"Really? Then who is buying all this virtual gold?"

13 year olds with their mothers credit card.

"Clearly plenty of people *don't hate them* enough to keep the gold farming companies in business."

these are the same people that bitch about blizzard when their accounts get hacked by the same people they bought their harmless gold from. Clearly they are morons.


"Like it or not, it's a service that a lot of people want."

no one said the world isn't full of lazy mf'ers.

"And honestly, China is just shooting themselves in the foot over this. Why outlaw when you can heavily tax?"

oh i don't know. because it's a black market industry that is nearly impossible to tax.