海外声音：国外玩家为魔兽前景担忧

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　　在暴雪官方网站的论坛上，一名澳大利亚华裔玩家的帖子引起了北美玩家的热烈讨论。这个名为“A Chinese View on the Farming Issue”的帖子，是针对论坛上另一位北美玩家关于WOW中“FARMING”出现可能性的预测。Farming，北美玩家对出售虚拟装备、虚拟货币的称呼。帖子的标题很醒目，FARMING FROM ASIA，在帖子中，这位玩家将北美《天堂II》中出售虚拟装备的亚洲玩家称为FARMMER，并对WOW中虚拟交易的出现表示了担忧。随即一位澳大利亚华裔玩家反驳了这种观点。

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　　以虚拟装备、货币换取现金的交易在国内很多游戏中都可以见到，虚拟装备、货币的网上交易平台近期也如雨后春笋般纷纷冒头。在国内，出售虚拟装备和货币的被称为RMB战士，购买虚拟装备及货币的玩家被称为RMB玩家。
　　
　　游戏能够成为谋生方式也许真能解决一部分就业问题。RMB交易从另一个方面证明了游戏的娱乐性与市场占有率，毕竟，没有人愿做亏本的买卖，人气不足的游戏中虚拟交易生存空间相对有限。
　　
　　魔兽世界又将如何？

　　
　　原贴：http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?FN=wow-general&T=609886&P=1
　　
　　 翻译为中文大意如下：
　　
　　我是一名住在澳大利亚的中国人。
　　
　　我玩过很多MMORPG游戏，对虚拟交易十分熟悉。在服务器停机的间隙，我想把我对虚拟交易的两点看法说出来供各位参考。
　　
　　中国有一句名言：“存在即合理”，意思是存在的东西必有其存在的理由，正如同其它任何存在于这世界的事情一样，FARMING有其好与坏的两面性。对大部分资深游戏玩家来说它的害处是十分明显的：虚拟交易常常会破坏游戏规则及游戏的娱乐性，使游戏玩家流失严重。这些害处是人人可见的，但是很少有人能看到虚拟交易其存在合理、有价值的一方面。我将就此进行说明。
　　
　　首先，它创造了就业机会。中国的人口众多，虽然失业率只有4。5%，但是，中国的失业人口仍然是美国的4倍，澳洲的60倍。Farming公司通常坐落在那些失业率较高以及比较难以找到工作的城市外围。
　　
　　有些人称farming公司为"Sweatshops"，大多数情况下，这是非常不准确的。Sweatshop通常用来描述那些雇用低价的劳动力并且工人工作长时间且工作环境较差的公司。但是，所有的farming 工人都是资源的，并且快乐的完成他们的任务。他们大多数是年轻人并且热爱游戏。现在，他们免费的玩网络游戏，享有一顿免费的食物，并获取工资。他们的服务不会因为他们没有工作而抱怨，他们的薪水实际上比大多数不在城市中的人们薪水多。
　　
　　所有涉及farming事业的人都很快乐。从工人到公司老板，从销售者到购买者。公司老板只需要花一点点时间在购买电脑，雇用员工和支付电费/网络费用上进行初期调查。然后他们就变成了容易管理的事业，并且利润客观。销售商也是这样，他们通过广告和费用的积累来获得利润。
　　
　　最后，让我们来看一下消费者。他们通常是那些没有足够时间来玩游戏的或是那些确实知道怎么升级赚钱的人。就像别的人那样，他们也希望能因为拥有高级的装备或高的等级来享受游戏。所以他们通过farming获益，就像它给了他们世界上其他人也想要的东西--快乐。
　　
　　现在也许你想问我对于FARMING的观点，支持OR反对？我想说，就让FARMING在WOW出现又如何？WOW本身已经有很好经济体系，SOUL-BIND及第一个击中猎物才能掠夺的设置将FARMING的生存空间降到最低。因此为什么要反对Farming呢，就让其他人用他们的方式获得游戏中的快感吧。
　　
　　PS：我不否认有很多素质低的中国玩家，但他们并不能代表所有的中国人。中国人口实在太多，对于任何一个国家来说，管理如此巨大的人口都不是一件容易的事。
　　
　　 英文原文如下：
　　A Chinese View on the Farming Issue
　　Hi, I am a Chinese, I live in Australia.
　　
　　I’ve played a lot of MMORPG games and I’’m very familiar with the farming issue. Since the server is down now, I will give my 2 cents towards this topic.
　　
　　In Chinese there’s a famous philosophical phrase: "存在即是合理", meaning "Things exist with proper reasons". That applies to everything legal and leginimate, in which farming is a part of. Just like anything else that exists in this world, farming has both benefits and harms. Its harms are obvious to most experienced game players - it often destroys the game economy, drives casual players away from the game, and ruins some others’ enjoyment. However its benifits are hardly discussed and I will elaborate on that.
　　
　　Firstly it creates job opportunities. China has a huge population, so even at a low 4.5% unemployment rate, the amount of jobless people in China are still 4 times greater than in USA and 60 times greater than in Australia. Farming companies usually locate in outter city areas, where unemployment rates are higher and jobs are harder to find.
　　
　　Some people describe the farming companies as "Sweatshops", IMO this is completely inaccurate. The term "Sweatshop" is used to describe factories which hire low paid workers to work long hours in poor conditions. But all farming workers are voluntary, happy and enjoying their tasks. They are mostly young people who love games. Now they get to play the online games for free, plus one free meal a day, and get paid. Their parents won’t complain anymore about them not having a job, and their salaries are actually higher than a lot of other people who do not live in city.
　　
　　Everyone involve in the farming business are happy. From the workers, to the business owners, to the wholesalers, to the buyers. Business owners only need to spend a small initial investment in purchasing computers, hiring storage and paying electricity/inte
et bills. Then they will have a easy-to-manage, hassle-free business that is profitable and 100% leginimate. So are the wholesalers, who focus on advertising and credibility cumulation to achieve profits.
　　
　　Finally let’s look at the buyers. They are usually people who don’t have a lot of time playing the game or don’t exactly know how to develop character/money in the game. But just like everyone else, they still want to enjoy the game by owning high end equipments or/and high level character(s). So they benefit from farming, as it gives them what everybody in the world want - happiness.
　　
　　Now you will probably ask do I support farming or not? Well honestly IMHO, let there be farming in WOW. Because WOW already have a good system that protects the economy. Soul-bind and loot-on-first-hit will prohibit the bad aspects of farming (e.g. looting, camping) and reduce economy deflation to the minimum. So why stop farming at all? Let other people have fun in their own ways and us in our own. Full stop.
　　
　　 P.S. Regarding the racism issue, I think most of the criticism towards Chinese farmers are fair and unbiased. There are a lot of low moral Chinese players, but that does not reflect the rest of the population. And always remember it is not easy for any country to manage a huge population.