在近来一段时间打金、代练、RMT等词语已经成为MMORPG玩家的热门话题。
这些东西几乎深入到了每个游戏。
       上周美国联邦地方法院制定了一个很重要的规则将会影响数百万的网络游戏玩家。我们每周都在讨论这对科南的玩家的意义以及其他一些未决定事情。
上周美国亚利桑那州联邦法院的一个法官对暴雪娱乐事件进行了判决。
暴雪取得了一个巨大的胜利。 27页的判决，涉及很多复杂的法律问题，但幸运的，我们给玩家和整个行业做了一个总结 。

 

       这对科南的玩家意味什么？以下为翻译大意：作为一个科南玩家，你只有使用帐号的权利并非是帐号的所有人。如果违反游戏规定将被处理。如果给角色起个很不相称的名字也是不允许的。暴雪的胜利意味着运营商可以更开放的处理金农和代练的行为。控制金币买卖行为将给玩家带来更多的游戏体验。
这可能意味着以后在所有的mmorpgs中职业打金的玩家将大批量消失。

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Now to the meat and potatoes. What does this mean for Age of Conan players? Well, for starters, it doesn't mean anything yet until this case is inevitably appealed to the Ninth Circuit. However, it bodes well for Funcom, and ill for hackers, gold farmers, and bot players. For one thing, it means you do not actually own your copy of Age of Conan. That's right, you too are a licensee for the same reasons that MDY was a licensee to Blizzard. And if you play the game in a way not in accordance with Funcom's rules, you will be a copyright infringer. That does not make sense on some level, in that if you play a character with an inappropriate name, you could be infringing copyright. But that's the way the law works in this case.

Second, it means there is active precedent and trend ruling against gold farmers and power levelers. It is much more likely that we will see more lawsuits from companies like Funcom or Blizzard against bot writers, gold farmers, and power levelers. This is especially well timed, because there is a case currently before the courts called Hernandez v. IGE, which is a lawsuit on behalf of all WoW players against the gold seller IGE for "diminishing their game experience". While the case is very legally interesting, it just got a huge boost in survivability (i.e., not so likely to be dismissed) due to the Blizzard/MDY ruling. This could mean a serious dropoff in gold farming in ALL MMORPGs. This all happens as WoW is reporting a huge drop in the amount of gold farming and a significant boost in the value of the gold, as well as some of the most expensive money sinks ever; while AOC is slashing prices on some of its basic mounts by over 50%. Interestingly enough, court documents in that case show companies like major investment bankers Goldman Sachs are investing and even buying out profitable gold farmers like IGE.

Hopefully the end result of this case will be an Age of Conan that is largely free from issues with gold farmers, power levelers, and spammers. We'll of course keep you updated as news on these cases comes out. So thanks for suffering your way through that long explanation above, and we hope you're now a little more aware about the legal issues surrounding this and other MMORPGs. What did you think?