Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20190204232949/@comment-28169398-20190208050256

RandyMc wrote: Amrosa wrote: RandyMc wrote: I see it a bit differently I guess.

If you're in a bakery or retail store, they have to pay for their inventory. Digital currency is made once by developers, and sold with no further investment. FM can't possibly have enough employees to have one iota of affect on their income. The employees should get it for free. They don't.

Though if you think about it, if you gave them the entire game fully upgraded, at the current IAP price of gold, that would amount to about a $20,000-$25,000 bonus per employee. No it wouldn't. FM's own terms and conditions state their (in game) currency has no real value. That is so that you cannot turn around and sue them if you are sitting with an enormous gold balance and they decide to stop supporting the game.

But from an employee compensation perspective, the accounting and tax implications would likely be different.