(07-20-2016, 01:54 PM)busyman1 Wrote: Hmmm... if I paid for it - I own it.I do not own the game, but I do own the avatar and login to my account. What difference does it make to the admin who is behind the keyboard?
Wrong. You are subscribing to a service. You can't own a service. There was no purchase, merely a subscription. And it isn't about whether it matters to the devs; what matters is that it is fraud. Selling something you don't own is illegal.
You own literally no part of your account; not the login, not the password, especially not the avatars or any in-game currency or clothes.
If you rent a car, do you own it? No. Can you sell it? No. Treat this in the same way.
A batter analogy is iTunes. You subscribe to that and gain access to the music. You don't own anything though. If you sell the music, that is fraud. If you sell the access to iTunes, that is fraud.
And no matter how petty or minor it may seem, fraud is always a crime. Unless committed by government officials; apparently that's okay~
Also, note what it says in the ToS, mainly points 5 and 6