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Originally Posted by Uggme
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What's the difference? The difference is still time. It takes time to power-level a character to 40. The person on the recieving end must be present and active, and the person providing the service must act as well. Additionally, power-leveledd person at 40 still has the hardest and longest part of the game to level and complete - 40 to 60. This means his or her reputation and things they do from that point forward are still of substancial value. This holds true even if someone is Powerleveled from 1 to 60. It would still take a lot of time to get there - you'd go to dungeons, interact with groups, other people, and camp named mobs for possible loot. Thus, the powerleveled individual is still earning a reputation, either good or bad.
The issue here isn't "distribution of wealth" at all. We already know that anyone with the proper time (interesting how there's a corrolation between time and growth in eq, eh?) and knowledge can make mountains of plat in EC tunnel in a relatively short amount of time, or by camping the proper mob drops for sale, or by getting in good with a guild and selling stuff that gets replaced. To bring in account sales as a means of making the plat available to anyone is a justification only, not a legitimate reason to keep it around.
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Is your entire case against selling accounts based on having people who appear at level 60 without any social network or reputation?
I find it hard to believe that anyone is going to walk into the server and buy a level 60 account unless they RMT, which in that case RMT is the issue not buying accounts with plat.
Now if you think someone is going to log into the server and have their friend hand them a lvl 60 account, well that is never going to get caught unless we only allow 1 ip per account which would 1) be unmanageable 2) make people who play from home & work unable to do so.
If you think it is about time, there are multiple PL services who can get you to lvl 50 in a few days if you have the money. Spending the 'time' to sit in get pl is probably easier than spending the 'time' farming the 50-60k it would cost to buy a lvl 50 account.
When I was leveling up I kept asking all the 'rich' people how they made money, 9/10 times it was someone who had leveled to mid 50s, sold their account and re-rolled a twink or someone who had a 60 main and leveled up alts to sell. If this is taken out of the game now then all the new players are essentially short changed a way a large amount of others have used to make money.
I just feel like this goes into the long list of things that people have been abusing since the server was created, yeah it should have never existed in the first place but removing it now only hurts new players as others have made millions abusing it already. If that is what everyone wants, awesome. I just feel like everyone is doing what the masses typically do and jump to some illogical conclusion because on the surface it makes sense.