Here’s a recent encounter I had with a Warcraft (alleged!) farmer while I was merrily harvesting Dreamfoil in Azshara.
I have some screenshots to aid the storytelling!
La la la, I love running around LIKE AN IDIOT in a zone peppered with annoying elite mobs and nuking giant birds! La la la, I love visiting all the spots that SHOULD have dreamfoil, but they’re empty now because 89 other players are also looking for dreamfoil.
So I’m talking to Raster about the Vanguard beta — we’re trying to sneak into the beta, no luck on that so far — when a fellow rogue sends me a cryptic tell:
I respond in kind … cryptically.
Who is this mystery rogue questioning my dreamfoil harvest techniques?
Hail, Farmer with the Stupid Farm Guild Name! I check out the rest of his stupid farm guild with a /who:
Makes sense. One guy covers Azshara, the other is in Tyr’s Hand bringing in those sheaves. Probably, they’re all rejoicing while bringing in the sheaves.
Whatever. I consider the encounter over and move to the other side of the zone. However, he’s not done with me yet:
Now, I don’t speak any of the Asian languages, and none of that is in my handy dandy game translation reference, so I responded with the only phrase I do know off the top of my head, plus some gibberish characters to add some authenticity.
Phone that into the mothership, Mr. Shuo Ni Ne. All your dreamfoil are belong to us.
I am glad to see someone is actually aware of our farming friends. I found your website thanks to a quick google on ‘gold’ ‘farming’ ‘warcraft’, and your insights have been invaluable in discovering these people on my own server. One late night, whilst heavily inebriated, I invited several of these farmers (who incidentally all happened to be level 60 hunters, in Maraudon) to join my group – and amazingly they did. I too tried my hand at international relations, only to be met with terse responses. Even typing ‘$$$$$’ was met with confusion, followed by an uneasy silence.
I have tried to discuss the potential effects on the economics of the game with my fellow server inhabitants, but the general feeling is a) I don’t care, or b) I’m too busy buying gold off ebay to care.
I demand that you continue your relentless persuit of these people, as it’s quite funny to read about.
You have said the speech I have not been able to understand.
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