Perpare for Toon Town suck action but insulting every comicbook fan around the world. Diseny bought it from Stain Lee, so hang'em and burn'em for sending marvel to the devil mouse.

In reponce on this subject:

I am of a guild that is very small, very overran by leeches....But I like the guild master, he is cool to run with....I have a bunch of ,dare I say it, friends who I run with in raids (lvl 70 raids atm) so I'm not in a guild for runs. Friends are for runs, guilds are just for show. Enough said.

Very objective in that report, thankyou.

I think MMOs have just about seen the golden age are about to pop into some of the crappest things around (if not already).  Wizard of the Coast might be getting another go at vaccuming up my account.

I've seen great MMOs come and then die as the next latest and greatest company that promises so much then disappoints in failure after failure to correct issues that were in the last great MMO.... Seriously, Wizard isn't nearly as back about screawing up in MTG as Blizzard, Mythic, and Sony have been to the MMO world... Laying off the backbone of the MMO creation is a sign of the death of MMOs....

As for why MTG is messed up , not as bad as MMOs: damage is no longer on the stack wracks many a extended, legecy, and vintage red deck...

Originally posted by Beatnik59

From what I'm reading, this law is going to do nothing to stop gold farming.  If anything, it is only going to increase the gold farmers' impact.

What this law is designed to do is to prevent gold farmers from acquiring real goods and services for virtual gold.  It does not, however, prevent gold farmers from acquiring real currency for virtual gold.  If anything, the law only strengthened the relationship between real currency and virtual gold, because it admits that virtual gold "is converted into real money at a certain exchange rate."

I presume the law was created because people were using virtual currency to engage in transactions that would be illegal if done with regular currency: things like gambling and prostitution.  They might also be using virtual currency to purchase goods and services without having to pay tax.  The Chinese government don't want that, obviously.

But this law says nothing about selling gold for real dollars...or yuan...or euros.  In fact, that's probably the only thing you can get for virtual gold under this law.  So instead of decreasing the impact of gold farmers in the game, this law is going to increase it.  Since the farmers can no longer buy food, a nice date, or a casino binge with virtual gold; all the people using farming to get those things are now going to be farming for dollars and euros.

And don't think for a moment that China doesn't like a ton of dollars and euros coming into their economy.

Ok, I see gold farming being a mouth watering temptation in WoW....But in Warhammer you must be without a doubt a lazy mold covering your brain caural player to buy gold......It so bloomin easy to get that I have a 20 gold surplus on my Tier 1 character....So if you want to toss money into a black hole, goto church and tith.
 

Only company this is going to hurt is Second Life, good ridence.

Nevermind that if that happened the retribution would be seen from Mars, it would be done from the comfort of Norrad. Little man, big gun syndrome. That's all this is.