Why buy eBay gold for guild wars?

I mean really.

I really never have alot of gold, but I have armor for my level. Decent weapons also.

There's no uber anything in GW, and that's not a bad thing. I get gold weapons, decent rune drops, gold drops and salvagable rares.

I have 1.5k gold, a max damage sword(purple) enough runes to be a decent sword or hammer warrior(i like hammer better though).

I don't really play alot either, a couple hours here and there. I have no trouble getting enough money just collecting crafting items and selling them to the traders.

So, why buy gold from a 3rd party? I can only think greed. Aw well, lol.

I agree mostly with this post, although I could see how if someone had the money and not a lot of time they would do it. I have never bought or sold anything on ebay pertaining to guild wars, but I think I saw something on the 16th that topped it all. Someone bought the collectors shield for $8.99. Now I have been against using ebay for guild wars, but I have to admit a good part of me thought why didn't I sell that.

simple 500k GWgold would take 40hrs for me just farming (v.boring)

40bucks 1 hours work for me, or a round of drinks for my friends down the pub

leaving 39 hrs to enjoy the game

Not that i would ever buy stuff off ebay thats bad lol

Buying GW items from EBay for real life money is prohibited by the EULA. And no, buying a preorder is not the same thing.

So.. please remember that while someone might have a lot of money to waste on buying gold, they're also risking a permanent ban of their account. The same goes for selling items on EBay, also.

Thats not the question.

The question is why buying and reason was given, it simply the farming grind takes too long as its easier, faster and less boring to just buy it online.

And, actually.....it's not completely against the EULA -technically- because the exchange of real world cash is NOT for an item that is the sole and copyrighted property of ANet. Every vendor on Ebay is careful to point this out. Buyers are paying the player cash for his/her time. *shrugs* Semantic bastiches.

EULAs and the law are VERY vague. Unless the companies all band together, there's going to be little recourse to stop those who sell things on Ebay.

One question that's floated through my mind: Say you're in a guild and one of your farming guildmates hands you 1000 platinum. He offers to do this for all of the guildies. Each of you, in gratitude for his benificence, sends him...flowers or a book or some bauble. Are you violating the EULA if you do this? Semantically it is no different in a fashion than what Ebayers are doing, right?

No, I'm not a supporter of Ebayers. It's just something that occurred to me.

How exactly does one risk this if their accounts are never mentioned publicly, at any time?

But, I didn't farm and I had more than enough money to buy the 700gp armor, and materials to get it crafted.

So, now I can save for my 1.5k armor, and shouldn't have to farm at all to get there.

I think pharming(Pretty Horrendous And Really Mind-numbING, lol, a joke) has been burned into some of our MMO experianced minds by games like Asheron's Call, EverQuest, and World of Warcraft. I remember doing the pharming thing and the sheer amount of time I put in playing EverQuest, lol, damn interface is burned into my retnaes(sp*?).


I'm just saying, in guild wars, you don't really need to pharm to get the items and gold you need, unless your going for Fissure armor. Have mercy, that's going to be a pain...if I ever wish to go for it. More than likely, I won't.

Also, I will admit, I once bought Plat for cash in EQ once. I had been gone for EQ for 7 months and when I got back alot of things changed. So, I dropped the cash got the plat, and "geared up" to be on level with the high end game again. Kind of wish I didn't though, I felt I cheated myself

I love how Ebayers think they're untouchable scholars of the law. Any lawyer would tear this argument apart in seconds, if it came to that.

I think you'd be surprised...

I think they've tried but have probably found the vagueness against their interests and that it's not worth it financially to chase after thousands of people.

that’s why you never see GW stuff on ebay

Fact is it’s easier to make threats and noise than it is to try and stop these guys it’s a useless task.

BTW ironically people I have spoken too who have bought off eBay never felt the need for eBay gold until Anet nerf'd farming leaving them no quick way to earn a few bucks.

Then the question remains, why haven't the folks at AN worked with Ebay yet (like Sony with Everquest) and banned GW items for sale? It appears to most who sell (and buy from the number of positives posted) that AN hasn't done a thing about it. Preaching to us about the ethics of the EULA is one thing, but doing something about it is another. (PS, go watch the bot highway in Riverside Province some day and you'll understand that computer time = zero personal time= minimum risk.)

I did not farmed as well and got to the desert with about 15 plat, I do explore maps.

Problem is not the 700gp armor, problem is the weapon mods, the superior vigor runes, the materials (that became overpriced) and pretty much everything that we look for after we beat the game.

After doing the 3 Ring of Fire missions there is nothing, the 75k set is so overpriced that you cannot casualy get it ... you need to farm for it.

Worst in when you reach Dragon's Lair you start to run 8 members party but enemies still drop 1 item, so chances are change from 1/6 to 1/8 to get a item that at likely is a white item, worth about 50 gp.

Jeez. I wish I made 40$ an hour.

I would think Anet knows who suddendly has a spike in their funds without getting rid of any rare items. And running 5 people to Droknar's doesn't cost 500k, I hope. lol


I'm wondering how people can sell 800k on ebay. One account can only hold 500k.

pfffft not playing the game yet getting access to items and equipment you can only get via playing by using real life money is LAME.

'It cuts doww grind, I dont have a lot of time' Dont play computer games and you will have even more time.

Games, especially mmorpgs and the like are supposed to be escapist realms people join or take part in as a break from their real lives. This is practically fact.
Paying real life money for ingame items or services totally destroys this facade, this 'dream' and in my mind is totally abhorant.

Another thing iv noticed recently. Several 'rich americans' as they call themselves, have been hanging around Lions Arch in the European servers asking to buy max damage weaponry and items, and offering 'Godly prices' for them.

We all know that there is difference in prices acrss the 2servers, whats less known is that is apparantly a breach of the EULA.

I spend a lot of time in Lions Arch, and if I see any of this type of thing occuring, Im going to report it.

Games of for playing, not for screwing around with for cash, real life or imaginary, and abusing game systems for wealth, or purchasing wealth or game time off an internet site is in my view pathetic, and the culprits will be spending many long years in the future wondering why there parents never taught them morality or decency.

Yeah, I have been WAITING for a chance to bring this up:

EULA states what you said, but has anyone noticed companies like IGE and SWAGVAULT who sell currency and items for GW and about 12 other online games? They use the OFFICIAL game logo on their pages and storefronts, and they use OFFICIAL terms and sentencing in their pitches. What I want to know is, if ANET, and the other companies for that matter, "highly discourage the sale of in game currency and items" then why in hell are they not filing lawsuits for trademark infringement on the part of these leeches?

Simple: THEY OK IT!

Which makes me rather sick.

There is no way in HELL that those companies would risk the legal rammifications of using, for example, the WOW logo on their site, to sell WOW stuff on it, if they had no permission to do so. PERIOD. Someone at the MMO game companies is LYING to you.

I do not agree with buying ingame stuff from out of game sources, so this really pisses me off.

That's how I think about this issue too. The worst thing they can do is ban your account.

I didn't think of that. Interesting. If they didn't support it, then I bet a cease and decist order would be posted months back. Good thinking.

Exactly.

I went through this same crap with Lineage II. I would be GANKED by robots who, it turned out later, WORK FOR IGE. I sent a complaint to tech support, and was quite literally told to eat it. Literally.

Which begs the question, what's the truth on this matter?