Known from a revealing profile of one of the class top virtual currencies selling company, the population of gold farmers in China is estimated at 1 million in gold selling industry. Gold selling business involves World of Warcraft gold, Warhammer online gold selling.

The spokesperson of this gold selling company claims in his report saying that larger gold-selling firms use up to 1000 farmers such as WOW gold farmers, Warhammer gold farmers to generate their product in-game.

"Benjamin", one of the traders says, the yearly turnover for all these enterprises combined is estimated at over 10 billion US dollars. The USD 2 billion figure quoted in last week's piece, where it was also said that 30 per cent of all MMO players buy World of Warcraft gold and other game gold. World of Warcraft players make up 70 per cent of this real-money trading activity. So Blizzard really creates a miracle! People really can't believe that a game can generate such a large market.