03-07-2006, 05:28 PM
As Bun and Treesh have pointed out, it's the strings that stay attached to the account itself that bug me more about the selling.
I do have the personal belief that it is your time and effort that you are selling if you sell the account and the legality of EULAs that say you can't still haven't been rigorously tested in the court system. I'm not fully sure where I stand on it. I see the rights of the company and the rights of the individual and I'm not sure where the scales should tip all the time. :) It's one of the fun things about this and other countries, two individuals may have the right to do something but those rights may impinge upon each other and then some rights end up being given priority. those are the tough and valueable decisions our courts make I feel.
Anyway, the less tangible impact on other people that doing this can have is the bigger concern and stumbling block for me. It's the reason I personally couldn't sell an account, even though I still feel I have a right to do it even while I do think Blizzard has the right to say and claim I shouldn't be able to, I think my right should take priority in this instance but again as said it hasn't really been tested.
I wouldn't think any less of you if you did it. I'll miss you in game regardless and I'll know if you do so I'll know that when I see Malody or Hit or Miss running around that I'm not seeing a virtual extension of RTM. I have no issues with things like losing effort I put in to get you gear, because well if it dropped in a raid you put in the effort for it too and our system is designed that effort in = reward out in the long term. If you had highest points you earned it. If you got something that would have been otherwise DE'd you actually gave me more points than if you weren't there. Whatever, that isn't a real issue in my mind. Besides if I gave you something that I found I gave it to you because I wanted to give it to you, I didn't do it to somehow make myself stronger so there is no loss there for me, not even regret that I could have given it to someone else who is still playing, if I wanted to have done that I would have at the time I gave it. So no issue from me personally on that front.
So did I muddy the waters well enough for you?
Do what you gotta do, have fun. I missed having you around when you took the break after "The Cutetest Kid in the World" was born. I'll miss having you around afterwards if the account is yours and dormant or someone else's and active. As said I personally couldn't do it because of the reasons others already illustrated.
I do have the personal belief that it is your time and effort that you are selling if you sell the account and the legality of EULAs that say you can't still haven't been rigorously tested in the court system. I'm not fully sure where I stand on it. I see the rights of the company and the rights of the individual and I'm not sure where the scales should tip all the time. :) It's one of the fun things about this and other countries, two individuals may have the right to do something but those rights may impinge upon each other and then some rights end up being given priority. those are the tough and valueable decisions our courts make I feel.
Anyway, the less tangible impact on other people that doing this can have is the bigger concern and stumbling block for me. It's the reason I personally couldn't sell an account, even though I still feel I have a right to do it even while I do think Blizzard has the right to say and claim I shouldn't be able to, I think my right should take priority in this instance but again as said it hasn't really been tested.
I wouldn't think any less of you if you did it. I'll miss you in game regardless and I'll know if you do so I'll know that when I see Malody or Hit or Miss running around that I'm not seeing a virtual extension of RTM. I have no issues with things like losing effort I put in to get you gear, because well if it dropped in a raid you put in the effort for it too and our system is designed that effort in = reward out in the long term. If you had highest points you earned it. If you got something that would have been otherwise DE'd you actually gave me more points than if you weren't there. Whatever, that isn't a real issue in my mind. Besides if I gave you something that I found I gave it to you because I wanted to give it to you, I didn't do it to somehow make myself stronger so there is no loss there for me, not even regret that I could have given it to someone else who is still playing, if I wanted to have done that I would have at the time I gave it. So no issue from me personally on that front.
So did I muddy the waters well enough for you?
Do what you gotta do, have fun. I missed having you around when you took the break after "The Cutetest Kid in the World" was born. I'll miss having you around afterwards if the account is yours and dormant or someone else's and active. As said I personally couldn't do it because of the reasons others already illustrated.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.