WoW Gold for Lindens?

Hi there everyone. I'd like to say first off that I am merely asking at this point as I want to make sure I wouldn't be breaching any rules by doing so.

Is it possible within the SL TOS to exchange World of Warcraft Gold and or Services for Lindens in SL. My Girlfriend and I recently started playing SL and come from a long World of Warcraft backround and are trying to determine if we could use that to our advantage.

Any feedback is much appreciated and I apologize before hand if this isnt an appropriate question >.<.

It would not be against the rules on SL's side, you can exchange Lindens for anything you want.

However you would be breaking WoW's rules. LL will not enforce WoW's rules, but you should still be aware of that.

Hmmm. Yes, I'm aware Blizz wouldn't like it, but Im not to concerned with it as Im not going to try and build an empire on the idea, just make some Ls.

Where would it be appropriate to advertise something like this?

Perhaps the part about it being against WoW's ToS wasn't underlined well enough.

Are you willing to have your WoW account(s) banned over it?

Unless you are into obtaining new WoW accounts repeatedly and have a way to level characters up to where gold farming becomes profitable above that cost, I doubt you'd make enough L$ to make it worth the time and hassle.

there are a few companies/websites that deal in grey market gaming currencies... I don't know any of them offhand but a why not JFGI? both of the big players in direct trading of L$ quit the market after lindex opened (well one was literally tanked by it) so I don't know of any that still do direct conversion anymore.

Im fully aware. Thus why i am merely asking questions at this point.

Thanks for all the feed back so far, everyone.

Anshe appears to exchange Lindens for Entropia Universe PEDs and IMVU credits. Unless her organization obtained special permission to do these exchanges, it would appear that exchanging Lindens for other virtual currencies/credits is not prohibited by Linden Labs. If anyone has information to the contrary, please post the info.

(perks up) Um what server you on in WOW?


And there is nothing wrong with giving someone gold in WOW. If the same person just happens to be giving you lindens in SL. Pretend it's Christmas!

Blizz may have flags set up for large and/or frequent gold currency transfers to accounts that clearly aren't ALTS.

I can't help thinking that this would be risky for you. Is it worth being banned from WoW?

They have very advanced pattern detection in place for transactions that will flag you pretty quickly.

no contrary, LL has stated in the past that L$ are a freely tradeable commodity, I know Entropia has a similar policy, not sure about IMVU, WoW has a specific policy against it (possibly because they view it as one of their main currency sinks) some MMO's have no distinct policy

Most MMO "games" have a policy against RMTs (Real Money Transactions), mainly because it encourages people to ruin the game for everyone through exploitation and farming using mass numbers of automated agents (aka "bots", causing mass inflation in the in-world economy, etc.

That's why many of them have a "shoot first; don't bother to ask questions later" ban policy for people caught exploiting, farming, and doing RMTs.

What I am heavily considering isn't so much the trading of gold, but perhaps legal power leveling. Meaning Instance run throughs and such. I understand and appreciate peoples concern for my WoW account and I do value it and don't plan in putting it at risk. I would make a full time buisness of the power leveling idea I mentioned, but if I for some reason decided to trade gold for Ls it would likely be a one time thing to get us a good starting chunk of Ls to invest and start up with.

I'm not going to give out my WoW info here on the forums, but if someone really wants to contact me or just would like to know where I play feel free to contact me privately.

Power leveling? Like what they sell at this site? http://www.powerlevelings.com/

Am I correct in thinking that you think of SL as a "level" based platform?

So you're basically looking for people to pay you L$ for power-leveling them in WoW?

I think that would require them to have an SL account, too.

If, on the other hand, you are simply looking for some kind of "currency exchange", they are out there, but as you seem to know, you're playing with fire dealing with them.

I can already tell you: don't expect to earn much from it. People generally seem to value their linden dollar in world about as high as their US dollar in real life.
As a result, it'll be hard to get as much as 1000L$ for something simple like doing 3 runs for Van Cleef, which translates into a RL value of only a few dollars. You better enjoy Deathmines to find those 45 minutes spent in WoW worth that 1000L$ (which is a rather high estimate I'd think).

On top of that, there are more people leaving WoW for SL than the other way round these days. Some people went back to WoW to check out the latest expansion, but most of those will come back here again (or already have), seeing how WoW hasn't improved that much with the expansion. Atmosphere and style definitely improved with the last expansion, but gameplay and advancement was basically thrown out the window and replaced with an all too predictable and repetitive experience.

The power leveling I am referring to is in WoW. Not in SL xD.
And as I've said before, Im not expecting to make a solid income out of it, just having the option available. It would be nice if it happens to make me some Ls, if not, oh well. ^^

Ok, then you are thinking of setting up in SL a way for SL folks who play WoW to power level by you "working" their avatar for Linden$? I need to check with my Blood Elf kid for some backfill I guess lol

Edit: CrossPlatform Mercenaries, Inc. [has sort of a nice ring to it]

Ah nm then I can barely level my own toons without wanting to smash my face in the keyboard. Never mind run someone else through a bunch of instances. Good luck.

I tried levelling up in SL but those Lindens are hard to beat.