Parallelnormal is yours to take (with attribution, please), under a … ’cause the taxman is after your Warcraft gold.
If they had pockets, the government would pick them. Photo: CC/Oracio Alvarado
“I think it’s an extraordinarily dangerous development,” said Prof Castronova.
“It’s as if every time I played soccer in my backyard and scored a goal, I would have to pay the government three euros,” he said. “It takes away the game’s contribution to human happiness.”
Richard Bartle, a multi-player game pioneer and researcher at the University of Essex, says in-game taxes would spoil the fun.
“If you were taxed every time you bought a property in Monopoly, you’d be annoyed. The same goes for people in World of Warcraft.”
via The Taxman Invading Virtual Transactions | Ten Ton Hammer
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I’ll be happy to pay their virtual taxes in virtual money. The Government can have a 7% of my characters’ gold pieces and in a wartime situation I might even share some of my epic armor with them.
Of course, our “real” money is pretty much virtual anyway. At least in Azeroth, people are smart enough to hold onto their gold.