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Well, they were under 14 years old - I'm not sure they'd be making more than sweat-shop wages anywhere in Korea, and they didn't seem to have a choice in whether or not they did it, which is why it seemed like a sweat-shop kind of deal to me. They claimed that they worked for someone else who was much older, so I can only assume that person made more money than they did and underpaid them.
In the end it, it's all speculation, but with an interesting point - online farming is slowly making a noticeable world-wide market, and the lack of clarity in (specifically) U.S. laws now is not likely to continue... especially once Americans figure out a way to create a successful business model out of farming(something that's probably been elusive up until now, because of the value of the dollar in other world countries). However, I do believe it is coming. |
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Nobody knows what will happen if a pay-for-assets company shuts down a game. Nobody knows what a court would decide if challenged by a user. I know that both Dan and I agree that what we'd do if it came down to it would be to just open source the software and database (stripped of personal registration info of course) to keep the game alive. Everybody is pretty sure there's no way a publisher would be legally obligated to keep paying the server/bandwidth bills, so open-sourcing it would likely be enough. In that case, we are, in a very real way, giving them (the users) everything they bought in any sense of the word. Perhaps we could also just print out the database entries for the items that player owned and mail them to the player. ![]() --mat |
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Care to qoute some sources, in Korean or English, that claims there are sweat shops here, of any kind?
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I'd find it hard to believe there are any "companies" out there using Korean children to farm items in any MMPROG. It's not worth it money wise, legally, not to mention kids here tend to go to schools(public and private) from 7am to about 10-11pm 6 days a week. |
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They're just work camps, you get paid a small amount of money to harvest crops, but you also get free living space. I used to work at one, it was sort of like being a slave, but I'm a black man who didn't go to college, I didn't have much of a choice. I don't know all that much about Korea, are there places like that there? |
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In some of the more rural area's, you could find something similar to that. Long farming style hours, free room and board, small paycheck. But if you put a monitary value on the room and board, it still(should) hit the minimum wage limit. But child sweat-shops... no, I've never heard of anything even remotely close to that. 한국말 할수있으면 해야조 Since it doesn't seem to like using real letters: Hangukmal halsu issuemyeon haeyajo |
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Now you can say, Korea is smaller than the states, which is true but if you look at % of unemployment I'm sure there's a big difference... I'll try to find the exact numbers later. Homeless is the same way, the % of homeless here is probably far lower. I don't know exact numbers, but I know how often I saw someone that was homeless in NYC compared to how many I see in Seoul now, and it's a big difference. |
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