What is GGG's stance on RWT?

Not sure if this was discussed or not, this is solely because of the fact I neglected to search for a thread regarding this very topic.

What is GGG's stance on RWT? If it's a negative stance, what are they incorporating to stop it?

What's RWT ?

Real World Trading?

No, nada, never. Being caught doing this is will pretty much surely get you insta-banned.

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Peanutz wrote:

What's RWT ?

Real World Trading.

As in, trading real life currency for in game items.

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Sterlin wrote:

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Peanutz wrote:

What's RWT ?

Real World Trading.

As in, trading real life currency for in game items.

You'll get banned.

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Peanutz wrote:

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Sterlin wrote:

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Peanutz wrote:

What's RWT ?

Real World Trading.

As in, trading real life currency for in game items.

You'll get banned.

This is what I hoped for, but I was lead to believe otherwise.

Reading the thread during the closed beta regarding RWT, it said that they prohibited RWT "at this time" on their forums, and they said something along the lines of "due to flooding." Making one assume that RWT is allowed, but only outside of the site.

I saw someone post some sites to such activities. Not in this forum, in the diablo 3 forum. He was some troll that said botting in the this game was legal? Pff... Won't give links or anything but apparently this RWT thing is not gonna be stopped. I don't know how they can track the people that used such sites so they can ban them...

Their stance on the issue really doesn't matter much except to really really stupid people engaging in the activity.

The reason it doesn't matter is, they can't detect it.

Consider, let us say I am a member of a guild that spans multiple games. A fellow guild member has something I want in PoE, and I have something he wants in Hellgate Global. We make a trade. This is a real world trade and there is no way for any game company to detect it or stop it.

Unfortunately, the same exact scenario holds true for commercialized RWT. The only thing a gaming company can do is try to keep it from getting out of hand by attempting to detect and stop automated farming (botting). Even that is difficult and expensive. Given a halfway intelligent 'farmer' though, someone could easily create emails and accounts, quickly level up to end game, and then sell the character, account, and email as one package.

Once again, GGG, or any other f2p gaming company, can say no all they want. It is not possible to stop it realistically.

Considering that this question has now been answered, this should probably be locked before anymore examples/sites/etc are given.

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Omnivore61 wrote:

Their stance on the issue really doesn't matter much except to really really stupid people engaging in the activity.

Pretty much.

RMT is going to occur regardless since most of the sites that facilitate it are not tied to any particular game, making it close to impossible for GGG to detect or truly enforce any kind of relevant policy.