Gem store items: real cash or in-game item?
afik you can not sellf your account or charcter names
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Trading a character name for in-game items is not against the rules (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Selling-Character-Name-Legal) but that is not the the problem c:
Gem store items: real cash or in-game item?
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Posted by: Smooth Penguin.5294
As long as you don’t pay the other person with real world goods (cash or physical items), that trade isn’t technically wrong. However, it’s at your own risk. So if one person doesn’t go through with the trade (Gentleman’s Agreement), Anet won’t step in to help.
In GW2, Trading Post plays you!
As long as you don’t pay the other person with real world goods (cash or physical items), that trade isn’t technically wrong. However, it’s at your own risk. So if one person doesn’t go through with the trade (Gentleman’s Agreement), Anet won’t step in to help.
That’s what I thought too, but I am hoping that somebody official will pop in and confirm it. Better to be safe and stuff c:
ArenaNet Communications Manager
Where does the difference between “in-game items” and “real-world cash” begin? c:
Is a gem store item bought (for personal use, or gifted) with gems purchased with real-world cash (gem card/or credit card) therefore treated as an equivalent to real-world cash, or an in-game item?
Specifically, would it be against the rules to gift gem store items via the gem store (purchased with gems acquired with a gem card) to another player in exchange for a character name?
I understand the risk of being scammed and stuff, that is not a concern c:
Thank you!
We are unable to sanction or grant permission for such a transaction. We’re also unable to help in any way if such a transaction goes wrong. That is to say, we cannot complete a transaction or reverse a scam.
For example: we could not remove items from one account and place them on another, but we would take appropriate action on someone we can establish is a scammer. Players do occasionally ask us to intervene in unfulfilled trades — “go take my item and give it to me!” — but we do not do that. Scam prevention is one of the key reasons the devs created the Trading Post, and we expect that players will use that feature.
I do not think this transaction would result in account action, but I want to be clear that that is not a legal position, simply an observation of the details as provided in this single case.
Gaile Gray
Communications Manager
Guild & Fansite Relations; In-Game Events
ArenaNet
Communications Manager
Guild & Fansite Relations; In-Game Events
ArenaNet
Thank you Gaile!