Hi,
Someone in here said that the sellers are not selling a service they are selling gold, in this case we know they are selling gold, but it isnt that simple.
An example from my real life, I do this as part of my working routine.
I pay a taxi driver to go and collect something for me. I paid him and he delivered the item.
The taxi driver did not own the item or did I for that matter however the guy got paid and I got the item.
This is service a in which payment was made but nobody involved owned the item.
Same could be said for the service of collecting stuff/gold and not paying for the item itself.
Its also been said that selling gold for cash is against the EULA... which it is but ppl that do this scummy stuff know how to get around it...
So now think of this...
Off the top of my head... If someone was to advertise in the following way on say ebay.
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"Do you find theres not enough hours in the day to do what you want?"
"Is there something on TV you dont was to miss?"
"Why not pay me to sit at my PC while you get on with your life...Its that simple"
Im not selling in game items or special rewards. Just my time.
Im Selling my online game time for Just £1 an hour.
eg.. You pay me £24 and I will play Guildwars (or anyother game) for 24 hours doing anything you want me to do.
I will freely handover anything I collect in that time as I dont want it.
See my past customer comments:
I booked and paid for a 10 hour slot and gave simple instructions and a location, when my time was up I had a tidy sum (1mil) and a few gold items.
I didnt pay for them they were free and he handed them over just as promised.
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Stictly speaking That isnt selling gold in fact it isnt selling anything in the game at all.
The transaction of cash had nothing to do with the game itself. It is someone paying someone else to sit at a machine.
That said there is no doubt what is taking place here...One person pays £X and is given Xgold...
Another way to do it is simply selling Gaming tokens.
Put an add on ebay that you are selling a game token for £10 and that token can be exchanged for in game gold.
You now have a token (could be a virtual one) that can be exchanged for virtual gold.. (this no different to the thading/selling of artwork for in game gold as seen on this very website in the forums).
Most of the EULA talks about in game items/gold for "real-world cash" this simple step removes this totally.
OK so it unlikely ppl would take you up on the above offers, but the point being is it isnt clear cut as it may sound. It is easy to cover what you are doing so that you still stay within the EULA...
Of course Anet also has the right to close any account they wish at anytime they see fit but hey..
Fact: There are too may ways to sell gold to be covered be it ebay or wherever (I meen see it in game often enough!!)
Fact: You will never stamp it out completely as there are a number of ways to obtain and sell it. Some ppl will always buy and so some will always sell it
Not to sound negative but chasing ebayers is wasted time and effort and dosnt realy help (as already posted somewhere).
Stamping out the bots is where the biggest effect would be had. This would remove a large number of offenders. Ok hardcore bot users would find another way/place but then that could be dealt with.
Of course doing this is another issue, but that said we have all seen them following the same path/routines in the same places. Just Identify those that are repeating the same things time and time again. It is obvious that they are not human controlled and that initself is against the rules.... Kill 2 birds with one stone.
We dont need changes to gameplay or bans on afk players (which is what seems to happen in the past) but identify routines/paths that are exactly the same and take action on them.
I do wonder how hard can it really be to keep them under control?
Ok im done...
