Do boxers sell their accounts?

[valle2000]

Many times I get comments if I'll sell my accounts on ebay. I say no but people often don't believe me. Why do they think this? Do many boxers normaly sell their accounts or why do they get these ideas?

I would never sell my accounts, not even if the day come I'll stop playing WoW. The characters feel like my personal property (might in fact even consider them fictional friends) so I would never want any others to play them. Also if I ever stop I want to have the possibility to reactivate again.

Is this just me, or do many of you also feel a kind of personal affection to your characters?
Or would you sell them?

[katsurahama]

This is the comment i hear most often from people 'so how are you selling those accounts?'

Also, 'ni hao!' and REPORTED! and 'are you a gold farmer?' to the last one i usually say, Yes i must be a gold farmer because i'm obviously very sneaky and nobody will ever notice five identical toons with similar names.'




I doubt people sell their accounts. You can be banned if youre played accts in different names simultaneously. If you sell an acct in your name and someone bots it or sells gold and the acct gets banned then all your accts can be banned because theyre in the same name.

Finally, its a lot of work to level accts by hand and i wouldnt want to start all over again (again!) if i quit and wanted to come back (again!).

[MiRai]

EDIT: Forget it...

[ElectronDF]

I am offended that anyone would sell their accounts. If you flaunt it out loud, I will report it any chance I get.

[Littleburst]

I've not yet even considered to sell them, so I'm not commenting on that.

But i can understand that people think that we're selling the accounts. By boxing 4 chars instead of 1 you're atleast 3x as effective. Seeing that there are plenty of bots running leveling chars, it's not that complicated to get such a conclusion.

The thing to keep in mind is that some people tend to speak and think it through afterwards or not at all.

[Ualaa]

In Warcraft I've not sold accounts, characters or gold.
Anyone who asks, I've always said that flipping burgers at McDonalds would be far more money per hour, and that I could not possibly part with <insert character> because her tail (or ears) is too sexy or whatever.

For the last six months of Everquest, I turned it into a business.
Was using four accounts to power level a fifth to maximum level and then "twinking" them with gear one tier or so back from current content.
For the time invested, it wasn't really good money; a minimum wage job anywhere would have been comparable.
And the game was not at all fun.

Did not want Warcraft to turn into a boring event, so have no even considered doing the same.

[birdbleed]

I saw a breakdown of the time invested vs money earned from selling the account, somewhere. It wasn't even close to being worth it with the estimates that were used. I can't remember where I saw it so I can't check but I think it came out to be around $1.50/hr.

[Littleburst]

I saw a breakdown of the time invested vs money earned from selling the account, somewhere. It wasn't even close to being worth it with the estimates that were used. I can't remember where I saw it so I can't check but I think it came out to be around $1.50/hr.

It's probably still more fun then most badly payed jobs. I got a whisper from a guy who had an accident and couldn't work anymore. He was thinking about starting to box to make some money. It's probably not very effective, but could work in a situation like his.

[Fat Tire]

I had a huge post written but would have probably gotten the thread locked or flame war started so I deleted it.

I will say that I dont believe any boxer plays with the intention of selling their accounts.

[Svpernova09]

Look,

The ToS violating things of WoW are often something we come into contact with on an everyday basis being boxers. But at the same time the rules of this site are pretty clear. Now in the past few months I've tried to be a bit relaxed on this. I'm not the WoW police. If you're violating any agreements you have with them I frankly don't give a shit. Where I do give a shit is when you come here flaunting / taunting it just because you can.

I have a hard time saying "Don't talk about X it's against the ToS" where clearly, we deal with misconceptions that we're violating the ToS every single day. I'm not saying we're changing the rules and any topic is fair game here. We're not changing the rules at all. I think it's every multiboxer's responsibility to be able to clearly speak to the ToS specifically to the points where they're not breaking the rules.

So maybe this will help clear up some of the grey area of moderation:

Not OK:
"lols I make a BAJILLION GOLD AND SOLD IT ALL TO SUPPORT MY ALCHEMY HABIT"
"Do this exloit to makes 1,000 every 2 seconds, x 5 that's 5k every TWO SECONDS"

OK:
"Hey guys, did you see that court case where glider actually won some arguments?"
"I got told most boxers sell their accounts, is there any truth to this?"
"Selling gold will get you a ban, but has anyone every really been banned for buying it? seems like a double standard"

Hopefully this clears up a few things. If not, feel free to ask.