Nexon appears to have walked back a promise to not nerf a popular The First Descendant gold farm loot cave, an hour after telling players it did not wish to remove the grinding method. The ...

Nexon announced a hotfix for The First Descendant on its official Discord, nerfing gold farms like Valby Run. Fans were surprised by the decision to nerf the popular gold farming method, as the ...

The Forge rewards smart players: mine high-tier ore, forge Heavy Armor or Colossal Swords, or kill monsters for essence drops ...

It doesn't sound all that terrible in theory, but purchasing gold gained through gold farming can have disastrous consequences on a game's economy. Increasing the amount of gold available on a server ...

I'm not sure when or from where the mental image crawled into my brain, but I've got a firm impression of what a Chinese gold farming operation looks like. The lighting and decor is that of an ...

Gold farming has been a growing trend among the online game community for the past decade and recent studies show that one in four gamers purchase this “gold” in order to obtain higher levels in multi ...

Gold farming may be looked down upon in the world of massively multiplayer online games, but players cannot deny its existence (or its prevalence). A labor camp in Jixi, China has taken the practice ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. What do we know for sure about gold farming? Not nearly enough, according to University of Manchester professor Richard Heeks. In a recently released ...

With Diablo III, Blizzard will attempt to legitimize a black market tradition of gold farming by letting players auction off virtual items and gold for real-world currency. A separate version of ...

ICTs for Development is a blog where the contributors are all associated with academia, specifically the University of Manchester's Centre for Development Informatics, which focuses on the role of ...