Time to End Account Buying/Selling?

[Rhambuk]

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

Distribution of wealth will still take place even if account sales are stopped. This holds true for new players, including myself. A New player who wants to make more plat only needs to exert a little effort to find out what's valuble within their range of aquiring, get it, then sell it. Profit!

I've already got some ideas on how to get easily camped stuff valuble to raiders, sell it, and hopefully earn over 100k WHILE I gain experience.

Again the issue isn't plat for newbs. It's account sales murking up the sandbox for the majority of players on the server. Put a stop to it, and you'll find a lot more people caring about what they do in game or risk losing it all.

you dont think people will raise prices for those useful items to raiders knowing theyre loaded?

this just increases the price od items making it even harder for newer players to try gearing up in ec. but i guess they can do what you do even if thats not how they want to play...

[Rhambuk]

Originally Posted by Nitholias01 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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I started this server like 2 years ago, been playing pretty casually and i've managed to sell and trade my way to CoF, Fungi, few other high ends all on a *drumroll* level 8 monk... and the fun part is my first char here was a monk lol

i'm just one of those folks who despises high end raiding but absolutely love leveling characters.

congratulations! arent you glad you had the option to do that

[Nitholias01]

Lol yes and no.

I say yes because that has been my play style since live, and it's nice to finally be rewarded for my work instead of just a character select screen with a bunch of naked 40+ toons.

But no because I just feel too damn guilty sometimes hahaha

[Rhambuk]

Originally Posted by Nitholias01 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Lol yes and no.

I say yes because that has been my play style since live, and it's nice to finally be rewarded for my work instead of just a character select screen with a bunch of naked 40+ toons.

But no because I just feel too damn guilty sometimes hahaha

life is about enjoying our guilty pleasures! be proud!

[letsallkillandy]

I have a hard time siding for the sale of accounts seeing as it encourages RMT to happen. Theres no good reason to keep it. Theres no negative effect if we got rid of it.

[Uggme]

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

you dont think people will raise prices for those useful items to raiders knowing theyre loaded?

this just increases the price od items making it even harder for newer players to try gearing up in ec. but i guess they can do what you do even if thats not how they want to play...

Yes, newer players get items raiders want or are too lazy to get themselves. New players profit. Old player with plat to spare uses it. Win / win for all. old item costs will stay down for newbies due to how common they are and the fact that they themselves can camp it under a lot of circustances.

Using "its good to spread the wealth" is not a reason to keep account sales in place. It's an excuse.

[myriverse]

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

Can't do the IP thing. Some people, especially Euros have Dynamic IPs that change (almost?) daily.

There's that, and we live in a mobile world these days. I can sit at my desk at home and choose between 5-6 IPs to play P99 (mine, a friend's, and 3-4 hotspots in proximity). Give me 10-15 minutes, and I can double the choices easily.

[Woahnelly]

Reading this late. Somebody posted "how would they ban selling accounts tho?"

What if there were no password changes allowed? Nobody would buy an account if the former owner could access it also, right?

[Stinkum]

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

Reading this late. Somebody posted "how would they ban selling accounts tho?"

What if there were no password changes allowed? Nobody would buy an account if the former owner could access it also, right?

Yep.

Nobody's gonna buy any accounts if there were no PW changes allowed to EQMU for LS passwords.

Who the hell would trust the seller not to just come back and steal all the items you put on the character? Or straight up delete him? Or resell him a second time? Third time?

Remove password changes will effectively gut account selling/buying, and is extremely doable.

[Swish]

The thread is at a dead end really... I think the point has been made that its too far down the road (not to mention more work for the volunteers) to ban account selling.