On Selling Accounts/Characters   
from Mark Jacobs    
2002-03-19 14:14:22    

Why did we make the change to the Rules of Conduct regarding sales of Accounts?

Folks,

As many of you know Mythic Entertainment and Dark Age of Camelot are the
target of a lawsuit by Blacksnow Interactive. As to why we are being sued,
what it boils down to is that a certain group of individuals want to make
money by engaging in behavior that we have specifically prohibited in our
game's EULA/RoC. While this lawsuit is ongoing, on the advice of counsel,
we have altered the RoC to match the EULA's prohibition the sale of all DAoC
related-items, including accounts. It has been our policy to not take
action against those wishing to sell entire accounts, only those attempting
to sell items outside of the game. Mythic is concerned that people may
have used and may be continuing to use methods that violate the EULA/RoC
in order to build up characters to sell, we have no choice at this point
but to enforce the stated prohibition in the EULA against the sale of
characters (i.e. accounts) until these matters are resolved. We will not
hamper or interfere with any sales of accounts of players who have opened
accounts prior to this change to the RoC. Additionally, it is my hope that
when these issues are resolved, we will be able to endorse and welcome the
sale of accounts.

I am truly sorry that we have had to do this, but the actions of certain
individuals and groups have left us no choice at the present time. We will
not allow anyone to harm our game, the community and our world. However, in
order to do this we will have to take certain actions that may run counter
to what we had originally hoped we could do. Once again I am truly sorry
that we have had to do this but we are under attack by those who care
nothing for our work and effort in creating DAoC unless it happens to
coincide with their personal and/or business agendas. We will not stand by
and do nothing and we hope that as a community you will support our attempts
to protect our world.

Mark Jacobs
President
Mythic Entertainment