however the big time RMT’ers will be thinking twice on making this a career.

positive point for me.

even if its instigated by gm or admin, rmt is rmt. and i dont think the BIR would even think twice on having a piece of that pie. they just ask NBI to check the logs and audit.

We won’t ban you, we’ll report you to BIR and they’ll come to your door next morning for tax evasion. You’re making money, hell, we’ll make money out of you too. (Just a scenario LOL).

They’ll make rules about MMOs in the future, sue GM’s for illegal spawning of stuffs LOL.

Maybe, game publishers would require players to include their TIN when they register for a game(much more like of KSSN) in the future.

Im not scared of getting my account banned, but I’m going to be afraid if BIR is on my door coming for me for tax evasion

BIR > Banned account

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho5Yxe6UVv4

kids will not study and hope to be doctors and lawyers, heck not even caregivers or call center agents, a lot will opt to be “professional gamers” hoping their “break” will come … the next epic sword drop. a scary and pathetic scenario, i hope people give the virtual goods model a serious second thought. there are good possibilities out of it , and many ways to earn money off it (i.e. user created content).but many people might see it the wrong way out, to compensate real life– because anybody can be the next millionare, if the rare item drops on the next kill.

the thing that bothers me, is that i’m paying taxes for a bunch of 0′s and 1′s? in retrospect, that means i can be a farmer nerd and earn millions of virtual money to pay for my RL taxes (if it’s not happening already). not a very positive society, if ever it becomes a popular job.

another interesting fact is that game admins can directly affect the virtual economy. indirectly they could affect and control the RMT just by changing, say an item’s stats or droprate. how do you prevent that? monitoring a game server’s settings? imagine GM’s cannot just spawn mobs in town anymore, laws on server settings like spawn rate and drop rate, … paying a high tax because you just picked up a legendary item, getting an affidavit of loss from a lawyer because your shield got lost from a PK kill. otherwise GMs can just spawn stuff, and if xZeny= yPhp, GM’s are goldmines. the gov’t would control the games of course.

absurd and hazy IMO ATM. i’m very open to new stuff but paying money for virtual items still feel odd to me.

As to RMT, yes, it IS hard to monitor. Trust me… I know it for a fact since most transactions happen outside of the game…

skip the taxes, do the time…