What is gold farming?
'gold farming means the real-world sale of virtual goods and services produced in online games. For example,many online games have a virtual economy and an in-game currency. Gold farmers can play in-game to make some currency. They then sell that for real money – typically via a web site and using the PayPal payment system – to other players of the game'
In a nutshell,its the playing of MMORPGs like World of Warcraft specifically for points or skills,and selling off those rewards to other players for real money.... Small businesses in China,for example,establish a location with 10 computers or so,and hire people to continuously play these games for points,or for 'gold' in the world of warcraft example. They can then sell off what they've earned to other players.
I expect this to be over the heads of most people,and I'm pretty sure I won't be able to explain it thoroughly in this post,so I invite people to google/wikipedia the topic if they want to learn more.
The reason I bring this up is because of all the hype surrounding BPO following the launching of TEAMS and SEACOM. Now,for the ordinary aspiring entrepreneurs like you and me,establishing a call centre is out of our reach because of the large amounts of capital investment involved. But gold farming requires significanly less,and people are actually making money out of this sort of thing if anybody cares to do some research.
I think this could be just as big as BPO?,but it's not going to be easy.