xXMeowMeowXx wrote: »Why care tbh. I think ZOS should let us sell our accounts.
I mean did they do anything malicious on the account ?
It is against TOS but not sure why, except to protect the buyer maybe. Perhaps because people can get their accounts back.
Not attacking or arguing with you, just curious
They are not our accounts. We do not own them which is why we cannot sell them. This is typical for MMORPG games.
Just explaining why.
xXMeowMeowXx wrote: »Why care tbh. I think ZOS should let us sell our accounts.
I mean did they do anything malicious on the account ?
It is against TOS but not sure why, except to protect the buyer maybe. Perhaps because people can get their accounts back.
Not attacking or arguing with you, just curious
BackStabeth wrote: »
You pay for a license to play the game, regardless if you think or feel that an account is yours, it doesn't actually belong to you it belongs to ZoS. So legally you cannot sell an account.
EVE Online allows for characters to be sold between accounts using in game currency. I think it would be interesting if ZoS could figure out a way for people to sell individual characters between accounts for crowns.
But selling accounts for money comes with all kinds of legal issues that prevent this being possible.
xXMeowMeowXx wrote: »Why care tbh. I think ZOS should let us sell our accounts.
I mean did they do anything malicious on the account ?
It is against TOS but not sure why, except to protect the buyer maybe. Perhaps because people can get their accounts back.
Not attacking or arguing with you, just curious
skrvbb10rd wrote: »
We don't own the account, plus it strikes me as a pretty scummy thing to do.
BackStabeth wrote: »
You pay for a license to play the game, regardless if you think or feel that an account is yours, it doesn't actually belong to you it belongs to ZoS. So legally you cannot sell an account.
EVE Online allows for characters to be sold between accounts using in game currency. I think it would be interesting if ZoS could figure out a way for people to sell individual characters between accounts for crowns.
But selling accounts for money comes with all kinds of legal issues that prevent this being possible.
skrvbb10rd wrote: »Unfortunately, I've just seen someone advertising their ESO account for sale. This was done in a discord channel, and not in-game so I was not able to report the player in game.
I am no longer in the guild this discord is for, so I cannot find an account with the corresponding @name that way. However, I am able to /whisper@[name from discord]. I don't want to report an innocent player, though, if this isn't the seller.
I have screenshots of:
- The message sent to the discord channel, including the guild name, poster's name (which is identical to the /whisper able @ mentioned above) and link/URL to the account selling website.
- the account selling website featuring the account in question. This details DLC owned, Crown Store purchases, price of the account, end time to buy this account (March 30), characters and levels etc.
It also appears that this is being done through the selling of a steam account used to access the ESO account. A screenshot is posted on the site showing the steam ID of the seller on this website - this is included in the screenshots I took.
So, what (if anything) can be done about this? Is there a way to report this?
Jayman1000 wrote: »
But you can legally sell access to the account, it's not illegal in most countries with decent human rights (most western countries). But it most certainly is against the TOS, and of course no doubt action can and will be taken against the account by ZOS if discovered. Why risk that?
I honestly dont understand why anyone want to buy an account, why not actually play the game? I have so many fond memories playing the game, leveling up. Same reason I wont ever understand the pay2win concept from the consumers viewpoint.
They are not our accounts. We do not own them which is why we cannot sell them. This is typical for MMORPG games.
albertberku wrote: »I find it really odd that people take time for this kind of stuff. People grinded an account and want to earn money through it, buyer probably has no time to do it self, wants to play the game, buys the account. Just because of one person chasing them like he has nothing better to do, they are going to lose what wouldnt give anyone any harm if they had it. Buyer happy, seller happy, and it does literally no bad to anyone else. Not your business. Like, what good are you going to do with doing what you do? And on top of everything, seller is not even doing this as a job, he is just selling his own account to earn some money. Maybe he needs some money atm or maybe he is not going to play game anymore and all time he spent, he wants to get some money for his work. You want to get the account banned. I would recommend thinking again before reporting them.
This reminds me a video, where USA police busting a couple in a public toilet cabin having sex, when all other cabins are empty and they are not occupying anything. Who called the police? Why did they call the police? And why cant they just mind their own business?
It's typical, yes, but it could be interesting if someone with too much spare time and money went to court about this: Our accounts are linked to software licenses we bought, and at least in the EU it's actually illegal for the company to prevent resale of licenses, used or not. Valve and Microsoft had to learn that the hard way.
ManwithBeard9 wrote: »
Plenty of people don't want to "waste" time by leveling up and learning everything. Plenty of people don't/won't want to try to get crown store/crate stuff themselves so they'd rather buy an account with it. It all comes down to people being to lazy to play and would rather just buy/scam their way into the game.
xXMeowMeowXx wrote: »Why care tbh. I think ZOS should let us sell our accounts.
I mean did they do anything malicious on the account ?
It is against TOS but not sure why, except to protect the buyer maybe. Perhaps because people can get their accounts back.
Not attacking or arguing with you, just curious
Jayman1000 wrote: »
But you can legally sell access to the account, it's not illegal in most countries with decent human rights (most western countries). But it most certainly is against the TOS, and of course no doubt action can and will be taken against the account by ZOS if discovered. Why risk that?
I honestly dont understand why anyone want to buy an account, why not actually play the game? I have so many fond memories playing the game, leveling up. Same reason I wont ever understand the pay2win concept from the consumers viewpoint.