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!).

[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.

[Tonuss]

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.

It might be fun at first, but having to play in order to make money would probably burn a person out pretty fast. Can you imagine having to play WOW 6, 8 or 10+ hours every day?

As for the main topic, it seems to me that most people who ask/accuse us of selling accounts are looking for a reason to criticize multiboxing. When "they have no friends" or "they fail so bad they need five accounts" doesn't get the reaction they wanted, they can always fall back on accusing us of something that might get our accounts banned. So accusing multiboxers of selling accounts or gold will be popular amongst the knuckle-dragging crowd.

[Littleburst]

It might be fun at first, but having to play in order to make money would probably burn a person out pretty fast. Can you imagine having to play WOW 6, 8 or 10+ hours every day?

Beats working at a Conveyer belt any day, i'd asume