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There is a huge market for farming Materials and gold in WOW. One could make an income from farming......but it in no way compares to what you could be making grinding low level poker.

WOW has sustained the economies of many underdeveloped regions, simply by having employees grind gold and rare materials. (arcane crystals, Black lotus).

But his would not translate to a living wage in the USA.

But for many south asian communities, it provideds a job and respectable way of life.

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What are you talking about? Real money? Please elaborate.

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"farmers" make real money off of gather items in WOW. They sell thes items, and the sell gold on ebay or through an eztablished "gold seller" website. People pay money for gold transferred to their account. Stabn illustrated this nicely. Americans will pay 110-140$$ per 1000 WOW gold. This is collected throught paypal, then reimbursed to to companies which mine gold. WOW use this money as currency in game to buy items that help them progress. (potions, rare materials to build gear, and repair money).

1000 gold will buy you a months worth of repair bills, and other high end materials to build legendary weapons. (30 arcanite bars)/ FYI thunderfury a legendary sword requires 100 arcanie bars which cost 35 gold on my server. That meant to get a legendary item crafted it may cost 3500g of materials.(arcanite) Which can be purchased for 300-400 Us dollars.


In short; farmers do the heavy lifiting providing the materials, and americans pay real $$ to materials to have their weapons built.
The SE asian communities which supply the gold have a room full of players constantly mining gold and items, to sell to americans willing to pay for such services.