12-11-2005, 12:50 PM
Quote:One of China's newest factories operates here in the basement of an old warehouse. Posters of "World of Warcraft" and "Magic Land" hang above a corps of young people glued to their computer screens, pounding away at their keyboards in the latest hustle for money.
...from Seoul to San Francisco, affluent online gamers who lack the time and patience to work their way up to the higher levels of gamedom are willing to pay the young Chinese here to play the early rounds for them.
...the creation of hundreds--perhaps thousands--of online gaming factories here in China. By some estimates, there are well over 100,000 young people working in China as full-time gamers, toiling away in dark Internet cafes, abandoned warehouses, small offices and private homes.
Most of the players here actually make less than a quarter an hour...
full article: http://news.com.com/Ogre+to+slay+Outsour...tag=cd.top