Comment Only a lawyer (Score 1) 521
could interpret "does not condone the selling of accounts in any way, we will also not attempt to discourage it." and "will not help to resolve, in any way, problems that arise from the selling or trading of accounts." as "... has developed a system for trading, selling and exchanging the Account Items both in-game and out-of-game.
To any reasonable person, stating that you -won't- have anything to do with an action is about as far from establishing a system to perform that action as one can get.
The -only- possible claim that I can see is that Mythic has said they won't attempt to discourage the sales of accounts...and yet they seem to be doing just that (as well as trying to block sales of items). A poor choice of words in their policy, to say the least.
As an employee of another MMORPG, I can assure you that if the court decides that the company has no right to protect their game from these types of profiteers, I'll be recommending that we put them out of business by selling in-game items for real-world cash at a rate lower than they can afford to compete with. Of course, it won't take but a few weeks before those in-game items will lose all in-game value...but them's the breaks when you hand over control to people who have no reason to care about the game's integrity or longevity.
To any reasonable person, stating that you -won't- have anything to do with an action is about as far from establishing a system to perform that action as one can get.
The -only- possible claim that I can see is that Mythic has said they won't attempt to discourage the sales of accounts...and yet they seem to be doing just that (as well as trying to block sales of items). A poor choice of words in their policy, to say the least.
As an employee of another MMORPG, I can assure you that if the court decides that the company has no right to protect their game from these types of profiteers, I'll be recommending that we put them out of business by selling in-game items for real-world cash at a rate lower than they can afford to compete with. Of course, it won't take but a few weeks before those in-game items will lose all in-game value...but them's the breaks when you hand over control to people who have no reason to care about the game's integrity or longevity.
