Re: China bans gold farming
 

If anything I find it more a showing of being a strict dictatorship-style communism than anything corporate.

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This thread is on a collision course.


One interesting thing to note about China's economy is that it is not strictly communist, it is more of a hybrid-communism style. The rural areas of the country are strictly communist, while the major cities (Hong Kong, Beijing) are strictly capitalist. This has proved to be very effective for China, but I think it is also very dangerous.

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I don't think its on a collision course, strangler is right when you look at it objectively. I'm the selfish bastard who doesn't wan't RMT in any of my games. :P

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From a gaming perspective I see where you're coming from, but from a legal perspective I think this has all kinds of bad things going on.

Theoretically I'm all for virtual economies. It shows innovation. There was a need, and ambitious young minds filled that need. Why shouldn't they be rewarded for their labors? In the words of Andrew Ryan: "Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?" :D

As for fairness in the game, well, that's for Blizzrd to figure out.

And Bond, your comments reflect exactly why I think China's actions are funny. They aren't really communist, just as any practicing communist nation isn't communist. At best they're socialist and more likely fascist with better public relations.

There never has been a true communist nation to my knowledge.

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FFXI had a completly player run economy. Anything of value in the game could only be obtained by competing iwth players for 3 to 24 hour spawns. (Some of which have HQ spawns and coudl come once every 5+ days) Anything you could obtain completly solo with no competition for it, was completly worthless.

RMT stood in the way of players in that game extremely bad. Caused the game to be extremely fustrating, lead to more people buying, and a lot of people quitting. And eventually killing what otherwise could have been a decent game.

The prices kept getting jacked up by players and RMT a lot, had very little taxes... and everything was competition... Too much capitilism for a video game. So the poor game design was easy to exploit.