The fight against gold farming moves to a governmental level...

Over at Gamespot, an article has been posted concerning the Japanese government beginning to start a study (and perhaps investigation) of the secondary market!

The practice of real money trading, the exchange of in-game currency from a massively multiplayer online game for actual real-world money, is becoming a growing concern. No longer is it simply a concern of the publishers who operate these games; now the Japanese government is opening up its own investigation into the practice.

It's good to see a government beginning to take this issue seriously... now if only we could get the Chinese government to do the same *ahem*

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Last Updated: Mar 29, 2016

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Jeff joined the Ten Ton Hammer team in 2004 covering EverQuest II, and he's had his hands on just about every PC online and multiplayer game he could since.

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