Miscellaneous: Account selling/trading against the classic EULA

[Ele]

How in the world can you stop it?


One way I suppose it could be stopped is to have a grace period (1-2 month heavily advertised) to change passwords, then from the end of the grace period to forever make account passwords unchangeable. If you hand out your information, then the other person has it forever. If you buy an account, it is instantly compromised with no chance for restriction. Anyone that had the password before the sale also has it after the sale. This would either drive prices so low as to make it worthless to PL a toon up for sale, or would chill buyers from purchasing accounts due to the risk of loss. There likely wouldn't be anything to stop the seller from handing out the password after the sale thereby further compromising the sold account.

I don't know how this would affect the rest of EQemu, if it had any effect at all.

[happyhappy]

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

How in the world can you stop it?


One way I suppose it could be stopped is to have a grace period (1-2 month heavily advertised) to change passwords, then from the end of the grace period to forever make account passwords unchangeable. If you hand out your information, then the other person has it forever. If you buy an account, it is instantly compromised with no chance for restriction. Anyone that had the password before the sale also has it after the sale. This would either drive prices so low as to make it worthless to PL a toon up for sale, or would chill buyers from purchasing accounts due to the risk of loss. There likely wouldn't be anything to stop the seller from handing out the password after the sale thereby further compromising the sold account.

I don't know how this would affect the rest of EQemu, if it had any effect at all.

Pretty much the same way we enforce 2 boxing: the community.

Would you buy an account knowing anyone that knew the character could report you, possibly get said account banned?

The issue I see is with accounts that would have been purchased before such a rule would be put in place.

[Ele]

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

Pretty much the same way we enforce 2 boxing: the community.

Would you buy an account knowing anyone that knew the character could report you, possibly get said account banned?

The issue I see is with accounts that would have been purchased before such a rule would be put in place.

So anyone can report anyone they don't like claiming that the particular character was sold, shared, or transferred thus putting the person in the system? What about people that hand off the account to a family member, but that person doesn't know the game/class as well as the original person, so people assume they bought the account and it gets reported?

Sounds like a Do Not Fly list.

I agree that people that have already purchased/received accounts through legitimate transactions will hold a great advantage over those without if some stop-gap is ever implemented.

[happyhappy]

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

So anyone can report anyone they don't like claiming that the particular character was sold, shared, or transferred thus putting the person in the system? What about people that hand off the account to a family member, but that person doesn't know the game/class as well as the original person, so people assume they bought the account and it gets reported?

Sounds like a Do Not Fly list.

I agree that people that have already purchased/received accounts through legitimate transactions will hold a great advantage over those without if some stop-gap is ever implemented.

Theres already potential for this to happen with the 2box watch, cept you put two people on the watch list instead of one.

Nirgon is probably right tho, may be just be too late to get rid of it entierly, but something can probably be done to prevent from degenerating even more.