Ban Account Sales

[Seaweedpimp]

psh

[Daldaen]

Aside from the retards derailing my thread... for reals this should happen. Ban selling accounts for platinum. K thanks.

[Seaweedpimp]

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

Aside from the retards derailing my thread... for reals this should happen. Ban selling accounts for platinum. K thanks.

why

[Glitch]

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

Ban selling accounts for platinum. K thanks.

Reward selling accounts by granting temporary exp bonuses to purchased characters.
Selling accounts helps the in-game economy

[Doors]

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

The large majority of RMT on this server has to be account sales; why take the risk of getting caught selling just an item or two if you plan on continuing to play? Liquidate everything, sell the stripped account and plat and walk away.

Banning account sales would eliminate the vast majority of RMT.

No. It wouldn't.

[Daldaen]

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

why

Why to "why should they ban account sales"?

[Roanoke]

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

Thanks for bringing this up.

It isn't classic WITHOUT RMT. Checkmate sir!

Also wrong. I payed 10kpp for a stripped 35 monk during Kunark. Over my EQ career I probably had 25-30 or so different accounts in my possession over the 8-9 years I played and I never spent more than the monthly subscription fee on the game.

[Daldaen]

EULA violation!

But the 1st poster got it. It easily lets people wipe their reputation clean. Which isn't good for a community. It destroys accountability when you can be a total douchenozzle, then sell your account for 50k and buy another toon.

And community is a large part of this server.

[Daldolma]

It's impossible to prevent people from starting with a clean reputation. They can always just re-roll.

Account trading is a good thing. It helps the economy and allows people to jump around classes they may not have ever played. Most people do not have the time or inclination to level a class they've never played before into the 40s or 50s just to determine if they like it. That's a huge time commitment. Account trading allows people to test out other classes without being irrevocably bound to the toon. If you buy a character and don't like the class, you can turn around and sell it again -- no harm, no foul.

This is an emulated server. It shouldn't be about having the big, swinging e-peen. It should be about letting people re-experience a great game, and letting them explore elements of it that they didn't have the chance to explore way back when. Account dealing allows players to experience more of classic EQ. Personally, I have very little interest in waking up at 3AM to kill a dragon with 60 other people in a trivial encounter that I've done 100 times before, just in hopes that I obtain a minimal gear upgrade. But I do have an interest in, say, trying out a bard for the first time. That's fun, and I could do it when I want and when I have time. But if I had to actually start a bard from level 1? Meh, not real appealing to me. I don't have the time to do that with every class I want to give a go. It's so much easier to just farm for a couple nights and buy a toon.

[hotstud]

I do agree account sales shouldn't be allowed. This post also should be in Server Chat not R&F. People have no problem at all selling their accounts for platinum using this forum or even in game auction and then selling that platinum to others for real money. Allowing account sales here encourages and supports real money trades eventually. Everyone knows this is true.

"Why are you selling your account?"

"I'm quitting the game..."

"Why do you need plat if you're quitting?"

"Oh I uhh.. wanted to give it to newbs."