Korea bans virtual item trading

[charlesr]

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2012/06/129_112964.html

The ministry calculates that over 60 percent of items exchanged on the market were obtained by the use of automatic programs . "Such programs and other method are impinging in the way of on-line games' negative reputation" the government agency said.

Bordersdown is way ahead of Korea, having banned virtual item trading years ago!

[Kaido]

Wowzers... although South Korea already let Diablo 3 auction house in? Looks like more of a legal stance against running bots within RPGs - something which will have to happen at some point when the line between real and virtual currency blurs

[Blaiz0r]

South Korea bans trade of virtual items, and bots

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-06-15-south-korea-bans-trade-of-virtual-items-gold-farm-bots

I really like this, and would love to see if implemented in the Europe too.

The last 5 years gaming has really changed from being entertainment and experience driven to nothing more than hoarding, collecting, looting and trading.

[dataDave]

Too bad that this probably won't extend to DLC.