Can you buy sell funcom cash shop currency / premium memberships with ingame gold?

[Monolith]

Just curious about the extent of f2p capability. I know a few games that offer options like this but I don't know if AoC got smart enough with its improvements to offer this kind of thing for players.

[Baron Von Boom]

Nope

[Monolith]

Yea, had a feeling funcom wouldn't be cool enough to do that, TSW as backup it is then lol.

[NavFamG]

Why would they do that? Ingame gold is free - didn't cost you anything (except time) to get and has no real world worth. Store points or membership cost's real money. How would the company ever make money if they 'sold' their services for free?

[Baron Von Boom]

Originally posted by NavFamG:

Why would they do that? Ingame gold is free - didn't cost you anything (except time) to get and has no real world worth. Store points or membership cost's real money. How would the company ever make money if they 'sold' their services for free?

Its meant in the same way that WoW or other games do it, you can buy say a subscription gift for real money & then sell it in game on the auction house / trader for gold.

The company still makes its money & it helps fight gold sellers

[Monolith]

Originally posted by Baron Von Boom:

Originally posted by NavFamG:

Why would they do that? Ingame gold is free - didn't cost you anything (except time) to get and has no real world worth. Store points or membership cost's real money. How would the company ever make money if they 'sold' their services for free?

Its meant in the same way that WoW or other games do it, you can buy say a subscription gift for real money & then sell it in game on the auction house / trader for gold.

The company still makes its money & it helps fight gold sellers

Works pretty decently in EVE / GW2 as well.