Comment Re:Hundred Millions or Hundred Thousands? (Score 1) 293
$200 million - $1 billion worldwide.
80% of gold farmers (the guys that actually work in the game to make currency) are in china.
80% of the workforce does not mean 80% of the revenue. The guys in China typically don't make much (probably more than they would make in a factory, with slightly better working conditions). It is the guys that run the business that make the cash, and those guys are probably not in china.
This will accomplish some combination of the following:
1) China will lose tax revenue, as workers will continue to work, being paid under the table.
2) The tops of the management chain will find a new source of cheep labor.
In the end, gold farming will continue.
If China wants to stop gold farming, they should figure out how to get better working conditions and higher wages in the jobs they actually want people doing. Trying to solve a social problem with rules is just silly.
80% of gold farmers (the guys that actually work in the game to make currency) are in china.
80% of the workforce does not mean 80% of the revenue. The guys in China typically don't make much (probably more than they would make in a factory, with slightly better working conditions). It is the guys that run the business that make the cash, and those guys are probably not in china.
This will accomplish some combination of the following:
1) China will lose tax revenue, as workers will continue to work, being paid under the table.
2) The tops of the management chain will find a new source of cheep labor.
In the end, gold farming will continue.
If China wants to stop gold farming, they should figure out how to get better working conditions and higher wages in the jobs they actually want people doing. Trying to solve a social problem with rules is just silly.
