Saturday, January 23, 2010
Real World Money Used to Buy Virtual Property
Well, I touched on it before, and apparently there are corporate organizations that employ people to play Orcfest 3 all day in order to sell you items that you're too lazy to get on your own? Who came up with that idea?
I decided to go to Taiwan, where I met up with a gentleman named Ling Ho Phat. Ling Ho is the CEO of Dragon Time, an organization which employs over 350 Taiwanese youngsters who are paid about $3.00 a day to play Orcfest 3 for 14 to 16 hours straight. The purpose is to get those precious items in the game and to sell them on the "Blackmarket" internet for real American dinero.
This precludes the idea that American's are too lazy to play a video game for that long every day and can't achieve these items on their own. Well, I beg to differ! I believe American's are too lazy and they should be able to buy those items for their god given rights to disposable income.
Upon visiting Dragon Time, I had the opportunity to interview Ling Ho about how he came up with this money making idea.
"I have idea on how to sell cheap samurai swords on internet.. and it hit me in face... rhy not sell virtual swords from popular game rike Orcfest 3? I make website to sell what I pay children to pray the game fo
16 hour a day. I gleat genius!"
I noticed that all of the teenagers that sat in the dank, smelly boardroom with cheap computers and card tables, were completely naked, except for their underwear. Ling Ho informed me it was so they could not smuggle or steal the company's product from the building. I reminded him that the company's product does not exist in the actual world and they couldn't steal it if they tried. He simply pointed at his head and said, "That's what you tink. Who genius here? Me or you?"
Maybe Ling Cho is right? Maybe he is a "gleat genius" and he has lead the charge for a new type of virtual market? Maybe virtual real estate is next?
Does your Uber-Paladin need a new castle? Maybe some clothesless Taiwanese boy is fighting his way through the Andaluvian Swamp right now to get it for him? Ling Hop is probably working on that as we speak.
When I returned to our immensely huge office where the employees actually have clothes on, here in the great U.S.A., I went on one of Ling Hu's sites in order to see if I could buy one of his virtual products. I went to gleatgenius.com and there I saw a cavalcade of magical items that I remember programming into the game so many years before. And there it was: the coveted +500 Sword of Blaggarts. I remember setting up the conditions in the game in order to get this sword. These conditions were akin to winning the Powerball lottery everyday for one year straight. The odds that someone were to actually achieve this item were billions to one. Yet, some naked Taiwanese person had done it! And there it was for $10,000 U.S., Paypal or Visa accepted. Damn, if Ling Chu hadn't whipped those kids into a force to be reckoned with!
Upon furthur research, nobody had yet bought it, so I decided to break out the company credit card and test the theory for myself. In mere moments, my Anti-Uber Paladin was wielding the greatest weapon known to any virtual RPG in existence. Goblins and Hobgoblins alike were cleaved in twain as I charged through their ranks, the experience and gold pieces racking up like a bloody, medieval slot machine.
And who did I have to thank? Lin Hop and his merry band of naked chinese people marching through Orcfest 3 on their way to glory.
" It take gleat genius to make money on computer, but even gleater genius sell american doughboy a wand of fireball for $59.99 " - Ling Ho Phat, founder of Dragon Time Virtual Shopping Mall
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