Let's try this little "experiment", shalle we. Just humor me for a few virtual seconds. :lol: You go to your real life job and do what you must to put some cash in your bank. You use direct deposit. You save and save for something. Let's say stock in a new Italian microprocessing company. The day comes when you have all the money for some shares. You excange your U$ money in the bank for the Italian Lyra. All done via electronic exchange. Just so many bits byts and pixels. You've never actually _seen_ any of that money. You buy your shares of stock. Again, all through computer transaction. You've never seen an actual bank note or paper. The company turns out to be a fake. Or maybe even real but not doing as well as you were led to believe. You lose your investment. Well, by golly.. no one was hurt. It was really just virtual money anyway. Right? No biggie. Just go make some more money..lesson learned. Forgive me for sounding like Runesacpe is really real. However, in the virtual game world, how is real people, using real time to make RS gold really all that different than the same thing dealing with real foreign exchanges by computer? Ah.. other than the obvious. In RL, people are breaking all kinds of laws and are subject to real life jail time. Whilst in the virtual world of Runescape, people are only breaking a little rule and probably nothing will happen. Side note... did you know that if you do sell virtual items from games like Runescape or World of Warcraft for real money, {rule breaking aside} it is considered income and taxable by the IRS? And you thought it was 'just a game" :shock: Kudos! It's very furstating to work hard and spend my "real" time making money to have it be taken from me. I am very careful when trading and never take anything valuable into the wild. I hate that we have to fear parts of a game we all so love to play.
