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Hired gamers sit in makeshift factories earning higher video game characters to sell around the world? I guess there’s a market for everything right?

Every day, in 12-hour shifts, they kill monsters and harvest “gold coins” and other virtual goods that they can sell to other online gamers. From Seoul to San Francisco, gamers who lack the hours or the patience to work their way up to the higher levels of gamedom, are hiring young Chinese to play the early rounds for them.

Does anyone know someone that purchased pre-played WOW [World of Warcraft] accounts in order to bypass the beginner levels?

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