Professional Farmers

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Bzztt!!  The TOU are part of the rules of the game.  Anybody who exchanges in game items or accounts for cash are violating them.  It would be like an NFL team paying players on the side to get around the salary cap.  It's still against the rules and they still will be punished if caught, even if there is no ingame mechanic for it.
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I belive he was referring to the "virtual world" rules (you know, like gravity and the speed of light in our "meatspace world"). When I give someone 100g there's no difference in-game if I did it because he said "pretty please" or because I got some colourful paper in exchange.

Your NFL analogy would be better if the protection the players wear could only be obtained through ripping it off the dead bodies of your opposing team's players or acquiring it in NFL-authorized shops via some ficticious currency players would get when they enter a playing field, and were authorized to exchange "as long as it didn't involve real dollars."

... I hope EA execs are not reading this post, I can see them making such a game *shudder*.