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General: Gold Farmers to Fight Korean Government

GFullsGFulls Member Posts: 478
in News & Features Discussion

ETNEWS is running a story that the leading Gold Farming companies in Korea are forming an association to combat government restrictions.

The country's leading game item trading businesses are gearing up to form an industry association dubbed the 'Digital Asset Distribution Promotion Association,' as the government moves to restrict what it sees as illegal trading.


Read the full article here.

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  • thepatriotthepatriot Member UncommonPosts: 284
    That website requires a subscription to read the full article.
  • NytemareNytemare Member Posts: 59
    I don't want to subscribe to that site but would like to read that article....Can you just copy n paste the article here?
  • leozapleozap Member Posts: 21

    they formed companies? wow

    now the world belongs to korean famers.

    chinese farmers can retire now.

  • LemacsLemacs Member UncommonPosts: 121
    Big Deal they will move there servers to another country and let someone else do the farming.

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  • thepatriotthepatriot Member UncommonPosts: 284
    Originally posted by Nytemare

    I don't want to subscribe to that site but would like to read that article....Can you just copy n paste the article here?
    That would violate copyright laws.  They should just remove this news article from mmorpg.com.
  • RobbgobbRobbgobb Member UncommonPosts: 674
    Go Korea government. Make them stop and then spend money on battling you.
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,070

    Most this would accomplish is to push gold farming to another country.... wait... it already is done in other countries

    nm....

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  • MrbloodworthMrbloodworth Member Posts: 5,615
    I posted this like 3 days ago =p

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  • DabbleDabble Member Posts: 1,043

    why are they posting articles that we can't read?  I mean, yeah, we CAN read it, if we join that site...

     

    but no thanks

  • spankybusspankybus Member UncommonPosts: 1,367
    Hey, I bet we know now as much as you do, which is "Korean Gold Farmers are actually going to fight the Gov't in its efforts to ban the activity. Before I got here, i didn't know that. Usually i don't even check the forums or the article, the headline tells me pretty much the gist of what the story is about, anything else is just more work for less info. Beyond that, no worries. I doubt garrett has a subscription to a Korean IT magazine, so he probably read as much as we got to read, and just wanted us to see it too.  He figured he'd share the little bit of info that was readable, because that's what we do :-)

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  • ThonyThony Member Posts: 215

    Yup even tho the artical  was short it kinda said it all, for those that like some more reading about the flourishing trade of virtual items for real–life money read the following (big read but quit intresting, maybe should be made a topic )

    http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_2/grimmelmann/

  • ntcrawlerntcrawler Member Posts: 329
    Not only does our money we use to buy drugs go to the terrorists but now my gold money goes to buy grenades and tanks to combat the oppressive korean government so that these guerilla farmers can sell me more gold.
  • RainStarRainStar Member Posts: 638

    Here's a good article on the subject:

    www.raphkoster.com/2007/01/22/gold-farmers-form-trade-association/

  • xrebelxrebel Member Posts: 133
    Well, with the Chinese governments new restrictions on MMO gaming, the farmers gotta have some country to play from!



    the term "Chinese Gold Farmer" will no longer be applicable

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4183340.stm

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  • spankybusspankybus Member UncommonPosts: 1,367
    Originally posted by xrebel

    Well, with the Chinese governments new restrictions on MMO gaming, the farmers gotta have some country to play from!



    Blame Canada!. First Brian Adams, now Gold Farming, Oh The HUMANITY!!!!

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  • DrowNobleDrowNoble Member UncommonPosts: 1,297

    Would be nice if they are putting the smack down on gold farming.

    Too bad I can't read the article! 

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