08-12-2009, 12:17 PM
Might be an interesting idea for an Ebay-type site.
Input:
* The character (or account) you want to swap
* The criteria you want to meet ("similar character type" / "similar time investment")
* The game you want to move to
Output:
* A character (or account) for sale in that game which meets your criteria
It would basically be a site to facilitate ebay style character trades, but customized for gaming in that it has translation tables to help you match what you have with what you want, without you necessarily knowing about the destination game. If you're selling a WOW magical ranged class with epic loot geared for DPS, it knows enough about other games to help you find a similar character to do a swap with -- another magical ranged class with epic loot geared for DPS from WAR, LOTRO, EQ2, etc.
That would be a feasible proposition, especially if you could rip off the existing online item databases and had enough understanding of the games to come up with formulas for equating one game stat to another.
Plus it would require no interaction from the game companies.
Of course we might have to run it out of Somalia or something as we would be helping people violate their EULAs and they'd probably try to shut us down...
An actual transfer from one game to the next would require companies to cooperate and let this hub manufacture characters on their server, which isn't really in their best interest. They WANT new players to start at level 1 because otherwise they get to bypass 95% of the content (even though that's precisely what a lot of new players want to do).
Input:
* The character (or account) you want to swap
* The criteria you want to meet ("similar character type" / "similar time investment")
* The game you want to move to
Output:
* A character (or account) for sale in that game which meets your criteria
It would basically be a site to facilitate ebay style character trades, but customized for gaming in that it has translation tables to help you match what you have with what you want, without you necessarily knowing about the destination game. If you're selling a WOW magical ranged class with epic loot geared for DPS, it knows enough about other games to help you find a similar character to do a swap with -- another magical ranged class with epic loot geared for DPS from WAR, LOTRO, EQ2, etc.
That would be a feasible proposition, especially if you could rip off the existing online item databases and had enough understanding of the games to come up with formulas for equating one game stat to another.
Plus it would require no interaction from the game companies.
Of course we might have to run it out of Somalia or something as we would be helping people violate their EULAs and they'd probably try to shut us down...
An actual transfer from one game to the next would require companies to cooperate and let this hub manufacture characters on their server, which isn't really in their best interest. They WANT new players to start at level 1 because otherwise they get to bypass 95% of the content (even though that's precisely what a lot of new players want to do).