Please, this IS NOT a thread to see how much someone should charge to sell their account. I was talking with some friends about this, and we came up with a very wide range of value that we'd put on our accounts. For me, my account is nearly priceless, and I would never sell it even if it were allowed. So please, no trolling, I'm just asking to see how much people think all their time and effort into all their toons would be worth to them in cold hard cash.
That kind of depends on context. Are we talking 'how much would you be willing to sell your account for?' or 'if your account were held hostage, how much would you be willing to pay to get it back?'. In the first case the equivalent of $200 for ESO Gold, maybe $300. In the second situation... the price of an average new game probably $40-60.
What is meant is actually "how attached are you to your characters" - it is not about a forbidden practice, but more like I said. In EVE online it is allowed to sell characters, not an account though. A character can be transferred to another account for 2 PLEX service fee, that CCP will perform the transfer - I have 11 characters, and play just 6 currently - I could sell 5 of them, but I never will - I am attached to them.
I wouldn't say priceless at all, but we're definitely looking at $50,000 minimum before I'd even consider it (my account is bound to my Xbox Live account of course, so that would include the value of my entire Xbox Account, which has years of effort put into it that I wouldn't throw away for anything less than a life-altering payday).
Thank you guys for replying. And thank you ZOS for not closing this thread. It was on the line of what is acceptable I suppose, but my intention was not to encourage a banned activity, but to find out how much people think their time and effort into ESO is worth to them. And, as I figured, roughly 2/3rds of people wouldn't part with their toons even if selling Elder Scrolls Online Gold their account were allowed. I don't know what my price is exactly, but it's WAY higher than anyone would ever pay. I suspect anyone with more than a couple vet level toons feels the same way.
Really love the game but if my account were to disappear tomorrow, I would be sad but would try to find another MMO to play. If I were hacked, I of course would try to retrieve it through customer service. I'm actually getting back into single player games and am enjoying the heck out of Fallout 4 and will purchase No Man's Sky when it launches. Realized that in my MMO focus over the years, I've been neglecting some fine games out there. Played a Walking Dead game a year or so ago and really loved the story and emotional impact.
