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Like it or not, Cabal Alz buying, selling, and power-leveling have become rather lucrative businesses, particularly with the stratospheric rise in popularity of the MMORPG.
So what is gold selling?
Gold selling is the practice of selling in-game items and currency to players in exchange for real world money. Sound strange? It sort of is, the idea of paying real money for virtual currency might seem odd to those unfamiliar with MMORPG culture, but companies like IGE and other gold trading organizations make a tidy profit from this business, so there's definitely a market for it.
Legality:
Perhaps the first issue that springs to mind is the question of the legality of it all. Many video game companies claim that all virtual items (your character, your equipment, and even your gold) are their property.
As such, a gold seller has no right to sell what isn't theirs. Fair enough or is it? Are developer EULA's too draconian in their thinking? After all, you have paid for the game are most likely still paying for the game, shouldn't your equipment, character and gold belong to you?
It could be argued that gold sellers are not selling the gold itself, but are getting paid for simply transferring in-game gold from one player to another as well as for the time it took them to get the gold.
Either way, it's safe to say that gold selling exist smack dab in the middle of one of those nu-age legal gray areas the internet saw fit to leave us with when she blessed us with the gift of new media. Judges, philosophers and lawyers are going to be arguing this one till they're blue in the face.