Anyone experienced with selling in-game items by real money?

[ThinkerShell]

Im not gonna find mates, I've heard things and wanna and wanna know about how its revenue is good?

[WindAtMyBack]

No, but I have thought about doing it in games I don't play much any more. It seems very high risk to me. It's high risk that the deal itself will go bad, and it's high risk of getting perma-ban and losing everything.

Some of these guys advertise on EBay. As far as I know their ads don't get taken down, so apparently it's doesn't violate EBay rules.

[ThinkerShell]

Searched a bit about how legal or illegal it is and it seems companies hard circumstances aren't supposed to "stop" the RMT market its just to take control over it
There are bug platforms for such trades and no one is about to stop them. This action violates no laws

[WindAtMyBack]

As far as I know it's not illegal in a criminal sense. But it's probably considered a violation of a civil contract. I've never heard of it being enforced in court, but players get banned for it. As far as Ebay, they have their own rules and can enforce them. I don't know if RMT is against their rules or not, but there are sure a lot of people there doing it.

I know a lot of people think the RMT sites run by the game company, but I would be very surprised if that is true. I just don't think they'd do that, and there is no money in it for them. The amount of money involved might be a lot for individuals, especially if they live in a low wage country. But that money is nothing for a game company. They rake in lots of money from subscriptions or MTX or whatever. I doubt if RMT money is worth their time.

There might be exceptions someplace like China where they have warehouses full of computers mining this stuff.

[ThinkerShell]

That's exactly the spot where questions come!
Companies make the right for themselves to somehow banish accounts doing it but they let the most of them go while they can easily detect and ban them
Plus to that, why they don't make requests for the court to make it illegal in order to save their billions dollars business? Actually they're OK with this easy peasy account ban job which never stops this market
(I agree with you that those platforms aren't belonged to companies)

[WindAtMyBack]

Yea, it doesn't seem like they make much effort to do anything about RMT. But then I don't know how difficult it is. They could make things bound, but a lot of people scream about that.

Personally I don't care. I know a lot of players hate bots and RMT, but it doesn't bother me. It doesn't affect me in any way. People can say it affects the economy. Maybe it does, but if the economy is acceptable to me, I don't really care what goes on in the background.

A lot of people think streamers get special treatment, even better drops. I know for sure in some cases it's true, but I don't care about that either. The only thing that really matters to me is if I like the game as it is. All that other stuff is irrelevant.

I could make several hundred dollars, probably over a thousand if I wanted to bother with it. Heck, I might even be able to make several thousand if it's a game where I could sell a high level character. But the only way I know to do that is to sell an entire account and PW. That seems even more risky than an in game trade. I knew people who have done it with people they already know well, but doing it with a stranger is very risky.

Are there third party sites that have trusted people who will act as a middleman?

[BubbaTech]

Actually the items are not sellable for a lot of games. It is in the tos that you signed upon installing the game software.

[ThinkerShell]

That's exactly the spot where questions come!
Companies make the right for themselves to somehow banish accounts doing it but they let the most of them go while they can easily detect and ban them
Plus to that, why they don't make requests for the court to make it illegal in order to save their billions dollars business? Actually they're OK with this easy peasy account ban job which never stops this market

[1WildBeatlejuice]

What game are you talking about?