Posts with tag account selling

What can you do with $10,000? You can buy a nice used car, five awesome computer systems, 2,000 Happy Meals or 40,000 gumballs. You can also apparently become the best geared rogue in the world.

Zeuzo, a rogue from Method on Sylvanas-EU, has reportedly sold his account for 7000 euro, or $9,500. Zeuzo's gear includes the legendary sword set Twin Blades of Azzinoth, 4/5 Tier 6, and many other Hyjal/BT loots. The new owner has transferred to Kazzak and is happily PVPing (reportedly quite badly) under the name Shaks.

I would have assumed that Method would be about ready to kill Zeuzo for profiting off of their guild's hard work, but forum rumor has it that Zeuzo's now playing a brand new rogue in Method. So they can't be too mad at him. If someone in my guild was able to get $10,000 for their account, I certainly wouldn't fault them selling it ... particularly if they cut me in on a share of the profits.

One more interesting thing: looking at Shaks' profile, it hasn't been updated since September 3rd. Considering all the publicity this has gotten, there's a good chance that Blizzard has banned the account, and Shaks is 7000 euros poorer while Zeuzo's laughing at him from a beach in Cancun.

How much do you think your WoW account is worth? $200? $500? Maybe even $1000? If you head over to Ebay, you will see thousands of WoW accounts for sale. I figured out that my AQ40 geared priest and Tier 2 geared warlock, along with various alts and several thousand in gold, is worth approximately $700-$900. I didn't do the exact math, but the time spent leveling all the characters and gathering all that gold and loot...well...let's just say that the new guy working at McDonald's makes a lot more per hour than I'd generate if I sold my account.

That said, if a person was totally finished with WoW, never to return to Azeroth again, why wouldn't they at least consider selling their account? Granted, the return on your time would be bad, but it is better than the zero return you would generate if you never sold it. On the downside, I could see account selling being a popular target for scams, and it is, afterall, against the Terms of Service, so you could expect no help from Blizzard if something goes awry.

Personally, I don't think I could ever sell my account, as I have a lame emotional attachment to my characters. I just can't imagine some stranger playing my characters I worked so hard on.

What do you folks think? Is account selling on the same level as gold buying? Would you do it?