Working with online game operator Gamebar, the insurance company is issuing virtual property insurance to protect players from theft or loss of “virtual property” such as “land” or “currency”, reported China Daily.
According to Sunshine, the insurance will also protect game operators, who purchase the insurance to compensate customers from damages. This is apparently the first virtual property insurance in China – if not the world.
China’s first ‘virtual property’ insurance launched [China Daily]
Top photo: Guang Niu/Getty
DNR
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 9:11 AMSounds to me like a ‘protection racket’, you pay a Chinese company for insurance.
Chinese gold farmers invade your game, hack your account sell all your virtual gear… they make twice the profit.
Picky
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 9:13 PMPaying real money for unreal things