holy shit were all out of jobs!

[Khatovar]

A report in the English-language China Daily says that in-game gear is not considered virtual currency, so selling virtual items may be allowed to continue.

I had already started seeing the shift to this before I quit. Instead of spamming about gold, they were spamming BOEs. What we'll end up seeing is goldsellers holding the AH hostage, using whatever gold they aren't allowed to sell to buy gear, weapons, enchanting mats, ores, gems, whatever, then turning around and selling it on websites. 10 stacks of titanium ore for $XXXUSD. Enchanting Leveling kit, all mats for 1-450, $XXXUSD.

Instead of having to liquidate accounts to get gold to sell, they'll just use the gold they swipe to restock the items they can sell, and continue on.

[Tonuss]

/LOL
Please read the artical completely. This will not stop 2nd Market Service nor Gold Farming.

It seems to be aimed at a particular service, which has agreed to comply with the new law. Therefore it's very possible that you are right, and China wasn't thinking about WoW and has no plans to interfere with gold farming or PL services in WoW. I'm wondering though, if this gives Blizzard any options for petitioning the Chinese government to help them with the issue, or if the Chinese government would bother to try and stop gold farming in WoW if asked. My guess is probably not.

It still amazes me that in a game where character progression and money collecting has gotten so easy, that there would still be a large market for gold sales. But it doesn't even seem to be slowing down.

[hendrata]

My feeling is that they'll still do it illegally. This is simply a statement from the Chinese government that they're against gold trading, but I don't think they'll really do anything about it nor enforce it actively. Just like the pirated movies market or fake Louis Vuitton handbag market, it's against the law but yet it's everywhere and the government doesn't really enforce the law.

[TeK23]

Guys we are talking about Chinese Government here. That should be enough to know that it doesn't matter.

The Chinese governement is the worlds large group of hackers and horriblly corrupt. They just finished their hardware encryption systems to stop other governments from hacking them. This way they can continue to hack us, but we can't rehack their systems to find out what they got.

Blizzard will not contact the Chinese Goverment, did you know that China still doesn't have WOTLK!! Also majority of the computers in china don't even have a legal version of windows! It's all cracked versions same with majority of their software because they can't afford retail prices. China is a poor country and the people doing the work are poor and this is how they make a living, playing games and farming gold for our convienence.

There is so much stuff going on with Chiense Governement it's pretty scary once you get into it and find out what's really going on.

Also breaking an EULA is not illegal, it's an Agreement between the client and the company. No different then breaking your parents rules, as they will punish you as they see fit. Blizzard does the same thing with suspensions and account closures.

The companies that are sued by blizzard are breaking the LAW "US Federal Laws!".
MDY - Glider: Broke Copyright Laws
Others Companys: Broke the Spam Laws (spamming in-game mail)

That's why you don't see as much in-game spam mail or anymore because it's Illegel! Most legit companies do not want to be sued and stays within the law.

The real issue you run into is with forgien sites that don't care and spam in-game and all of this crap junk spam email. Because they can't be sued as they are not affected by US Laws and their country premits such acts and behavior.

Sorry on a rant again. /lol

[Seraphaw]

Sorry on a rant again. /lol

Hey, as long as I can buy really cheap World of Warcraft CD-keys instantly I am happy.
I still can, right? I won't get my payment rejected or something if I use the "off" site?

[TeK23]

Again in the article it didn't state anything about World of Warcraft. They where talking about another product and CD-Keys/Game cards, etc... are not made in china. How these CD-Key sites sell them for so cheap are 2 ways:

1. They are Black Keys (key generators, stolen etc...) But legit sites do not deal in these keys and so you don't have to worry about it.
2. Exchange Rates. A trick alot of CD-Key sites use is buying their keys from countries they have good $$ exchange rate with. Example: US companies buying their keys from austrilia! The keys are like $3-5 less per key and when you are buying 1000-10,000+ Keys that's alot of savings!

Most companies uses the Exchange Rate Trick to get keys even companies in China! That's why the worlds largest key wholesale company is in austrilia (atleast the last i heard they where the largest seller) and they are normally out of keys because everyone buys from them. /lol

So China has nothing to do with CD-Keys

[mmcookies]

This policy stems from a fear that a conglomerated virtual currency (federated, multiple vendors) might compete with the national currency.
(Online trading is getting uncomfortably large in China for the fossils sitting in power)

It also gives them an excuse to prosecute the exchange as black market, when it's convenient to do so.

The war on gold farming is total BS.