False Alarm: Gold Farming Still Legal in China
Posted 07/02/09 at 12:23:44 AM by Nathan Grayson
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Earlier this week, we (along with every other tech/gaming site on the Internet) reported that the Chinese government had put the kibosh on gold farming once and for all – something that, to many, sounded like a dream come true. Well wake up, because reality has decided to toss a cold bucket of water on your spam-free fantasy land. Richard Heeks of the University of Manchester explained:
“This is a government restriction on the use of the quasi-Paypal-like currencies (mainly QQ coins) that are used extensively in China to pay for virtual game stuff. As announced they can now only be used to pay for virtual stuff, and you can’t buy real things with them as game companies were allowing to happen, nor can you gamble.”
“This therefore is not about what gold farming clients do: use real money to buy these virtual currencies; it’s the mirror image. And it’s not about the major trade in gold farming such as World of Warcraft, which relates to other types of virtual currency.”
So there you have it. Rumors of gold farming’s death were greatly exaggerated. Shame, too because BUY GOLD BUY GOLD BUY GOLD AT WWW.AREYOUBUYINGGOLDYET.COM, YOUR SOURCE FOR GOLD THAT YOU CAN BUY.
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Submitted by mesiah on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 12:04am
Allow me to stick my tongue out and strut around saying I told you so :D China isn't interested in stopping people from making them more money, they just want to stop gambling.
Submitted by lumpoco on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 11:57pm
I have never heard of gold farming much less World of Warcraft. Now I have to check these two items out.
Submitted by Dulock on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 10:05pm
That wasn't a real gold buying website. I'm shocked and dismayed, now how am I supposed to get that epic uh...thing...that I wanted real bad that dropped off that...guy...that I was unable to kill by myself?!
Submitted by Beans on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 9:52pm
wouldnt gold farming stop if MMO companies like blizzard sold gold? then there would be no reason for players to go to third party gold sources.
Submitted by LordPyro on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 4:50am
No it wouldn't, because gold farming at least puts other items into the market to balance out the ingame currency, if the company that produced the game did this they would simply generate more money and there would be huge inflation problems.
And for what its worth - any good MMO has many ways to combat gold purchasing:
For instance, in WoW you can't buy everything, most of the high level armors are not tradable, once you get into raid level, everything you use is bind on pickup for the most part.
So the only thing gold buyers really make off with in WoW are things that don't matter in the long run, like mounts and such.
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