You CAN transfer a toon from one account to another

[Philo]

I sent a mail to Disney telling them I was thinking about opening a 2nd account and wanted to transfer my 2nd toon to it. They said (paraphrased):

"Sure, we can do that. We might not always do it, and we might not be able to do it for everyone, so just be aware of it. Send us the 'from' account info, character info and 'to' account info and it shouldn't take more than a few business days."

I made a second account, sent them the info, and true to their word, today I logged in and had my 2nd toon in my second account. Took about 2 business days.

Life is good.

[Whut-Cha]

Oooh. Maybe Whutcha and Spaghetti will play together for the first time!

[MeBear]

Hmmmm.
Ok, now if anybody is interested I will put a maxxed out toon on E-Bay for sale. Sounds like Disney is encouraging this type of activity. Yeah, they said they won't always do it. We will see.
Now...which should I sell?
Where should I start the bidding?

[CBD]

Originally posted by MeBear
Hmmmm.
Ok, now if anybody is interested I will put a maxxed out toon on E-Bay for sale. Sounds like Disney is encouraging this type of activity. Yeah, they said they won't always do it. We will see.
Now...which should I sell?
Where should I start the bidding?

But lets not go to far, we don't wanna lose this ability

[MeBear]

But lets not go to far, we don't wanna lose this ability

I am not going to do this, I am just citing an example of what WILL come if they continue to allow this.

Do a search on E-Bay for "Asheron's Call" or "Everquest" and you will see what is happening. Trust me, it will happen. If not toons then the whole account will be sold.

I agree that this is a nice option to have but it will become abused.

[Fluffy Green]

I don't get it.

Why someone would buy an account for any online game just confuses me. Part of the fun is getting there.

People are dumb.

[Beau]

Originally posted by Fluffy Green
I don't get it.

Why someone would buy an account for any online game just confuses me. Part of the fun is getting there.

People are dumb.

People with more money than time, who want to get to the high-end game quickly, do this. For example, in Dark Age of Camelot, the real fun begins at level 40+ in Realm-vs-Realm PvP. The low end game can be kind of fun, but from level 27-40 can be a real grind. Basically (when I played at least) you sit in one place for HOURS killing the same monsters over and over and over and over. I don't know whose idea of fun that is, but it wasn't mine. The level cap was 50, and I got sick of it and sold my account when my main got to level 43. Got $350.00, too.

Right now there's no real attraction to buy a maxed-out toon, though. There's no high-end game (like Cog HQ). However, if they do make it worthwhile to play as an uber toon, then you can be sure that somebody with a lot of disposable income is going to start a toon, and decide that while he/she likes the game, there's no way they're gonna do thousands of buildings before they can get a peek at the top-end stuff.

That's when the ebay trolling starts.

Edited to add this in: Also, when someone starts playing a game and they want to be able to access the same content as their friends who have already been playing for a while and are way ahead, they'll look at Ebay. For example, say you make six figures a year, but since you work so much, you don't have the time to spend 4+ hours a day to keep up with your online friends in a game. Spending $300 on an account won't make even a tiny dent in your wallet, and it'll enable you to play with your friends. I know a guy in that situation.

Right now a toon can play with anyone no matter their laff level, but if they do require a certain amount of laff to access areas like cog hq, then....

[-rcv-]

I think (hope?) that Toontown would not have as much problem with people buying characters as the other games have.

It seems that most of the high-level character and item sales for the other games is based upon PvP / PK-ing. Since that isn't really much of an issue with Toontown, there shouldn't be many people wanting to buy maxxed-out toons. If you want to PK or Grief other players, you can do that with a 15-Laff noobie.

About the only advantage that a maxxed Toon would have in Griefing would be in getting others to go into buildings with them. A lot of people won't go with a noobie, but would welcome a maxxed-out Toon. Then, the Griefer could proceed to do all the wrong things. It still wouldn't guarantee that the intended victims would get killed, and the Griefer could only get away with it once.

The other potential Grief tactic would be to clear the Districts of buildings, making it difficult or impossible for others to complete tasks. That would be possible on the Test server, with only two districts and a slow rate of building take-overs by Cogs due to the low Toon population. On the main Play servers, however, it would take a whole lot of Griefers working together to make a dent in the overall Cog building density. Even then, the rate of building take-overs would be much too high when there are over 1,000 players online at once.

-rcv-
Kid Bugs

[Loosy Goosy]

I'd like to know how someone can sell an account on eBay, when the TT account is attached to the credit card.

[Beau]

The same way you can with every other online game. When the account is sold, cancel the acct, clear the credit card info, and give the acct name & password to the buyer.

[-rcv-]

Originally posted by Loosy Goosy
I'd like to know how someone can sell an account on eBay, when the TT account is attached to the credit card.

Check the beginning of this thread, dude. :)

The point is that Disney can and has transferred an existing character to a different account.

[Horace]

Selling stuff in those games is forbidden by their license agreements. I know it happens, but it's not supposed to.

Sides, what does one do with a maxxed out toon in Toontown anyway? Wait for the Cog HQ to open?

[Prof_Peppy]

I'll start the bidding with 250 jellybeans.

[Beau]

Selling stuff may not be allowed in the EULA, but it's very, very hard to stop. Savvy Ebay sellers use photo editor to crop out names or any other distinguishing characteristics in the pics they post of their account. They also won't tell anyone who e-mails them the name of the character they're selling. This prevents the game company from laying down a 'sting' by pretending to be a buyer. What DAoC did, for example, is ask E-bay to remove any DAoC auctions (this worked for a while, but apparently Mythic Entertainment gave up policing ebay because the auctions have been back for months). Also, E-bay isn't the only way to sell one's account.

The only real way to stop people from selling accounts is to prevent more than one credit card to be used to pay for an account...ever. However, this can hurt legitimate original users too, if they cancel a card or decide to use a spouse's card. I believe Everquest does this.

[Loosy Goosy]

Originally posted by -rcv-
Check the beginning of this thread, dude.

The point is that Disney can and has transferred an existing character to a different account.

No doubt dude, Disney did this particular transfer. User-to-user, I don't think it can be done in TT.