China Bans Gold Farming?

[Kevin]

Unless they fully enforce it (and no nation has the resources to do so) this is a meaningless gesture. Legit players will still play legit, and cheaters will still cheat.

China is a slightly different beast. Their hardware infrastructure is built to make it much much much easier to filter/block/track than other countries. They paid Cisco a lot of money to set things up so they could control things and while I know they can't control everything they try to, they can be more effective than many other organizations attempting to do so, especially in the short term. The short term could get a lot of the gold farming "factories" closed for months while they try to figure out ways around the controls. Demand for that type of service is still high and with supply cut sharply in the short term, this could have a real affect.