Goldfarming Banned in China

[Mio]

Drug dealing is illeagle but still, People do it... The Law on it will stop many companies but alot will carry on.

 

Other Countries do it aswell, So its not only China.

 

This wont effect much, 100% sure Jagex will still keep up the Trade Limit aswell...

[demby123]

Drug dealing is illeagle but still, People do it... The Law on it will stop many companies but alot will carry on.

 

Other Countries do it aswell, So its not only China.

 

This wont effect much, 100% sure Jagex will still keep up the Trade Limit aswell...

 

 

 

But I don't believe "drug dealing" can occur in china when every sack is monitored.;)

 

I thought most,if not all, gold farmers operate over the internet,which is monitored by the people's republic.

 

:?:

[Wachtwoord]

Chinese people had the best work in the world... Getting paid for playing vidjeo gamez. Now all gone, all gone.. :cry:

 

Doing the same thing for hours and hours in a game you don't care about, which will achieve nothing, etc. It's not a fun job.

[01sirt]

This is great for RuneScape!!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: And for all you who are "awwwww poor goldfarmers!" Cry me river :boohoo: Most of them will just keep doing it anyways. :wall:

[hellbellz]

Chinese people had the best work in the world... Getting paid for playing vidjeo gamez. Now all gone, all gone.. :cry:

 

Don't forget the poor conditions these people work(ed) in, along with the minimalistic wage these people are offered.

[salim123]

To tell you the truth, althought child labour goes on in china, it is good for some of the families (although treatment is bad)

 

 

 

It gets them some money to survive, this update may force many of the chinese to find other ways to make money, some may even be worse.

 

 

 

+there goes a bunch of subscribers

[Tim]

Doesn't the Chinese government highly regulate what people there can access on the internet? So now won't they just block these online games people are gold farming in? It's 1:30 AM for me so bare with me on my thinking...

 

 

 

Oh yeah isn't Newgrounds blocked in China for some reason? If the Chinese government can easily block sites like that then I guess it would work. But then how would they block games like WOW which are downloaded and played on the computer rather than online like Runescape?

 

Ban the importing of WoW Disks and/or WoW torrent sites? :|

[Zaaps1]

Doesn't the Chinese government highly regulate what people there can access on the internet? So now won't they just block these online games people are gold farming in? It's 1:30 AM for me so bare with me on my thinking...

 

 

 

Actually, there is a lot of censorship in China. My parents told me when they were little they couldn't read the book Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I'm also aware that Brokeback Mountain is banned. I wouldn't be too surprised if gold-buying/selling websites were legitimate.

 

 

 

My cousins tell me the same thing, actually. Censorship has gotten far less strict since then, though. Examples of when I went to China: 1) Romance of the Three Kingdoms was buyable on DVD disks from the TV series and 2) Brokeback Mountain is probably among the thousands of pirated DVDs they sell there.

 

 

 

My aunt is flying in from Shanghai today as a matter of fact, so it's funny this topic comes up. It's amazing what she says was banned/censored.

[mikeg0477]

Think of the children!!

 

 

 

The children who won't be buying gold anymore, or the children who won't be eating because income went poot?

 

 

 

Both... both!!

 

Thanks, I've haven't actually laughed at a post in a while.

 

 

 

Both... both!!

 

That's good stuff.

 

 

 

OT: I think this is a good thing.

[Smackapotato]

Until the effects of this start coming into play(if any even do come into effect) then we won't really know what this law has done. Until then it's kind of pointless to think that it's made a change for the better.

[brainymidget]

Goldfarmers had already greatly increased in Runescape anyways due to all of the restrictions. There are currently no publicly known ways of transferring gold efficiently. Jagex won't change anything for this because quite honestly, it's not only Chinese gold farmers who are real world trading and many of them will continue gold farming anyways. I do however think that people who play WoW will see a change as there were many many gold farmers in WoW and while this might not eliminate all of them, it should eliminate some.

[spooferfish]

Chinese people had the best work in the world... Getting paid for playing vidjeo gamez. Now all gone, all gone.. :cry:

 

Most of them probably didn't like it...

 

 

 

Good move IMO.

[brainymidget]

Chinese people had the best work in the world... Getting paid for playing vidjeo gamez. Now all gone, all gone.. :cry:

 

Most of them probably didn't like it...

 

 

 

Good move IMO.

 

 

 

It wasn't exactly playing video games. It was sitting there clicking to cut a tree for hours straight, and they probably got paid around 25 cents on the hour, or whatever that converts into.

 

And anyways, there is a job where you get paid to play video games, it's called a video game tester, and it actually has semi-decent pay :P

[Ravenkana]

Chinese people had the best work in the world... Getting paid for playing vidjeo gamez. Now all gone, all gone.. :cry:

 

Most of them probably didn't like it...

 

 

 

Good move IMO.

 

 

 

It wasn't exactly playing video games. It was sitting there clicking to cut a tree for hours straight, and they probably got paid around 25 cents on the hour, or whatever that converts into.

 

And anyways, there is a job where you get paid to play video games, it's called a video game tester, and it actually has semi-decent pay :P

But it sucks like a vampire in a blood bank.

[Lets_3ekout]

Wait, so what's actually being DONE about RWT'ers? The government in China is just saying "don't do it pretty please?"?

 

 

 

Unless some HUGE financial/physical action against RWT'ers takes place, they aren't going anywhere. Even then, they're still going to be there, just in a lower % from China.

[Range_This11]

Imagine all those poor Chinese familes going hungry because of this. It's like there was a certain mass job loss in America recently and everyone just kind of forgot about it...hmm.

[swordwarior]

Imagine all those poor Chinese familes going hungry because of this. It's like there was a certain mass job loss in America recently and everyone just kind of forgot about it...hmm.

 

 

 

Imagine all the poor starving familys regardless of this. To the people saying that the job they did was terrible, yes to our standards it is. When you look at the other things that are done in China for money, it was a good job.

 

To the comment about chinese children being killed.....sadly its mainly girls that are killed, left for dead, or put up for adoption as they have very little use in their society.

 

 

 

It seems kind of bad to say, but its a good thing for the video game world, just maybe not the best thing for those who did this as a form of income. :|

[Kilo]

This will put millions of families out of jobs!

 

 

 

As would banning prostitution, yet people seem to be all for banning that. Keep in mind that in either case nothing would really change. The people in charge of these gold farming operations were never very fine and upstanding businessmen to begin with. The only difference is that now the occasionally person will get caught, however this law is not going to accomplish much.

 

 

 

Prostitution is already illegal. Or is that a State law? Well it's illegal in my state.

 

 

 

This new law in China won't really change anything because the people who enforce the laws are corrupt beyond all comprehension.

 

 

 

Now your assuming things, bad bad bad. The reason this won't affect anything is because the chinese probably won't spend tons of resources trying to find these people. I could care less, I don't play WoW.

 

 

 

Oh, I don't care if people lose their jobs btw. I really don't.

[Kasper_Hvid]

Imagine all those poor Chinese familes going hungry because of this. It's like there was a certain mass job loss in America recently and everyone just kind of forgot about it...hmm.

 

Go hungry? Have you been to China before? Do you know who is doing Goldfarmer thing? A lot of Chinese are much richer than you. Do not talk something you do not know at all!

[Wongtong]

Oh, I don't care if people lose their jobs btw. I really don't.

 

Is that sarcasm? I hope it is. Because if it wasn't, that's pretty heartless.

[Kasper_Hvid]

2/3 of the sales income of my friend's company are from China last year and 1/3 from the rest of the world. Atually, if they have probelm this year, my friend's compnay has to shut down. Do not fool yourselves if you do not know China recently.

[Will H]

Wait, so what's actually being DONE about RWT'ers? The government in China is just saying "don't do it pretty please?"?

 

 

 

Unless some HUGE financial/physical action against RWT'ers takes place, they aren't going anywhere. Even then, they're still going to be there, just in a lower % from China.

 

But this is a massive step against global RWTing. The important thing here is that the government of a country who hosts a vast proportion of RWTing businesses has stated that it's wrong. They can't do anything until this happens, so now it's possible to make serious moves against the trade that weren't possible before.

 

 

 

I don't care if these people lose their jobs either. It's like a drug dealer complaining that he will lose money because the government raided a marijuana farm.

[Lets_3ekout]

I don't see how people can keep on saying that they don't care about the job-loss and suffering of these people. People get upset over this video game at RWT'ers, sure it's legitimate gripe, but that doesn't mean we go hopeing that they go starve to death along with their families. Imagine if you pissed off someone over a game and they laughed at you while you lost all your income and suffered.

 

 

 

This is very much so a moral issue, would you consider it right for a man to steal a loaf of bread to keep his children alive? I believe so, as long as his theft does not give himself unneeded luxuries (Stealing large amounts of food). What is happening here is just a variation of the same tale.

 

 

 

I hate to say it, and don't let it get to anyone personally, but claiming that these people deserve to rot and die is just scum-like.

[Silver_Corner]

This is very much so a moral issue, would you consider it right for a man to steal a loaf of bread to keep his children alive? I believe so, as long as his theft does not give himself unneeded luxuries (Stealing large amounts of food). What is happening here is just a variation of the same tale.

 

 

 

While the workers of these sweatshops were getting barley enough money to put bread on their plates for hours of hard labor, I would be willing to bet the leaders of these sweatshops were making very large incomes while the workers get screwed over.

 

 

 

Wouldn't you then say the company is not morally right, since one person is making thousands, while the rest make pennies?

 

 

 

I do agree the loss of jobs is unfortunate, but that's not enough to say the companies were morally right in the first place. With any hope, this law will at least be the first of many for people to stop making these type of jobs in the first place, and focus their time on making real legitimate jobs that are not stung upon morally grey areas.

[Great_one]

Oh, I don't care if people lose their jobs btw. I really don't.

 

Is that sarcasm? I hope it is. Because if it wasn't, that's pretty heartless.

 

there is really no reason to be worried about the Chinese peoples' jobs. unlike in the united states or the uk the Chinese government chooses not to use new innovations in technology. That is what is causing the job loss in america(and foreign cheap labor and taxes and osha etc etc). when a machine bought and maintained for the salary of 1 worker can do the job of 10, people are going to be out of work. in China they just take all of their unemployed and use them in giant state protects as manual labor.