Posted by
Yunfeng Gao on Monday, March 31, 2008 6:04:48 AM
Some of you may have bought gold or used
powerleveling service before. Some people like it;
some hate it. It is somehow considered as nasty, illegal trading, breaking the balance of
MMORPG and
exploit the resource in game. Whatever the argument is, the industry has been there for a while and some people are
still using the service.While the largest gold selling and
powerleveling is based in USA, the largest scale of gold “farmers” are in China.
This is an seemingly unknown area to some players Super Continental USA LLC. is the host for
akgame.com, which sells
WoW gold,
WoW powerleveling, Lineage 2 adena,
Final Fantasy gil and Guild Wars platinum etc. Registered in USA , most of the employees are in Harbin, a metropolitan
in northeast China.They started off from a group of 20 people and gradually developed into a company which consists of 300 employees.
These people behind your computer monitor are the ones who work hard to keep gold selling and
powerleveling going
smoothly.Suki, 22, is one of the customer service staff. She graduated from Guangdong Polytechnic University in
June 2007 and has since been working at
akgame.Her job includes live chatting with customers answering all sorts of
questions regarding gold selling and
powerleveling. Customer service people have to work three shifts 24 hours to
make sure customer’s questions are sorted out anytime. She is on night shift this week. Translation: she is an night
owl this week.She’s been longing to go to Maldives. “I want to go there for holiday someday before it sinks to the bottom of the ocean.
” She says. She is also interested in the architectures in Cambodia. “There is a philosophy behind those temples. They
reveal a simple but profound truth about humanity: there is both a good side and an evil side in everyone’s heart.
In other words, heaven and hell are both in your heart. It is up to you to either go up to heaven or down to hell.
When asked about the industry she says it is a fairly new industry compared to other conventional ones.
The World today is changing at an amazingly fast pace. We have to keep an eye on it not to get left behind.
2000 miles all the way from Northeastern China to this warm, humid and rainy South China metropolitan,
it is Alex. It takes 35 hours to travel from his home city Shenyang to Harbin. Graduated from Northeastern University
in 2006 with a Bachelor degree in computing science, he is responsible for in-game advertising. He has been playing WoW
for 2 years. “ I love this job,” Alex said, “Moreover it is a dream job ‘cause you are doing what you enjoy doing.
Not everyone is lucky enough to get their dream job.”Although disliked by some players, in-game advertising is part of the advertising campaign.
“I hope players could understand us. Trading is part of the game and it makes it possible that those who don’t have time playing, say, a lot of military soldiers on the move, to level up the character. Some of them told me
they are in Iraq on a mission that they could die tomorrow. The reason why they used our service is that they don’t have
time to play.” Alex commented.Alex has just hooked up with a sexy girl, Tina, who is also an employee at akgame.
Now he’s got his dream girl, doing his dream job. Oh, what a lucky guy!Jian-feng never talks too much unless asked about games. He is a graduate from Nanchang University.
Right after he graduated in 2007 he started working at
akgame.It seems
MMORPG has nothing to do with his University major – ecommerce.
But for Jian-feng it is a wonderful thing. “People say you can’t have a job playing games.But I actually found a job like that, which is the reason why I am here.
” He was playing a game called <Shaiya> created by a Korean company, Aeria Games & Entertainment when he was talking to me.
“I’ve played a lot of
MMORPGs, like WoW, RuneScape, Shaiya, Lineage 2, Final Fantasy, the list goes on and on. There is just so much fun in it. When you play long enough, you find
it’s kind of like your real life, you know? You can’t live without it. I used to play RuneScape, I made a couple of friends in the game. I became good friends with a guy from New Zealand.
His dad is from Hong Kong and her mom is an Indonesian. When he stopped playing he gave his account to me for free.
” He said, “You are attached to the game. It’s like your second life, another world, a world different from reality.
I love it. I believe there are thousands of people around the world loving it too.”These are some of the people who work day and night to ensure the fast, secure and reliable service of
akgame.
And there are many more stories waiting to be told.