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#1 Jazzbandit1313

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 06:41 AM

Haven't played steadily for a few months now and thinking about just selling my account, game's getting way too stale. I have an alt for funsies that I could use afterwords if I ever felt the need to come back.

Is selling your account to someone else illegal?

#2 Ghogiel

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 06:49 AM

Not illegal no. But it's against ToS and your account would probably get closed if found out.

#3 Juodas Varnas

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 06:50 AM

Enough to get your account permanently banned.

You REALLY should've posted this in a fresh alt account and not your main one :rolleyes:

#4 kesmai

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 06:52 AM

Hmm. "illegal" would be against law. For this game tos is the law. If no one knows, no one will enforce anything...

make sure to cash in before the ban though...

Edited by kesmai, 30 November 2015 - 06:54 AM.


#5 Jazzbandit1313

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 06:55 AM

Well that's not to say I will sell this account, was just considering it and wondered if it was illegal.

Won't be selling now! That said, not giving PGI any more of my money. I'll go waste it on EA's $50 Battlefront DLC which is actually just the other half of the game.

#6 kesmai

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 06:58 AM

Haven't you had that yet?
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#7 Lugh

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 11:20 AM

View PostJazzbandit1313, on 30 November 2015 - 06:55 AM, said:

Well that's not to say I will sell this account, was just considering it and wondered if it was illegal.

Won't be selling now! That said, not giving PGI any more of my money. I'll go waste it on EA's $50 Battlefront DLC which is actually just the other half of the game.

Why bother. It'll still be boring after like 2 hours played.

#8 Mister Blastman

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 11:23 AM

View PostJazzbandit1313, on 30 November 2015 - 06:55 AM, said:

Won't be selling now! That said, not giving PGI any more of my money. I'll go waste it on EA's $50 Battlefront DLC which is actually just the other half of the game.


You're a sucker if you buy Battlefront. It is the sham of the year.

#9 Juodas Varnas

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 11:33 AM

View PostMister Blastman, on 30 November 2015 - 11:23 AM, said:


You're a sucker if you buy Battlefront. It is the sham of the year.

My message to EA and Dice for f*cking up Battlefront.
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#10 Sandpit

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 11:50 AM

It's not illegal in the criminal sense, but it is illegal in the civil sense. PGI has forbidden this practice with their property. If you do, they can delete, ban, etc. the account.

It would be similar to you renting an apartment (because in this case you don't actually own MWO, you own access to the game and servers, not the game itself and basically rent the game) Yes, that's extremely simplified and no, I'm not going to go into real specific detailed information, just trying to give an example here people.

You can't sell an account. You won't go to jail, but you can have the account completely and totally deleted, user banned, etc.

#11 Burktross

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 11:52 AM

View PostJazzbandit1313, on 30 November 2015 - 06:55 AM, said:

Well that's not to say I will sell this account, was just considering it and wondered if it was illegal.

Won't be selling now! That said, not giving PGI any more of my money. I'll go waste it on EA's $50 Battlefront DLC which is actually just the other half of the game.

Fallout 4 is a much better investment. Not perfect, but worth my 60$ tbh. Battlefront 2 is much better than Newfront.

#12 Rhaythe

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 11:56 AM

Thankfully, the "open beta" EA had for Battlefront was all it took to convince me to keep my cash in my pocket. Too flat, too stale, too same-y. Utterly uninspired. Been playing through Dying Light instead.

Why yes, it is an older game. Why yes, I do have a 3 year-old at home restricting by budget.

#13 SuomiWarder

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 01:55 PM

It occurs to me that simply gifting the account to a friend that happened to be gifting you with say....30 tacos ... on the same day isn't covered in the TOS.

#14 Nightmare1

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 02:00 PM

View PostMister Blastman, on 30 November 2015 - 11:23 AM, said:


You're a sucker if you buy Battlefront. It is the sham of the year.


As a huge SW:BT fan, I was so disappointed by it. :(

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 02:16 PM

View PostJazzbandit1313, on 30 November 2015 - 06:41 AM, said:

Haven't played steadily for a few months now and thinking about just selling my account, game's getting way too stale. I have an alt for funsies that I could use afterwords if I ever felt the need to come back.

Is selling your account to someone else illegal?


as per http://mwomercs.com/conduct

ACCOUNT TRADING

This category includes both advertising your account or characters for sale or trade, or advertising that you are looking for an account or characters to purchase through:

Forum posts
Linking to eBay or other online marketplaces
Listing you have something for trade and then offering your contact information
If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:

Be given a final warning, after which any further Code of Conduct violations may result in a permanent ban from the forums
Be permanently banned from the forums

#16 Mister Blastman

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 02:21 PM

View PostNightmare1, on 30 November 2015 - 02:00 PM, said:


As a huge SW:BT fan, I was so disappointed by it. :(


Yeah I tried the beta/demo and decided to not buy it. I was... upset, to say the least.

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 02:25 PM

I think the irony here is thinking your MWO account is valuable....

That's what makes this hilarious.

#18 Troutmonkey

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 04:22 PM

For sale: Awesome Knock-Knock joke! Includes free Runescape account!

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#19 MechaBattler

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 05:04 PM

View PostTroutmonkey, on 30 November 2015 - 04:22 PM, said:

For sale: Awesome Knock-Knock joke! Includes free Runescape account!

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Back when I played WoW with my brother, he got paid like 5k gold to essentially give up his character's name. 5k was a lot at the time. So he did it and didn't have to worry about paying for enchants and whatnot for the rest of that expansion.

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Posted 30 November 2015 - 05:18 PM

You can buy a bona-fide bundle of nothing for 5 bucks from Cards Against Humanity

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Yes, that was for real.





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