by Jeff Woleslagle on Jul 25, 2006
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*