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Selling Subscriptions and other game items.

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Mallak Azaria
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#41 - 2012-07-04 17:46:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Mallak Azaria
Danfen Fenix wrote:
CCP Goliath wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Brewlar Kuvakei wrote:
Steam are going to hate this regulation as they really don't want people swapping or selling games.
Don't they already have a mechanism in place to do that?


They have the gift system, but it's different - either you buy the game for yourself, or you buy it as a gift (which I believe you can later gift to yourself if you so choose) but you can only do one or the other, and only once in the case of giving the gift. You can't regift a gift, etc. I'm sure they'll come up with a clever way of circumventing this law for their products if one does not already exist (something like rental laws?)

For GW2, I would think that the software itself can be resold but that gives you little when your key has already been tied to an account so you'd still need a new key. As it's not out yet it's tough to comment.

For us, as has been stated above, I believe our subscription model is unaffected by this law. PLEX is a flavour name - you can redeem it for game time, or for AUR, or sell it on the EVE market for ISK, but it's in no way a software license, nor does it allow you to actually fly spaceships (or planes for that matter) outwith EVE. Warning, the coffee in this container may be hot Cool



So selling game time for money is still against the law, thats understandable.

How about selling off the whole account though ? P Does that £5 you pay on account activation class as the license (and so, allowing the account to be sold under the new law, but not any further game time. That they must buy themselves. ? )


Selling the whole account is still against the rules, as this law covers the selling of software licences. As explained earlier, the account is not a software licence & the software is available to anyone for free.

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rodyas
Tie Fighters Inc
#42 - 2012-07-04 18:00:18 UTC
I think what tard #1 was saying bout plex, is that plex is a time card. Where you can always sell the time card you bought to another person. Of course all PLEX are injected in to the game automatically, so that would give CCP come legal help to not be forced to resale them. If you could buy plex, but then sell them to a friend before they came into contact with the game, that might be legal. But that isn't allowed. You would have to create a hack to get PLEX that does not come into contact with the game.


Point in case, if a black man comes incontact with the south, he is automatically a slave, if a black man from the south, (hacked or cheated in a way) and reached north soil, he is a free man. There you have it, gotta find a way for those PLEX to never come into contact with the game and become a slave to it.

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