Market Value Appraisal of Virtual Property From A Chinese Legal Perspective

With the rapid development and popularisation of the Internet, online games have become more than just a tool for entertainment.People can build social relationships through online games, trade through virtual property in online games, for example, in the game named Counter Strike, the players have the ability to trade the weapons' skins they've obtained by playing the game on the game's official marketplace using the real currency.At the same time, crimes against virtual property in online games have also become more and more rampant.China faces the difficulty of not being able to appraise the value of virtual property when combating crimes violating virtual property in online games, this leads to difficulties in identifying the amount of crime.This article adopts a qualitative approach, which is mainly theoretical research.This article explores the sources of value of different kinds of online game virtual property, and identifies the difficulties faced in appraisal of the value of virtual property in online games.It proposes to construct diversified ways of appraising the value of virtual property in online games, and to use electronic forensic examination technology to link virtual property in online games with the relevant behaviours of network users in reality, which can help to reasonably appraise the value of online game virtual property.