Is it okay to take gil to delete characters (mules/alts) you own?

[Celes_Chere]

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Would be nice to get an official word from GM who understands this. This wouldn't be a transaction outside of the game.

Someone offers you gil, or you offer to delete your said character for gil.

Timing would best be done on voice chats.

Proof of ownership would be needed before the transaction.

You would add that person to your friend list and watch their name change after said transaction.

Don't think people would waste their time trying to scam but its always a possibility.

[MicahZerrshia]

I think you need the rest of us to understand this too not just a GM.

No clue what your getting at.

[IzumiYuki]

Someone bet you to delete your character?

[Rhindas]

I think you need the rest of us to understand this too not just a GM.

No clue what your getting at.

If it's referring to what I think it's referring to, there's this....thing...now going on where people are creating alts with a name to reserve it and then sell it for gil to someone who wants to use that name. You may see this in party finder occasionally.

[Sapphic]

If it's referring to what I think it's referring to, there's this....thing...now going on where people are creating alts with a name to reserve it and then sell it for gil to someone who wants to use that name. You may see this in party finder occasionally.

It would be hilarious if someone paid for that, then during char creation or name change service another person making a character grabbed the name first

[jars]

how can there possibly be much demand for this with last names

[Sakuraluna]

If it's referring to what I think it's referring to, there's this....thing...now going on where people are creating alts with a name to reserve it and then sell it for gil to someone who wants to use that name. You may see this in party finder occasionally.

That's what I think it's referring to, Looks to me like OP is trying to make sure if selling a character name would be allowed, or if it's a punishable offense or something. I'm willing to bet that it'll at least be "frowned upon" by the devs, if they're not able to justify taking action.

[File2ish]

It's probably not a punishable offense.

I really don't see any reason to do this as there is likely very little (near non-existent) demand for what I think you're suggesting. As jars said, we have surnames. The amount of name combinations would just render this method of getting gil completely pointless (and illogical in my opinion) unless you know someone that wants a very specific name for a character bad enough to essentially buy it from you. I would imagine that finding someone for that sort of transaction would be very hard. Even with the name changing available on the Mog Station now, I doubt someone would pay in game money on top of $10USD (or other territory equivalent) for an extremely specific name.

[Kyros]

Doesn't seem any different than "Selling" a house. You basically take gil to release an asset you own at a specific time. Questionable, but not really ToS breaking unless you are getting real money out of this.

[Gilraen]

Hmm... name squatting. Underhanded, disgraceful, selfish. Yes. Rule-breaking, not hardly unless you're scamming.