Oh Brave New World, That Has Such Outsourcing Opportunities In It

Posted on July 10, 2006 by Scott Jennings| 10 Comments

Vietnam gets into the RMT farming act.

Chinh has gathered more than ten gamers so far, and they are divided into three groups to work at their online \’e2\’80\’98trade promotion centre\’e2\’80\’99 in three shifts, playing four hour shifts every day. Staff are paid VND20,000 per working hour.

\’e2\’80\’9cThe most important thing is that we have to find skilled gamers to develop stably. We are completing standards and optimising the production procedures. It is really difficult because we only have our own experience, which we garnered from game playing,\’e2\’80\’9d Chinh said.

He told his employees that gaming is a real job, with pressures and rules. Chinh said that playing games for fun and playing game to earn money are very different, and that many younger gamers who apply for a job don\’e2\’80\’99t understand this.

FYI VND20,000 = $1.25, about one tenth as much as I paid for pho noodles at lunch today. Yay for the global economy!

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  • http://www.mmogchart.com SirBruce

    RMT is sweeping through southeast Asia like a brushfire. It’s like Communism all over again.

    Bruce

  • scottj

    Yes, clearly the only response is to begin B-52 air strikes. It worked last time!

  • http://www.mmogchart.com SirBruce

    Hey man, if Truman had listened to MacArthur and nuked China in the first place, we’d never be in this mess!

  • Merkwurdigliebe

    Somewhat on topic here: I noticed an add at the bottom of your page for WoW powerleveling services from brogame.com. ;) Gotta love automatic advertising.

  • http://www.slydesblog.com Slyde

    people who pay for these types of services always amaze me…. if i was hating a part of a game enough that i didnt want to do it, and pay someone else to do it for me, then i just wouldnt play. Having to pay someone else to basically play FOR me is just lame, imo.

  • http://www.theworldtakes.com damijin

    Has anyone else noticed that $1.25 is actually pretty high wages for farming?

    Most Chinese bottom level farmers only make $200 a month! 12 hours per day/30 days = $.50 an hour.

    Move to Vietnam for higher minimum wage IMO. And also crazy governments that detain Americans for talking openly about them on chatrooms and then visiting the country.

  • http://www.theworldtakes.com damijin

    http://www.worthynews.com/christian/internet-users-remain-in-vietnam-jail-after-demanding-religious-freedom/

    (link for the vietnamese detainee story, tried to use html but it failed me! or fails on ie… or something!)

  • xaldin

    “The Ministry of Trade recently stated that it is compiling legal documents regulating such assets, thereby providing foundation for companies such as Chinh\’e2\’80\’99s to be established.”

    Ah now its not just the Koreans. Won’t it be ironic if they end up with legal backing for virtual items, but still lax about software ‘procurement’ and the Western world ends up with strict laws about software procurement but lax virtual assets. In the end it’ll behove the Asian governments in many cases to push via diplomatic channels ‘acceptance’ of virtual asset protection in return for their supporting software licensing more robustly.

  • slog

    Good Stuff. Glad to see that MMORPGS are having a postive effect in poor countries. 1.25 an hour is a lot of money for someone in Vietnam. AS I recall, the minimum wage in Vietnam was around 40 bucks a month back in the 90′s. That’s quite an improvment for the locals.

  • http://weblog.probablynot.com Jason

    Good Stuff. Glad to see that MMORPGS are having a postive effect in poor countries. 1.25 an hour is a lot of money for someone in Vietnam. AS I recall, the minimum wage in Vietnam was around 40 bucks a month back in the 90\’e2\’80\’99s. That\’e2\’80\’99s quite an improvment for the locals.

    I can just imagine the Wikipedia entry for MMORPG in about 60 years:
    “In the early 21st Century, despite many other efforts to do so, it was the MMORPG that ultimately helped to lift 3rd world countries out of poverty and allowed them overcome the obstacles of development.”