Comments on: Wages of virtual sin

By: Cybercat

Cybercat — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:18:41 +0000

Gold farming is not illegal in China. This is a post about a blog post about a news snippet on another blog post about a very small news printing from China. I thought you guys would know better :p

By: Dominic Gugas

Dominic Gugas — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:22:33 +0000

What’s the crime? Report doesn’t say, but it could be they’re seen as defrauding the company operating WoW, could be that their business is unlicensed or doesn’t meet some of China’s myriad bureaucratic regulations… or could just be that the authorities see them as bringing their country into disrepute and so will punish them for something to make a point. That’s China for you.

By: jackdonkey

jackdonkey — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:27:32 +0000

What’s the crime here? tax evasion? If it’s unfair revenue distribution wouldn’t they only arrest the one guy?

By: MMORPG Info » Gold Selling Can Lead to Jail

MMORPG Info » Gold Selling Can Lead to Jail — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:11:20 +0000

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By: cliff

cliff — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:28:29 +0000

I didn’t know it was illegal there… learn something new every day.

By: damijin

damijin — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:11:05 +0000

I’m betting gold farmers are not the exactly the best citizens in terms of following tax codes and reporting earnings.

Nice 9-month haul though for only 20 people!