"Banned for Keyclone"

[aboron]

Blizzard could all but eliminate 3rd party account sales and RMT in one simple move... support it themselves.

Add an "RMT" checkbox to the trade interface and people could buy things from each other with RMT, Blizzard then gets a slice... Add an interface to the website to transfer account ownership to another, with a nominal minimum payment and everything over that (minus a percentage) goes to the seller...

Of course, this then applies a RL$ value to their products and services, which means when something is stolen, there is real value to it and the courts can be involved, of course this creates a tarbaby for Blizzard/Activision so they don't want to do it, despite the gagging bags full of cash they could earn from it.

I actually kind of liked what they do in EVE, you can trade characters between different owners' account for in game gold (isk). I think this would be very handy in wow.

Imagine saving up 40,000 game gold and then buying a fresh 80 with it, or whatever the market would be goldwise for that. So established high level players wouldn't have to grind again, and new players could do something to make themselves a ton of gold at a shot without having to do the same old dailies grind (solo) forever.

This would avoid the real money transaction too.