Gold Farming

What is Gold Farming?

I want to say a little about gold farming. Now, that term is used in the game to describe the rather boring process of doing mundane tasks to accumulate gold. Not the most efficient or fun way to spend your time and if you are looking to learn how to make gold, you probably don't want to spend countless hours doing this. Like I said before, if you want a job, go get one.

That leads me to the other meaning for gold farming. There are actually people who work in sweatshop type environments over in China and in some third world countries who farm gold all day long as a way to stay alive. (I'm writing this for newbies, so if you know this, deal with it). These companies then re-sell the gold to buyers from more affluent parts of the world. These buyers are basically people who see the trade off in time saved as a good deal for what they receive for their money.

I'm mentioning gold farming for a couple of reasons and I'm not getting into sweatshop ethics. There have been a few articles popping up recently, or maybe I just happened to come across them, related to gold farming. If you are a new player you may be tempted to buy some of this gold. Hey, do what you want, but you should be aware that it could get your account suspended or terminated. If you want to roll the dice, that's up to you. But the WoW powers that be do not like the practice.

Personally, I won't buy the third world gold farming product. I'd rather make gold myself. It feels a little like cheating to me (but that is just me so don't get yourself in a twist if you happen to be a gold buyer). I don't really care what you do with your own account. People wear clothes made in sweatshop conditions all of the time. Gold farming is just making big news now because the online gamers taking advantage of it are a huge market and the money they are spending caught the eye of some "hot news" type bloggers.

If you do want to learn about how to make gold in the most efficient manner, there are about a thousand guides out there. You can find some decent information for free, but it could take you a while. You can also buy a how to make gold guide that is designed to show you how to make gold quickly. Just an FYI, many of them are garbage. I've gone through some of them and I'll save you some trouble. I didn't write any of these, they are just the most popular and they are probably the most popular because they are some of the best:
1. World of Warcraft Gold Secrets

2. Zygor In-Game Alliance & Horde World Of Warcraft 1-80 Leveling Guides

3. Dugi's Ultimate World of Warcraft Guide

4. Warcraft Millionaire

Like I said, there are a lot of other how to make gold guides out there but these are probably the most popular. If you want to read more, here is a link to a site with some gold guide reviews.