Guild Wars 2

In GW1 we had a lot of people doing artwork for other people for ingame payment. I wonder if this is legal in GW2. If so I might put up the best paying ever offering an Eternity for the artist willing to do what I ask for. Image shows kinda what I’m looking for, though I’m looking for artwork of a collection of my GW1+GW2 toons.

The issue with something like this is that it relies on payment being sent through in game mail. This creates very easy opportunities for someone to scam someone out of their money or out of their artwork.

I would think the biggest issue would be realizing that ANet will not enforce bargains.

I’d personally make a really clear and easy-to-spot record in the chat logs around the time of purchase/currency transfer that it’s for artistic services rendered so that if you get randomly scooped up on suspicions of buying/selling gold you at least have a bit of a paper trail when you plead your case to Support.

Was thinking of doing some kind of forum competition for the Eternity too. That would also mean no chat logs or ingame contact prior to transfer. I might not play for much longer and I just find it more fun to either get custom artwork out of the GS or some fun forum competition for all of you to enjoy.

well… id work for money…. but.. item? i just dont know…

Here’s the quote from Gaile:

Gaile Gray.6029:

It is not permissible for you to exchange real-world goods or services for in-game currency. Thank you very much for asking about this!.

And now it goes underground.

((cue hip edgey street tunes here))

I have about 150 pieces of commissioned art, mostly of my MMO characters. While I get 5-12 pieces each year via face-to-face meetings at the SDCC, I also do a fair amount of business over the web. Send me a private message if you’d like some suggestions for artists and price ranges. Most deals go through Paypal.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Here’s the quote from Gaile:

Gaile Gray.6029:

It is not permissible for you to exchange real-world goods or services for in-game currency. Thank you very much for asking about this!.

Strange, because people do it all the time on this forum.

I’ve done it 4 times, not banned yet. Strange indeed.

In game gold though.

I’m pretty sure that Gaile means real goods and services like “mow my law for 30g” or “buy me a visa giftcard for 100g.”

i’ve done a good deal of art for gold. Anet doens’t have a problem with it.

also, is that drawing something you made? because the coloring is AMAZING…. i gotta learn how to do that, i can do pencil/paper pretty well, but coloring… that i need to learn

There was a similar post about this topic a few months ago. No one from Anet responded and the general conclusion was that it is fine. I would assume the same goes for items bought with gold.