Sharp - you are correct, thank you for pointing this out - I forgot about those points in ToS and stand corrected.
Emmie - no joke. If it wasn't for those points 5 and 6 that Sharp directed my attention to, I really see nothing wrong in someone putting in their time and effort into developing their avatar characteristics and then selling it to a person who wants the benefits of such but does not want to put the effort in.
In reality - those ToS points are put in there to protect the game administration from user complaints about hi-jacked accounts, along the lines of "I gave someone my login and they screwed up my avatar, and now i want everything back" - well, the answer, according to the ToS, would be "well, we told you so, your problem". Which is absolutely right. However, the concept of two consenting adults coming to an agreement on the use of the avatar has nothing inherently wrong with it. Ok, I don't own my avatar. And the person I would potentially allow to use it does not own it, either. The money flows to the game admins, regardless of who uses it. As long as there are no complaints being raised - I see no problems. In fact, were I one of the admins - I would build in a mechanism of legally transferring game property (up to and including the account itself) from one user to another for a fee, of which a certain percentage would be a "tax", for lack of better term, going into the corporate coffers
Emmie - no joke. If it wasn't for those points 5 and 6 that Sharp directed my attention to, I really see nothing wrong in someone putting in their time and effort into developing their avatar characteristics and then selling it to a person who wants the benefits of such but does not want to put the effort in.
In reality - those ToS points are put in there to protect the game administration from user complaints about hi-jacked accounts, along the lines of "I gave someone my login and they screwed up my avatar, and now i want everything back" - well, the answer, according to the ToS, would be "well, we told you so, your problem". Which is absolutely right. However, the concept of two consenting adults coming to an agreement on the use of the avatar has nothing inherently wrong with it. Ok, I don't own my avatar. And the person I would potentially allow to use it does not own it, either. The money flows to the game admins, regardless of who uses it. As long as there are no complaints being raised - I see no problems. In fact, were I one of the admins - I would build in a mechanism of legally transferring game property (up to and including the account itself) from one user to another for a fee, of which a certain percentage would be a "tax", for lack of better term, going into the corporate coffers