 19 Posts: 2,836
| i didnt read ur post. i just know ur a farmer and ur new. welcome to BF | |
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12-16-2005, 01:37 PM
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| BattleForums Newbie
Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 2
| welcome to battleforums. Im new also.:wavey
You know...id like to be a farmer too. but i think it would get really boring...
Besides thats your girlfriend left you because you played a game too much is just....pathetic 
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12-17-2005, 04:07 AM
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| I still play games
Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 1,725
| Do you actually do anything involving agriculture at all?
I thought not.
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12-17-2005, 02:10 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: near Watertown, NY Age: 23 Posts: 2,985
| Go play Harvest Moon.
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12-17-2005, 02:42 PM
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| BattleForums Member
Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 364
| Oh well... Just try to find another job...
I doubt sunny will ever post in BattleForums again  .
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Is this the end of all we know - innocence lost so long ago;
Woven in dreams - the darkest of schemes now takes hold of our destiny...
Decades of greed, plague, famine and war - we can't go on like this anymore;
Living like fools - chaos will rule this eternal paradise...
A Fool's Paradise - Symphony X :corn Join the Image Puzzle game ! :corn
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12-18-2005, 01:37 AM
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| Battle God
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Sanctuary Posts: 1,646
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Originally Posted by -Azrael666- Go play Harvest Moon. | omgz i love that nintendo 64 game..i just looked on ebay though and it costs $60
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12-18-2005, 02:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Carbon omgz i love that nintendo 64 game..i just looked on ebay though and it costs $60 | Just get Project 64 and a Harvest Moon 64 ROM  .
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Is this the end of all we know - innocence lost so long ago;
Woven in dreams - the darkest of schemes now takes hold of our destiny...
Decades of greed, plague, famine and war - we can't go on like this anymore;
Living like fools - chaos will rule this eternal paradise...
A Fool's Paradise - Symphony X :corn Join the Image Puzzle game ! :corn | |
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