[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by Vexenu [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

1) It eliminates the importance of reputation, since a banned player can simply buy a new account

Reduces, does not eliminate (by a long shot).

Why are you equating reputation and bans anyways? Players can have bad reps without getting banned and vice versa.

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2) Encourages cheating, for the same reason

Cheaters gonna cheat, regardless.

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3) Turns the raid scene into a farce that is largely based on accumulating accounts and camping them out at raid targets

Raid scene is a mess, but ending account sales now won't fix it cause there are already a million accounts ready to raid spread amongst the raiding players. Plus the people who are hardcore enough to farm the pp to buy and gear multiple raid accounts are just going to level/PL them once account sales are banned anyway.

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4) Artificially de-populates the lower levels of the game since fewer people level alts, which hurts new players

Right. Cause ANY of the people who had the plat to buy accounts and lacked the motivation to level a character themselves are suddenly going to do 1-60 in full groups in oasis with a bunch of untwinked newbies instead of leveling solo+twinked and/or getting PLed.

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5) Contributes to the top-heavy nature of the server since accounts don't necessarily leave when players do

Not sure that this is exactly a problem, per se, especially not one that deserves staff intervention.

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6) Is a major conduit for RMT, and is much more difficult to detect since suspicious in-game transfers don't need to take place

Maybe. I doubt you would know this. I suspect you're just speculating for the sake of another # on your list.

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7) Artificially increases the demand and market price of mid to high-end gear, since it is being constantly bought and sold to outfit stripped chars people purchased

Those stripped characters probably didn't level to 50+ naked. So account sales simultaneously increase supply and demand for gear. You even say yourself that the gear is constantly being "bought and sold," yet try to argue that this is spiking demand. Also, again, this doesn't really sound like a problem, especially one the staff should get involved in dealing with.

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8) Eliminates feelings of community since character/player identities are so transient and ultimately meaningless

Community is what you make of it. If a person/group/guild is concerned that any random character they see is just an asshole player hiding behind newly-acquired pixels, then tighten up recruitment or something. And character/player identifies are only meaningless for the people who constantly flop into new characters (which they could do anyway, albeit by taking some time to level/pl instead of just hopping right into a new 50+ character... though seriously it takes like 1 day /played to hit 50 if you are serious about buying PL); those of us who play the same characters don't have transient/meaningless identities.




And yet again. I don't give a shit which way this goes, because I'll never buy or sell another account again. I just like to troll/argue/inspire people to find the truth by way of calling things into question.