Account Trading

[pharmakos]

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

No offense Ephi, but this isn't really clear. To me this sounds like "don't buy and sell accounts or you will be banned if the account was connected to MQ or RMT."

Please clarify, is account buying/selling a bannable offense now? What are the repercussions of doing participating in this?

^^^

will just the traded account get banned? will all accounts owned by both the buyer and the seller get banned? permabans all around, or just permaban the traded account and temp bans for the other accounts? etc etc

[JackFlash]

A++.

Epic MQ was in classic......selling accounts isn't.

[Ele]

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

No offense Ephi, but this isn't really clear. To me this sounds like "don't buy and sell accounts or you will be banned if the account was connected to MQ or RMT."

Please clarify, is account buying/selling a bannable offense now? What are the repercussions of doing participating in this?

It means that bona fide traders/purchasers of accounts that were not currently banned, but simply flagged for MQ/RMT and subsequently banned, got screwed. While the sellers made off like bandits.

[diplo]

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

Similarly how it used to be treated by Sony, account trading/selling for virtual currency/items is no longer allowed. While we cannot stop the regular account sharing between family and friends, the original owner of an account will always be considered the owner of the account. Even though we have stated our refusal to support it, we can no longer allow players to be conned into accounts, either to be scammed by account recovery, or by accounts receiving disciplinary action for past actions.

I'd also like to reiterate our stance on account violations. If you share your account information, you inherit responsibility for their actions. Should an account be used to commit a violation of the rules it will be disciplined appropriately regardless of who was playing it at the time.

Not to be a wise-ass, this is a serious question but based on your remark, trading accounts for accounts should be legal then, correct?

[big league chew]

id figure another acct is a form of virtual currency

[Ravager]

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

It means that bona fide traders/purchasers of accounts that were not currently banned, but simply flagged for MQ/RMT and subsequently banned, got screwed. While the sellers made off like bandits.

Serves them right, they've only been warned about the dangers of account trading since the dawn of the server.

[Ele]

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

Serves them right, they've only been warned about the dangers of account trading since the dawn of the server.

That might have merit if the bannings/unbannings were handle evenly in the past. The constant flow of unbannings for RMT/MQ after a few months is a waiver of that argument and basically nullifies that position held by the staff. Tons of blatant and notorious RMT'd accounts are running around still. Why do the people that were known RMT'ers get a free pass when BFP victims get screwed?

Mythoxxus is standing next to me in KC right this instant as an example.

[Nirgon]

You need to outlaw in those rules paying people plat to play an account

[Ephi]

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

No offense Ephi, but this isn't really clear. To me this sounds like "don't buy and sell accounts or you will be banned if the account was connected to MQ or RMT."

Please clarify, is account buying/selling a bannable offense now? What are the repercussions of doing participating in this?

Sorry, my fault for lack of clarity. I was speaking more from a historical sense.

Account trading in any form is against the rules. It could result in the buyer, seller, forum accounts, etc. all being banned. So just don't do it.

[Ephi]

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

You need to outlaw in those rules paying people plat to play an account

This would fall under sharing account credentials, which is also subject to the same treatment.