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LigerXT5 t1_j0vn7ch wrote

Reply to comment by FunctionBuilt in Lawsuits suggest some video game cheating could be illegal by Zhukov-74

I've heard similarly, people would power level their MMORPG accounts, and sell them on ebay. Blizzard cracked down on that. I think Everquest was the start on that.

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garash t1_j0xi7pp wrote

Sold my Ultima Online account for $2500 back in the day. That bought my car.

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ojedaforpresident t1_j0zjjjn wrote

I’m not sure what’s more nostalgic, a used car costing 2500$, or an EQ account costing that much.

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garash t1_j0zlgq7 wrote

And it was a 1969 Barracuda. Granted I had to do a ton of work on it.

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ojedaforpresident t1_j0zlugg wrote

Damn! Way to trade up!

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garash t1_j0zvzli wrote

Until I blew the engine, it was a great car. Dumped the coolant out at speed and I didn't notice it until it was over.

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sregor0280 t1_j0ypun6 wrote

In vanilla wow I would level you to cap in like 6 days for 250. I would level 4 accounts at a time, I played a tank and would multi box with macro software to emulate key presses when I would press a key mapped in this software on box1 it would press a mapped key on boxes 2 through 5.

I made about 1k a week playing wow this way.

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ojedaforpresident t1_j0zjov1 wrote

“Playing”

You do you, but that’s work, and you should be paid for that.

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sregor0280 t1_j0zunsr wrote

And I was. Did you miss the part where I said I was making 1k a week doing this?

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ojedaforpresident t1_j0zwi3y wrote

No, but characterizing that as “playing” is just not correct. No need to get defensive, I can read.

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Adebisi5 t1_j0xpa0b wrote

it was the same for wow. ppl making 500-2k a account.

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r0gue007 t1_j0wtd2f wrote

Wouldn’t that just be against the TOS though?

Not illegal

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LigerXT5 t1_j0wycye wrote

Illegal, no, but against TOS. At the start of WoW, I don't know, but I do know it became a big deal years later when the activity became more noticed.

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postmankad t1_j0y6f8p wrote

I sold my EverQuest account for $2500 back before any expansions came out. It helped that I was a member of Fires of Heaven and had loot from the world first kills on Lady Vox and Nagafen.

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