Six figures farming gold?

[Sodom]

Wage Slaves article from Computer Gaming World.

[Axecleaver]

Sack's typical 12-hour sessions can earn his employers as much as $60,000 per month while he walks away with a measly $150.

Interesting article, but I'm not sure those numbers add up. 12 hours a day * 30 days a month is 360 hours of farming with a hunter/priest combo (kind of a weird one imo). This is supposed to earn his company $60,000.

IGE is selling gold for $52/500g. So $60k would mean filling 1153 orders in a month -- that amount of sales seems pretty surprising on a single server, but let's assume the demand side isn't a problem. Sack would need to be filling 1153 orders in 360 hours, or roughly 3.2 500g blocks an hour.

I find it extremely difficult to believe he's making 1600g an hour for 12 hours at a time, day after day after day. Even 10% of that is beyond believable.

Edit: Later in the article it mentions "20g an hour spots." That's more reasonable. I think this 60k a month is really $600/month/farmer minus expenses. A 100-farmer installation would get you 60k.

[Lifesbane]

"A macro that uses a teleportation exploit in WOW is currently going for $3,000"

...that was free on blizzhackers.com hehe

edit -

"IGE is selling gold for $52/500g. So $60k would mean filling 1153 orders in a month.......Sack would need to be filling 1153 orders in 360 hours, or roughly 3.2 500g blocks an hour."

also Sack works for the wholesellers, so they're selling it to IGE for less then what IGE sells it for (obviously lol).

"I find it extremely difficult to believe he's making 1600g an hour for 12 hours at a time, day after day after day. Even 10% of that is beyond believable."

yea its definetly hard to believe he's making that much. he is running 10 botting accounts though, so i would amagine he is pulling in quite a bit.

(Edited by Lifesbane at 1:06 pm on July 8, 2005)