The selling of accounts

[quellren]

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

Except, the point of this thread that you and several other people fail to realize, is that in classic and as far as I'm aware, STILL, it is illegal to sell and trade accounts.

To argue this as a point of 'morality', it's disallowed on Live because SOE is a corporation. I'm sure there's legal issues regarding PLing accounts to sell for your profit. Trading is probably a grey area, but it's cleaner to just say 'no' all around.

From the 'it's not classic' standpoint:
1) It happened anyway. (I remember surfing Ebay and finding accounts)
2)It's pointless to throw a fit over it here, it's impossible to regulate because it takes 2 minutes to make an account and create a lvl 1, and as importantly, it may actually have a POSITIVE impact on the community so long as RMT is aggressively prosecuted.
I know several players who leveled a character, got burnt out and traded/sold for another class. This keeps the population high. I myself would have long ago sold my 46 shaman if it weren't on the same account as the character I still play most.

[Zereh]

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

Is this a joke? Account trading was INSANELY rampant in classic.

It didn't start out that way, that's for sure. It took a few years.

[Desert]

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

It didn't start out that way, that's for sure. It took a few years.

you can't un-ring a bell. face it, the first person that decided he wanted to trade/sell his account was on to something.

[soup]

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

It didn't start out that way, that's for sure. It took a few years.

I remember it going pretty strong in Kunark, and by Velious is was booming. I remember in highschool when I was like 15 I made a couple thousand bucks for summer vacation by buying, selling, and trading accounts lol

Summer job? Fuck that, I had EQ

[Zereh]

I'm not trying to un-ring a bell. /shrug I don't give a shit what people do with their accounts. <3 I still have my original account on Live and no one will ever get their filthy paws on my account here.

I personally think it's lame to trade / sell / give handjobs or whatever for pre-leveled characters. For all the QQs of how "easy" it is to level up and how any moron can play any class it kind of surprises me that there's a market for it at all. But I guess the greedy cater to the lazy, so it keeps all of y'all content.

Trade away!

[Ledzepp02]

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

I personally...give handjobs...for pre-leveled characters....

Trade away!

Fix'd!

J/K J/K Zereh =P

[Zereh]

haha ^^ clever monkey

[Dirtnap]

I would never sell my account, but i'd be down to buy a high level druid. lol

But i don't think they should allow the trading of accounts, for in game items or real money.

Doesn't make any damn sense to me to allow in game trades for characters, but not real money. It is still borderline RMT, how many people do you think actually earned all that PP they have? They probably bought it in the first place, and then bought characters or whatever with it. -_-

[TallyDawg]

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

imho, who cares about account selling?

if a happy ending is all you want, i know a place

Starbucks?

[Kassel]

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

I would never sell my account, but i'd be down to buy a high level druid. lol

But i don't think they should allow the trading of accounts, for in game items or real money.

Doesn't make any damn sense to me to allow in game trades for characters, but not real money. It is still borderline RMT, how many people do you think actually earned all that PP they have? They probably bought it in the first place, and then bought characters or whatever with it. -_-

The difference is that if anyone makes RLM off this server Sony can and will shut it down. No one is allowed to profit off their intellectual property. Ingame shit for ingame shit is not a legal issue while RMT is.