Ebay to ban the sale of Virtual items for games

**Adam** · 25th January 2007, 12:12 PM

Saw a thread on stratics in which someone said Markeedragon had posted that they were banning the sale of Virtual items in games and removing existing auctions

So I decided to chat with a live rep at Ebay

Cerwin Vega · 25th January 2007, 12:18 PM

man thats gonna make a few people mad, but then i guess their are still website you can buy from.

moxie_denzien · 25th January 2007, 12:30 PM

wow!

that's a big one folks.

especially for the people that rely on that way of making money.

wonder what effect this will have on the economy?

Vindicator · 25th January 2007, 12:36 PM

Sounds to me like you guys need to buy stuff while you can!

Masamune · 25th January 2007, 12:37 PM

Oh no! I've sold a few accounts on ebay.

If I decide to quit I want some cash!!

Petra · 25th January 2007, 12:50 PM

This does stink!

I sold a few accounts on Ebay when I quit for awhile. There are still possibilities of selling the accounts to Online game brokers, who then later sell the account for more money to someone else...but I would assume you would not get as much money as you would have on Ebay...

moxie_denzien · 25th January 2007, 12:51 PM

you can always sell on tradespot though...

Nevaeh · 25th January 2007, 01:03 PM

some people are going to be rather upset about this. i dont really mind people selling accounts, but when u go to ebay and people are selling minor things like ingots....... it kinda puts a bad taste in my mouth.

Bo · 25th January 2007, 01:03 PM

I think this will help the ingame economy big time. People wont be out buying mass amounts of gold, to buy the items ingame for inflated prices anymore. I feel sorry though for the people wanting to sell their accounts for money that is equal to their time invested. It's a good step in the right direction towards fixing the economy though!

atlas607 · 25th January 2007, 01:14 PM

wow, guess we didn't even have to wait for uo to ban the sale of it's own items.

Petra · 25th January 2007, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bo

I think this will help the ingame economy big time. People wont be out buying mass amounts of gold, to buy the items ingame for inflated prices anymore. I feel sorry though for the people wanting to sell their accounts for money that is equal to their time invested. It's a good step in the right direction towards fixing the economy though!

This is a huge step towards fixing the game's economy, which has always been an issue since the first bulk resource auction appeared on Ebay. Sure, I'll pay $10 for 80k of each reg...but what is the point? What is the point in playing UO to begin with if a person is THAT lazy?

However...I am a little upset over this including player accounts and/or houses.

On the flip-side, I can see Ebay's view on this. Maybe there were a lot of dishonest auctions going on and people got screwed out of 100's of dollars over pixel crack.

**kitiara** · 25th January 2007, 01:25 PM

Anyone have info on the reasoning behind this (from ebay's perspective.... I hardly think it's ebay's responsibility to police the in-game economy of online RPG's, and if the game developers themselves don't care to regulate the sale of virtual goods, I highly doubt that's ebay's motivation for this)?

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