In news, so oddly weird it must be true, I think I've finally heard everything now. I've heard of slave labor, and I've heard of people who get paid to farm for goods or experience in a MMORPG, but I never thought someone would be so cruel to merge the two, such as the case of incidents that are happening in China right now.

From the article:

It is known for a while that there companies in China and other countries that pay workers to play WOW to generate virtual money which in turn is then sold to gamers around the world who want to jump-start their game character.

A Chinese TV station followed kids with a hidden camera who fell for the cool proposition to get paid for playing video games. It is borderline slavery what these kids have to endure. 12 hour WOW every day, almost no pay and shitty food. This is a new form of child labor and nobody should actually buy from gold farmers.

Read the full article over at i4u.com