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Game companies should not even think about

Text / intern Fan Chinese Commercial News reporter Jin Lin Yi-Qing

June 4, 2009, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Commerce jointly promulgated the "online game on strengthening the management of virtual currency notice" with one stone after the waves stirred up Melaleuca. Shanghai Bar Association Legal Research Information Network Committee to build more just excited that significant new regulation will go a long way to change the status of network industries.

Refund of deposit guarantee

As a network of professional lawyers, lawyers to build just the sudden closure of the network enterprise, the player to recover to no avail, despite its sympathy fresh picture.

The release of "notice" provisions are an important, online game operators who wish to terminate the services must be redeemed user virtual currency. This will involve the issue of a bond.

In order to ensure the implementation of this provision, the government departments will be asked to pay a business not a small amount of the deposit for the payment of corporate bankruptcy, in order to avoid a large number of enterprises in the distribution of virtual currency and a sudden inability to deliver the adverse social impact. In this way, enterprises will be faced with the problem of shrinking liquidity, and liquidity may be a direct result of the reduction in the reduction of corporate profits.

Submit a quarterly basis to step up supervision

Secondly, the "Notice" provisions of online game operators to issue the total amount of virtual currency such as the situation where the enterprise is located shall be submitted quarterly provincial cultural administrative departments.

To build just a lawyer, told Shanghai Commercial News, which means that network operators will be in the company's operating strictly under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture, to reduce the many degrees of freedom. For enterprises, a number of acts or edge ball yellow, bloody images would be bound.

In addition, to build just a lawyer also believes that the enterprise network is likely to incur additional taxes for this purpose. Because in the "Notice" issued before the Web company paid the tax each year is linked to their turnover, and now virtual money can be linked to the issue. In fact, almost all of the turnover of the company's network will not be with the virtual currency in circulation equate directly. At present, there are many online companies to adopt free virtual currency sales and marketing strategy to attract players, the New Deal after the introduction of such practices will certainly be significantly reduced.

Free virtual currency was suspended

Chun-Quan Liu, according to lawyers, "notice" after the implementation of the right to network the company has never given a virtual currency, virtual currency because only through the purchase of way. If the strict enforcement of this article, the operation of existing enterprises a great impact. This means that the company is now the most frequently used network through a virtual currency giving way to obtain greater benefits after the marketing model does not apply, and then the network companies must develop new strategies to deal with this situation. And which network the company to be the first to find new ways to attract users and trend-following competitors, the market will be able to seize the opportunity to gain more market share. From this point of view, the domestic online games market will be very likely in the implementation of the new rules were re-divided.

Recalling the introduction of new regulations the Nasdaq stock market after the relevant online games has always been a weakness in stocks. This is also reflected from one aspect of the management of virtual currency impact.