World Of Warcraft: Fox News reports on Gold Farmers

It looks like Chinese (Shanghai sweatshops) gold farming has hit the news again. There is a full page article about it on Fox News

Blizzard Entertainment, which owns "World of Warcraft," has shut thousands of suspected accounts, but the gold farmers are becoming increasingly brazen.

"It's getting ridiculous. They have started mugging other characters and stripping them of valuables. It's meant to be a game, but when there's money involved, people will do anything."

Professor Edward Castronova, an American specialist in MMORPG economics, agrees that gold farmers are bad for gaming, but says they may enjoy better conditions than other sweatshop workers.