Sunday, January 28th 2007
EBay forbids sales of virtual property, delists current auctions
Internet auction giant eBay has officially stopped allowing auctions of virtual property. This means that people hoping to sell currency or characters in an online game will have to look somewhere else. This is actually simply the enforcement of a policy that's been around since eBay's inception.
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The seller must be the owner of the underlying intellectual property, or authorized to distribute it by the intellectual property owner.As an example of this policy in action, World of Warcraft currency is technically Blizzard's, so you cannot sell it on eBay.
9 Comments on EBay forbids sales of virtual property, delists current auctions
I am not one for selling gold or stuff and making a business out of it.
my brother is a WoW player. Used to play on an American server. Now he is back in Austria. He has a level 60 character, decked out on the American server. He wanted me to sell it for him next week, as he will be playing on the EU servers with the expansion.
So what the hell is going to happen to his months playing, his years of paying (he has been playing since the beginning)?
So what rights do we users buy ourselves by paying that monthly fee?
cheers
DS
Users do not buy "rights" at all, other than the right to cancel your account once you get bored of the repetitive gameplay, quests, and develop carpul tunnel.