游戲“工人” playbourer
[ 2009-08-12 15:34 ]
原來聽過地主家雇長短工干活兒,也聽過資本金雇傭勞動力獲取暴利。而今到了網絡時代,連玩游戲也可以雇人替你玩兒了,看來這金錢的力量還是不能低估啊。對了,雇來替你玩游戲的人也有名字,他們叫playbourer。
In popular online games like World of Warcraft, players acquire virtual gold by fighting monsters and completing quests. Instead of struggling to do this themselves, players in richer nations can simply get someone else to do it for them via a playbourer, a person employed to play the games all day long.
在《魔獸世界》這樣熱門的在線游戲中,玩家通過戰勝魔獸以及完成指令來獲得虛擬黃金。身在富裕國家的很多玩家通常都不會辛苦自己去完成這些任務,而是讓專門雇來成天玩游戲的“工人”為他們賺取“黃金”。
A playbourer, the blend of “play” and “labourer”, is therefore a person employed to earn points, equipment or other goods, especially 'gold', in an online game. These virtual commodities can then be sold over the Internet to make real money.
由此可知,playbourer(游戲工人)(play(玩)和labourer(勞工)兩個詞的合成詞)就是被雇來賺取在線游戲中的點數、裝備或其他物資的人。這些虛擬商品可以通過網絡出售并換取真實貨幣。
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