Real Money to Get In-Game Currency: Eternal Bond Edition

[Grimmel]

So literally half the party finder on Balmung is littered with people buying the Eternal Bonding bracelets for real money and selling them for 2.5-3 mil gil.

Isn't this against the ToS? Using real money to gain in-game currency?

[Kyri]

Though im not a GM and I can't say how they will respond Tera did this with a lot of items. Mostly vanity but at one point even subscription. It actually worked out really well for those who make good money in game and no so much in RL and helped those who weren't good at farming up gil in game also have gil so im actually kinda cool with this idea

Honestly a Lot of games do this sort of thing and it works out quite favorable in the end. I doubt Se would mind if they don't mind people selling wins for ridiculous prices. I would be more opposed if it was something you could only buy from a cash shop. Buying cash shop items and selling them on game is great for some people.

Also, that seems like an appallingly low return on your 'investment' 2.5-3mil for 20 dollars...I mean, I have no idea what the RMT's charge...but that seems like a lot of real money to spend for a very small gain...

it works well to cut rmt out too I mean yea its a bit of a jip to spend 20 bucks to sell something for 5 mil when rmt say buy 5 mil for $10 but at the same time there's no illegal transaction going on with a shady person se is already investigating and no chance that banning so in the end it hurts the rmt and keeps people from doing stupid things likely to get themselves banned. This also helps people who make more real money then others and helps those who make gil better then real money. Kinda a win win, unless your a rmt.

(also it's Christmas and im broke so this is kinda great to me as I make a good amount of game money farming)

[Welsper59]

This is why we can't have nice things.



In all honesty though, I'm sure they're okay with it and knew of that potential beforehand. The fad will likely die off VERY soon. Sure, some people may continue to try to sell these goods, but at the price it is on the cash shop... it probably isn't worth it for 99% of the population.

[Zumi]

No because your selling an in game item the bracelet for in game currency.

[Kinseykinz]

Also, that seems like an appallingly low return on your 'investment' 2.5-3mil for 20 dollars...I mean, I have no idea what the RMT's charge...but that seems like a lot of real money to spend for a very small gain...

[Squrilruler]

No because your selling an in game item the bracelet for in game currency.

Pretty much this. I am curious as well. Their ToS is not explicit against it.

[scarebearz]

Odin PF is full of people buying and selling these cash shop items as well...

May as well be playing a F2P game.

[Riepah]

Honestly, if they didn't expect people to sell these, even their most faithful fanboy would start to question their competence.

[Aezelas]

And still, lots of people will continue arguing cash shop is not game breaking

[Tsukotaku]

Still, we need an official stance from the GMs or the Devs. We don't know for sure what they will think about this. Just after 5 minutes of PF I got around 10 messages on the line of "Me and my FC will report you for RMT", "You're going to get banned for RMT", Ecc...

Edit: I'm trying to get contact with one of the active GMs on Ragnarok, if I get something out of this topic I will bring it here.

Edit #2: Support confirms that it's NOT a violation of the TOS.