I think basically what it is saying it that they are banning people from selling the gold or currency that they make on online games to other people for 'real' money.
This makes the currency of the game have an actual real life exchange rate and so it becomes open to exploitation and fraud. Essentially people are exchanging their real money for nothing though, it's more of a financial risk than investing in a start up on a stock market.
Online games have been open to exploitation by bots which could be designed to play the game and continually do the simplest thing it can to make money. Imagine then how much you could 'farm' in a day if you had your own little network of say, 20 pc's. And how much you could make by selling this false money. It's like selling money from the board game monopoly, to someone.
It seems weird though that they will still allow the trading of virtual items like swords, armour, etcetera it's essentially the same thing. The problem with all this though is the fact that the computer game developers are not necessecerily benefiting from this. They want in on it and they do own the copyrights but they are not getting the moola from it so essencially trading real cash for items from their games is also a form of piracy.
Personally I do not see what all the fuss is about, it's an individual persons choice to spend their money on whatever they want to, who am I or anyone else to tell you what you should do with your money. I also in some way can respect the entrepreneurial spirit of people that can actually make real money out of this.
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Originally Posted by Professor S
Why stomp on free enterprise for no legitimate reason?
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Damn greedy corporations
