Rinnhart,Mar 6 2006, 06:29 PM Wrote:No, no it's not.
You're signing a contract every time you log on. Part of that contract reserves specific ownership rights for Blizzard. That's not moral high ground, it's legal high ground.
The moral high ground comes in where activities like selling accounts, items, and gold damage games, so Blizzard or any other company responds by tightening up the rules, nerfing the decent farming spots, and all around killing the party.
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And until Blizzard actually does a damned thing about it, it doesn't matter whether or not it's legal high ground or not. People sell accounts, gold, and items every day for real-world cash, and Blizzard doesn't do anything about it.
EDIT: About the moral bit: It doesn't ruin the game. People farm the money, and then sell it. That money is used by others to buy things like epics off the AH, epic mounts, and enchants. If you're poor, you feel screwed. If you're rich, or if you find an epic or good rare, then you can sell it for many times what it would "normally" be worth (which is actually what it's worth.) Case in point: I found a Glowing Brightwood Staff while questing in Silithus, sold it for 918g (after having a friend put an INT enchant on it), and used the money to buy my epic mount. Gold farming and gold selling/buying doesn't ruin the game.
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