World of Warcraft. Chinese 'Gold Farmers' Play Computer Games for Cash - Science News. The room is crammed with Chinese workers stripped to the waist.
Poorly paid and exhausted from their punishing shifts, they chain-smoke and rub their eyes, while their colleagues sleep two to a mat on the floor. But this Shanghai sweatshop is not churning out T-shirts, tennis shoes or children's toys. Its workers are known in the computer games world as "gold farmers. " • Click here to visit FOXNews.com's Video Gaming Center. WoWProgress - World of Warcraft Rankings and History. Elitist Jerks. 1-525 WoW Profession Guides.