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but banned gold farming? atleast it will lower chat/forum spam for gold sites
China Bans Gold Farming
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but banned gold farming? atleast it will lower chat/forum spam for gold sites
I'm interested in finding out how the state plans to enforce this.
I just don't see this having a huge impact anytime soon, because it seems very easy to duck if you're a gold seller.
I think it's still up to the game manufacturers to provide the most effective means of preventing spam and killing seller accounts.
I just don't see this having a huge impact anytime soon, because it seems very easy to duck if you're a gold seller.
I think it's still up to the game manufacturers to provide the most effective means of preventing spam and killing seller accounts.
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asinann said:
Virtual currency is now only exchangeable for virtual goods, not real goods/services. IE you can't exchange WoW gold for real money.article said:
Hats off to china, the censorship actually hit onto something useful for once.
I know someone who would do this to the farmers in WoW, but your right, it IS funny.Link Kadeshi said:
This will reduce spam for a little while, but now people outside of China will be able to move in and start the spamming all over again.
Notice how it said "which is coverted into real money at a certain exchange rate"?guardian001 said:
That means it can still be bought and sold, but can only be used after purchase for things in game. Otherwise the companies that sell their own currency wouldn't be able to sell their own currency any more either. They aren't going to kill a multi-billion dollar industry just because a few corporations ask them to, it's bloody China. The country that just told the largest computer manufacturers in the world that the Chinese firewall will come pre-installed or they can't be sold there, and stuck to it.
That refers to currently. it is being converted at an exchange rate, this will stop that exchange rate.asinann said:
Before:
X fake $ = Y Real $
Gold farming = profitable
After:
Infinite fake $ = 0 real $
Gold farming = gone
The only reason the government of China is doing this is so that Virtual currency will not be exchangeable for Real currency. They are stopping the exchange rate. The virtual currency will be redeemable for virtual goods provided by the company who controls the virtual currency, but will not be redeemable for Actual money by outside corporations.
The company controlling the currency may (not sure about this) still be able to exchange it for real money, but outside corporations (the gold farmers) will not.
So it ends gold farming. See how that works?
Except that the law doesn't make any mention of current rates of exchange, just a rate of exchange.guardian001 said:
And again, the government of China isn't going to kill a multi-billion dollar industry based mostly in their own country.
Gold farming = low overhead high profit business.
It will continue, most likely IN China.
And even if they do (and they won't,) the gold farming will move to Vietnam, or Korea, or India, or Pakistan, or any other third world country that has some kind of internet connection and a desire for cash coming into the country.
