$100,000 to Study WoW
Well I suppose this is research. But public money to the tune of $100,000 to study a small aspect of World of Warcraft gold farming? Her comments are somewhat interesting into how the Chinese view WoW and play it, to dispel at least some myths surrounding the traditional ‘gold farmer’ label, though the focus on Americans’ modding of the game seems incredibly limited in scope to justify that amount of spending. At least with the corrupted blood incident, the potential for that research went beyond simply understanding of social aspects of online MMOs and into transmission and development of real-world diseases.
Weakly Discourse 