There are a litany of black markets out there; Drugs, weapons, sex, death, body parts — basically anything you’d find gratuitously splashed through a George Romero film or in the sketch book of that class crazy who makes instructional videos on how to properly service a katana blade. The newest addition to that pack is selling virtual gold from video games for real currency. Impatient gamers who can’t be bothered to spend hours legitimately earning the gold needed to buy level-ups, armoured battle cloaks and pixellated crossbows are now just purchasing that gold from other people who have worked for it. Because combining laziness and money is far more convenient than spending all day in a darkened room and relentlessly clicking on stuff while your skin turns pallid and you forget what it’s like to interact with real human beings. While all of that probably isn’t what game developers were hoping for, it’s pretty innocuous and doesn’t disrupt gameplay t...