Is it okay to sell items for money?

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pyro008 wrote:

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Zequron wrote:

Am against D3's money grabbing auction house, am for PoE's exclusion of it.

D3's "money grabbing auction house" was hardly the problem. Any Auction house is the problem, and the gold one far more than the RMAH as it devalued items so quick that 99.999999999% of items you farm can't compare to something worth 10k. The RMAH is more active in higher end items, so all those low end items that make farming a waste of time wouldn't even be listed on it.


Anyways, I made more than 2x the cost of my CE on that money grabbing auction house. It was one of the best parts of the game for me. No AH is the best option, but if you have an AH your economy is done for anyways, so why not let players make some cash?

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Wittgenstein wrote:

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Exobros wrote:

I was talking with my friend about what we would do if one of us would find a mirror of kassandra. I mean on [Mod Edit: Removed] you would pay 500€ on anarchy for one.
Selling one for real money would be a pretty nice idea :D
How are the rules on this.
Is it allowed to sell items for real money?
Is it ok?

It's totally fine, GGG not only likes to have people play its game for free, they LOVE players selling items for real cash. GGG hates making money.

How exactly does player to player trading affect GGG's income?

it shortcircuits their business model, although I agree that on the surface it seems harmless.

Frankly, this thread is absolutely fascinating due to the sheer amount of hypocrisy on display. I don't even wonder how this thread would look if the OP asked if it was ok to buy items for real money instead of selling them... since i'm basically 100% sure that all those people stating that it's (basically) ok if one doesn't get caught or saying that they can't fault someone for SELLING something for 500€/finding someone silly enough to spend large amount of money on pixels would have the exact opposite reaction if the OP asked if it was ok to BUY 50 exalts and maybe a mirror or two and this thread would turn into a total shitstorm since that would ruin the competitive side, ruin the economy etc. etc. yaddayadda.

And when it comes to GGG "not really doing anything against this sort of thing" - they seem like one of the few developers that actually care about fighting against all this nonsense, but it doesn't make much sense to waste time on banning buyers/sellers one by one - this stuff usually should be done the good old fashioned banwave-way, otherwise it's simply not effective, both from a workload perspective and as a deterrent. 'i've heard of that one guy that got banned' is far less effective as a deterrent than 'they occasionally ban hundreds at once out of the blue... YOU MIGHT BE NEXT!'

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Wittgenstein wrote:

If players can buy the best items available for cash directly from parties not affiliated with GGG, then that circumvents the point of the game - grinding for gear. if a player does not grind for gear, they will most likely not play it that long. If a player doesn't play the game for long they will be less inclined to purchase cosmetic items. Hence, selling items on RMT sites negatively impacts GGG's bottom line.

It's funny, because that's my exact feeling, but just replace the word 'cash' with the word 'orbs' and the words 'parties not affiliated with GGG' with 'players', and read it again.