World of Warcraft, how gold is made to sell

Playing World of Warcraft you often see people trying to sell gold to players in the game, i found this article which says how some of the gold

A 54-year-old former prison guard, was jailed for three years for illegallypetitioning the Chinese government to crack down on corruption. By day,Liu was forced to labour in the Jexi labor camp in northeast China, breaking rocks in coal mines, carving chopsticks and toothpicks out of planks of wood,and assembling car seat covers.

But after hours, he had more work to do "gold farming." Liu says prisoners are forced to buildup credits in online games such as World of Warcraft The credits are then sold to gamers overseas for real cash.

Prison bosses made more money forcing inmates to play games than they do forcing people to do manual labour," Liu told the Guardian. "There were 300 prisoners forced to play games. They worked 12-hour shifts in the camp. It was heard they could earn 5,000-6,000rmb [£470-570] a day. The prisoners didn't see any of the money though.

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World of Warcraft (WoW), Brewfest

In WoW during the year they have different events this time of the year its Brewfest, i think it is to do with Oktoberfest that runs in October, this year Brewfest is running between September 20 - October 4

Some of the things you can do are

• Ram Racing -where you pick up kegs of brew from Kharanos or Razor Hill and bringing them back to the fest.


• Barkers Wanted - where you'll be given a ram to hurry you on your way, spreading the word around Orgrimmar or Ironforge about who makes the best brew.
• Defend the Fest - when The Dark Iron Clan dwarves try to ruin the event for everyone you get cups of beer and throw the beer at The Dark Iron Clan dwarves killing them
  
• Seek the Saboteurs - where you go to Blackrock Depths with a party of five players do battle against Coren Direbrew where special rewards including epic weapons, trinkets, and rare mounts.

The rare mounts are a Brewfest Kodo which is what i got.

This is me sitting the Brewfest Kodo that won out near the front of Ironforge

To find out more about Brewfest Event you can go to World Of Warcraft Website