Is game promotion illegal?

Legal analysis: The following acts of promoting regular games and platforms are not illegal and belong to pyramid schemes: (1) Organizers or operators seek illegal benefits by asking the developed personnel to join other personnel through the development of personnel, and calculating and paying remuneration (including material rewards and other economic benefits, the same below) to the developed personnel based on the number of personnel directly or indirectly developed; Wait a minute.

Legal basis: Article 224th of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

In the name of selling commodities, providing services and other business activities, participants are required to obtain the qualification to join by paying fees or purchasing commodities and services, and a hierarchy is formed in a certain order, and the number of developers is directly or indirectly used as the basis for remuneration or rebate, which induces or coerces participants to continue to develop pyramid schemes in which others participate, defrauds property and disrupts economic and social order, and is also fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and fined.