Steinhauer's Opinion: Gold Farming, Part 1

Jonathan Steinhauer's back with his Monday column, this week he looks at the controversy that is gold farming in the first part of a multi-part series. Gold farming is a practice where companies send employees into a game to literally farm gold. They then sell that gold to players online. Steinhauer wants to know what to do about the issue.

The purpose of this article is neither to discuss the moralities of gold farming, nor to debate whether RMT is, in fact, beneficial to ingame economies. Concerning the latter, I'm not an economist and am hardly qualified to render an informed opinion. As to the former, there is no issue. Gold Farming and RMT are in violation of the End User Legal Agreements (EULA) of just about every MMO in existence and, therefore, are illegal. Enough said.

So lets move on to a topic that is debatable: what to do about it.

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