Gold farming is playing a massively multiplayer online game to acquire in-game currency, e.g. gold. Richard Heeks, Development Informatics Group IDPM, SED, University of Manchester, UK - 2008 This is then usually sold, against the wishes of the game's operator, to other players. bbc.
(Gold Farmer) Characters (typically played by more than one person so they can be online 24/7) that do nothing but farm money and high-value loot in order to sell in-game gold to other players for real-world money, or sell rare and epic drops to other players for gold.
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