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Gold farming is a general term for an MMORPG activity in which a player attempts to acquire
("farm") items of value which are sold to create stocks of in-game currency ("gold"), usually
by exploiting repetitive elements of the game's mechanics.
Once a gold farmer or workshop has created a stockpile of currency, they will try to sell it.
This then becomes "gold trading"/"gold selling"; also known as secondary real money trading.
In practice, the term gold farming is often used to cover both making the gold and selling it.
The sale of virtual items and assets found its way into auction sites such as eBay from the late 1990s. Although it was a common sight to see gold farmers list their virtual items on these sites, the sale of these virtual items did not actually take place there. More commonly, these sites were used by gold traders to facilitate the sale on their own website, making more 500€ for day.