South Korea bans sale of Virtual items

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

Sweet xD
The penalties might be a bit harsh, but this would stop all the RMAH and item shop shenanigans, do want in other countries too.

 

http://z0r.de/4220

 

Millions of fan deaths averted?

 

Somewhere in a corner Kotick is raging hard.

 

Does this mean Diablo III will be illegal in South Korea

 

Good. Virtual items are huge fucking scam and their sale should be banned everywhere, not just to protect idiots but also because these asshats don't deserve to make money.

 

Cool.

But does it actually apply to cash shops? Because it doesn't looks like it.

 

Incline of South Korea, good for them.

 

Much unexpected this year.

 

South Korea is now officially Best Korea

 

Guys, if i understand this right, cash shops remain untouched, they are just attempting to give monopoly on sales to the publishers.

 

Seeing as they denied Blizzard classification around allegations of Online Gambling and they had to remove the Auction House in South Korea before they could release the game I would doubt that:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/01/13/d...outh-korea-to-secure-official-classification/

 

That's entirely different from a cash shop though, there are actual players involved.

 

Sending people to jail for 5 years for botting in an online game is fucking stupid.

 

To encourage students not to waste time?

South Korean students are among the most competitive in the world, spend 18 hours a day studying nonstop in extreme cases, and they are not entitled to use what little leisure time they have as they wish?

 

It is already. Or rather it's under criminal investigation - but for error 37 stuff mostly.

 

Dude you are an idiot. South Korean students who are exceptional are like that. Most of them, abroad.

 

Idiots don't deserve to be 'protected'. If anything, crap systems like virtual items serve to more clearly differentiate the people with no common sense from the normal people.

 

F2P experiment.

 

fuck yeah

edith, as expected not as good as it sounded

someone tag the koreafags or get us clearer news pls pls xd

 

cool story bro here: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2094427,00.html

who will save Japan now?

 

Somewhere, a starving child in Africa is smiling upon hearing this news on the Internet.

 

While I don't like the RMAH, cash shops, and the selling of virtual game items this is an unnecessary restriction on individual liberties. Trying to make things you don't like illegal is a deadly dangerous path to go down. There should be a very good reason for outlawing or otherwise regulating something. The reasons given in this article are nowhere near good enough to restrict individual liberties in this way.