China: Making Playing Video Games Suck Since 1872

A labor camp in northeast China: break rocks and dig trenches in open coalmines by day. Slay demons, battle goblins, cast spells at night.

That's right, being a prisoner in some places in China means...being forced to play video games!

But it's not the fun and games it sounds like.

The prisoners were used to build up credits for the prison guards who would basically trade them for real money. When you can amass enough of it, this fictional gold can be worth a whole lot of real-world money to gamers who use the digital gold to progress in games. One of the former prisoners said it was an even more lucrative project than the hard manual labor they were forced to do.

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