Warcraft gold could be subject to government regulation in Russia

Gold, space credits, teeth – these are all currencies that can be obtained in different games.For example, "Izvestia"

with reference to Deputy Head of the Ministry of Finance Alexey Moiseevreport that the department and Rosfinmonitoring supported the idea of ​​regulating game currencies in order to prevent their use as a means of payment outside of video games and beyond. Discuss

Also, the goal for regulation was the fight against money laundering and the sponsoring of terrorism.

The press service of Rosfinmonitoring explains thatgame currencies are used only to purchase services and items within the same game. But not everything is so simple, because there are separate services that offer their customers to convert these game funds into fiat money or sell in-game items for real currencies.

Because of this, the agency explains, approaches to regulating the turnover of convertible game currencies and virtual assets should be identical.

In addition, the Central Bank of Russia sees in gamingcurrencies a serious risk to the country's financial system. The fact is that the possible use of monetary surrogates as a means of payment for goods and services creates a risk of undermining money circulation and losing the sovereignty of the national currency, since according to the law, the official monetary unit of the Russian Federation is the ruble (the introduction of other monetary units or the issuance of monetary surrogates is prohibited).