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The Chinese "farmers" made their first mistake when they crossed the Koreans. Those Koreans take their online gaming fucking seriously.

Source: Game Politics
http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/216094.html#cutid1

Vigilante - pixelante? - gangs of Korean players are now patrolling servers, questioning players suspected of being in the employ of gold farming companies. According to one player, the test is simple: "You can tell they are Chinese because they can't speak Korean." Any non-Korean players found are slaughtered.


Yep, they think that killing every Chinese player should be sufficent revenge for idenity theft and looting. Cause we all know every asshole and scammer in a MMORPG has been Chinese.

Any thoughts?

Well better in game then out of it frankly.

"You can tell they are Chinese because they can't speak Korean."
Wow, all this time I've been Chinese and I never knew it. That would explain how they always have such high population numbers.

One of these days, those kids will be the leaders of Korea. And they're gonna get their arse whooped royally by those kids who will then be the leaders of China.

One of these days, those kids will be the leaders of Korea. And they're gonna get their arse whooped royally by those kids who will then be the leaders of China.
Judging by the custom with the Chinese rulers, the Chinese kids will begin to rule their country only long after the Koreans would have retired.

You've got to understand the situation. I don't play this particular game, but gold farmers are a big problem in a lot of MMORPGs.

A lot of times these gold farmers form groups of their own and kill anyone who trespass into their farming grounds.

If indescriminate player killing was allowed in, say, World of Warcraft, the exact thing would happen. Fed up players would turn on the farmers and it'd be a bloodbath.

If indescriminate player killing was allowed in, say, World of Warcraft, the exact thing would happen. Fed up players would turn on the farmers and it'd be a bloodbath.

*fond memories of very early Ultima Online at a friend's house*

We made a bunch of them that surrendered after a bloody battle march to the shrine of compassion as prisoners under the promise that we'd let them go afterwards, and then forced them to strip off naked and chopped them to bits.

Mwahahaha. Irony. :D

Jeez it's just a game... :rolleyes:

One of these days, those kids will be the leaders of Korea. And they're gonna get their arse whooped royally by those kids who will then be the leaders of China.
Its always like that.

http://thenoobcomic.com/index.html
http://thenoobcomic.com/daily/strip171.html

And that's why people should play Guild Wars.

And that's why people should play Guild Wars.

Either that or get lives.

How bored do you have to be to write about this?

Breaking News: Dwarf kills skeleton in MMORPG -- receives "phat lewt."

How bored do you have to be to write about this?

Breaking News: Dwarf kills skeleton in MMORPG -- receives "phat lewt."

Well how often do you get Koreans owning Chinese? And just think about the political propganda their government can drum up!

But yea, I agree, this is sad.

Every Chinese player I've ever seen in EVE Online, without exception, has been a macro miner.

Most MMORPGs also have monsters that are looters, I don't really see the difference with them being real players. Just kill'm, get some exp and get your loot back :P

Every Chinese player I've ever seen in EVE Online, without exception, has been a macro miner.
And it has been such great fun owning them. :D

I can't wait until i get some cash flowing to get back on WoW. Me and my buddies from college are always up for beign farmer-harmers.

Anyone else seen this wonderful shirt?

http://www.zestuff.com/product_image.php?imageid=144

I don't understand the shirt. But let me put it this way, I have opened a second EVE account which I'm training purely for the purpose of piracy and killing any low security space farmers I come across. If it's got a Chinese-sounding name and is in an NPC corp, it dies.

I miss the days of MMORPG. The glory, the genocides, the legends. All the glory of war without the horrific cost.

I don't understand the shirt.
It is based on this strip (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=155). There really is little to understand, other then that 95.7% of the people on MMORPGs are annoying n00bs with no verbal skills. The other 9.11% are annoying role-players who obssess over using "proper" language (thou, thee, etc). That leaves just 6.7% who aren't that bad, but have no comprehension of percentages.

Ah. That's more clear.

I miss the days of MMORPG. The glory, the genocides, the legends. All the glory of war without the horrific cost.
Well, we're still talking a €10 per month subscription and all those slogan t-shirts and mugs.

I don't understand the shirt. But let me put it this way, I have opened a second EVE account which I'm training purely for the purpose of piracy and killing any low security space farmers I come across. If it's got a Chinese-sounding name and is in an NPC corp, it dies.

And when I met you I thought you were a nice bloke ;) :p

Wow, all this time I've been Chinese and I never knew it. That would explain how they always have such high population numbers.
To be fair these are seperate area servers ... only thoes two countries are on some of these servers

If the korean kids were smart, they'd just write to the chinese government and tell them the game was being used to circulate tianemen square photos. The chinese would shut it down from their end in no time.

Be a lot less effort really.

If the korean kids were smart, they'd just write to the chinese government and tell them the game was being used to circulate tianemen square photos. The chinese would shut it down from their end in no time.

Be a lot less effort really.
Actually MMOs are under increasing regulation in China. From a limit on daily play (4 hours I believe), to possible bans on PVP for under-18s (rumour says), probable information requests, etc. EVE's developers, CCP, are trying to break into the Chinese market, and running an MMO on Chinese servers for them means a separate Chinese version of EVE with far greater changes than just unicode support. In-game mail and chat is already logged and retained by the system, no doubt some form of indexing for search, or maybe even a backdoor will be included. People can conceivably use the chat functions in online games to get around various internet restrictions. The authorities can be given access to that information the same way as if it was e-mail.