Support says it's illegal to offer GW1..
I’m assuming you included a few keywords that made it sound like you were attempting to buy, trade or be given someone else’s account, all of which are against the rules. A friend giving you a serial key is fine, however if you give them compensation within GW2, that’s the equivalent of buying gold.
Neither GW1 or 2 are region locked, except for the Chinese version which is basically a different game.
when I tried my best to explain that all my friend is going to do is buy me the game, or in this case, the serial key.
What clearer example of ‘selling of accounts’ (or keys, same thing) did CS need?
Sorry, I get what you’re trying to do and there’s nothing nefarious about it, seemingly, but from CS’ PoV you’re basically trying to sell a key.
when I tried my best to explain that all my friend is going to do is buy me the game, or in this case, the serial key.
What clearer example of ‘selling of accounts’ (or keys, same thing) did CS need?
Sorry, I get what you’re trying to do and there’s nothing nefarious about it, seemingly, but from CS’ PoV you’re basically trying to sell a key.
Selling of accounts is “giving something and getting something in return.” If the friend is giving it as a gift, and doesn’t want anything in return, that’s a gift and completely different.
To the OP: I know you want the official version, but have you looked at Steam? It is selling all the versions for GW1 on it (I don’t know the pricing for it, I recently removed it from my wishlist) compared to the one on the official website. But you could look to see if it’s similar and use Steam to buy it. Steam only lists official games, so you’ll know it’s a legitimate source, plus it’s easy to gift on steam.
As I said, I don’t know the pricing, so it might be more, or less. But it’s an easy gifting option if the other way isn’t working.
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From the Guild Wars 2 License Agreement found in the legal link at the bottom of the page.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-user-agreement/
2. LIMITED LICENSE – SERVICE, CONTENT AND GAME LICENSED NOT SOLD
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(f) Additional License Restrictions – You acknowledge You will not directly or indirectly:
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(iv) sell, sub-license, rent, lease, grant a security interest in, borrow, lend, loan, network or engage in any activity that could in any way transfer or provide others access to any Service, Content, Game, or parts thereof, including but not limited to any serial code number, access key or the like. However, this Section shall not prevent You from selling the original tangible storage medium on which the Game is contained.
No trade is required, simply allowing another player other than the one who it’s registered to access is against the EULA. While a player can sell the physical media, the license is non-transferable which is fairly standard for accessing a service.
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Support says it's illegal to offer GW1..
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Anyone can purchase Guild Wars or Guild Wars 2 and gift the key to another. The account (key) only becomes ‘owned’ once registered.
You can find Dev responses here (using Google) stating this fact.
No worries, your friend, nor you, are doing nothing wrong. You may have written something like ‘my friend wants to give me an account’, and that triggered the (as you suspected) auto-response explaining about already-registered accounts.
Good luck.
From the Guild Wars 2 License Agreement found in the legal link at the bottom of the page.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-user-agreement/
2. LIMITED LICENSE – SERVICE, CONTENT AND GAME LICENSED NOT SOLD
…
(f) Additional License Restrictions – You acknowledge You will not directly or indirectly:
…
(iv) sell, sub-license, rent, lease, grant a security interest in, borrow, lend, loan, network or engage in any activity that could in any way transfer or provide others access to any Service, Content, Game, or parts thereof, including but not limited to any serial code number, access key or the like. However, this Section shall not prevent You from selling the original tangible storage medium on which the Game is contained.
No trade is required, simply allowing another player other than the one who it’s registered to access is against the EULA. While a player can sell the physical media, the license is non-transferable which is fairly standard for accessing a service.
OP’s friend isn’t going to register the account. They are going to gift the OP an account. Like what people do for birthdays and Christmas. At least that was my understanding.
Gifting a new account isn’t a problem, gifting a previously registered one is.
The response the OP got sounded like the issue was gifting a previously used account.
Problem with level 1 support is their responses are from a select list of canned ones based on a resolution tree they transverse after they read an e-mail.
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when I tried my best to explain that all my friend is going to do is buy me the game, or in this case, the serial key.
What clearer example of ‘selling of accounts’ (or keys, same thing) did CS need?
Sorry, I get what you’re trying to do and there’s nothing nefarious about it, seemingly, but from CS’ PoV you’re basically trying to sell a key.
Selling for $0, sounds like a good deal. LOL
And not even an account, just a serial key.
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