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deathdela · Mar 13, 2006, 09:07 PM // 21:07

How did he manage to open up a trade showing a million. He is probably joking around or something to get you annoyed. If he really did buy 1 million off ebay what is the point in playing the game if there isnt any goals to achieve and why would you spend real life money on game currency.

Ninetail Trickster · Mar 13, 2006, 09:08 PM // 21:08

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Originally Posted by VampiricuS

in my opinion the only way to stop it from being sold on ebay is for anet to make some sort of agreement with ebay to not allow it to be sold. but thats highly unlikey to happen i think due to the freedom to sell bla bla.

I thought there was initially something EBay did to prevent selling of accounts for EQ... they can throw their weight around and keep what they want from being sold, and have, in a few cases. ANet and EBay could probably work something out...
...or it's a new excuse for a constitutional amendment...

Ensign · Mar 13, 2006, 09:35 PM // 21:35

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Originally Posted by RaabTheGuru

1. They dont want anyone else selling gold, they make it against the EULA to sell stuff via Ebay. This gives them a monopoly.

It is against the EULA to sell gold or in-game items for real-world money to avoid dozens of legal nightmares. The biggest one is taxes. If the company actually accepts that 100k = $5, for example, every 100k the game generates is generated wealth. That's taxable. Then there are issues like someone scamming in game. If items have a real-world value then it's a legitimate criminal offense. Game companies do not want to deal with that. They want to keep it all in house, a private enterprise where they're in control. Hence that stipulation in the EULA.

If you understand the issues around gold selling you'd be laughing at this thread. The idea of a game company selling its own in-game currency is downright absurd. The amount they, and the entire industry, have to lose by doing so is so ridiculously high that no one with half a brain would even think of doing it.

That's not to say there aren't individuals within a MMO company that abuse GM powers or the like to sell gold on the side. You'd be pretty naive to think there aren't such people. But that's not the company, nor any sort of endorsement. If someone who works for an MMO is caught selling in-game gold, particularly if they were abusing in-house powers to do so, they won't just lose their job, they'll be out of the industry for life. This is not a subject they take lightly.

Peace,
-CxE

torquemada · Mar 13, 2006, 09:36 PM // 21:36

I just don't think A-Net would do such a thing, regardless of the fact that such bussiness on ebay could potentially ruin game's economics and the game itself. And the game has over mil accounts. I think the notion, while amusing, is rather silly. But conspiracy theories in general ftw !

UndeadRoadkill · Mar 13, 2006, 10:07 PM // 22:07

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Originally Posted by danakin

I honestly think devs run some of the auctions to catch people. In fact, I seem to recall one of them saying that they do in a log somewhere.

Catch people doing what? The problem is selling, not buying.

Anet entering auctions to catch the IGNs of ebay sellers would make more sense. They wouldn't even be breaching ebay regulations.

Spiderguard · Mar 14, 2006, 03:34 AM // 03:34

Any simple accounting audit would find the money Anet would make off Ebay.