Quote Originally Posted by Sam DeathWalker View Post
I really have to wonder though with our putting in a zillion hours of our time and labor that we can't sell the fruits of our labor, thats like microsoft saying you can't sell a C++ program that you wrote with their software, can Home Depot claim they own a house you built with their hammer?

I still think that is an open question but uphill battle as its clear enough from the decision that we don't own the software
There's a pretty big difference there. With a program you write, there's no way around it. With a WoW char, it's just a few bytes in a database. All your "work" is just changing a few numbers in the database. You can't be a MS employee and run a command to make a program, but Blizzard can click a button and generate a level 85 with best in slot raid gear.

The other big issue I see with letting players sell accounts/items/gold is that as soon as someone feels cheated, Blizzard has to deal with it. I'm sure they already spend millions hiring customer service people to deal with compromised accounts and retarded player questions. If someone calls with a problem because they bought/sold an account, at least it's a simple "we can't do anything, that's against our ToS." Not to mention there's no monetary incentive for them to let you sell your account, unless they charged a fee to do it, which would cause even more issues.