SAN FRANCISCO — A decade ago, a developer from the South Korean game maker Nexon threw a few lines of code together to create an image of a flower to present to his girlfriend, buying himself more video game time as she sat impatiently by his side at an Internet cafe. And, so the industry legend goes, the “virtual good” was born. In the years since, digitally created items for games and social med
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