Re: Ask garcia1000 about Hong Kong
I am hafl-jokingly thinking about opening an mmorpg "sweatshop" and was told to consider Hong Kong. If you are unfamiliar with it: An MMORPG is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game, such as World of Warcraft. These games have persistent worlds that people pay monthly to own a character in, and they play these characters to gain items and experience to fight bigger monsters. A lot of the items that people can equip their characters with will sell on Ebay for real $. If you sold everything you got in some games, you can usually make between $1 and $5 per hour. I am looking rent out an office/building, fit it with several dozen computers, and hire people to play the game so I can sell the items to rich Americans who don't have time to play the game themselves.
My questions about Hong Kong are:
Have you heard of anyone doing this in Hong Kong?
Are there areas where $0.50/hr is competitive pay?
Is there reliable internet connection in those areas?
Can you think of any other reasons Hong Kong would be good/bad for such a business?
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