In the MMORPG Tibia Online, it is legal to sell your characters for in-game currency. A player acquired a level 439 Druid for approximately 110 Euros and also received one of the rarest items in the game for free.
What exactly happened? User mathisbynens posted some screenshots on Reddit for Tibia. In them, we can see how a male Elder Druid was acquired for 2,091 Tibia Coins, which is approximately 110 Euros.
However, the new owner found a Mysterious Scroll on this character. This is a very rare item granting access to the coveted mount, Rift Runner.
This Mysterious Scroll is said to be worth around 50,000 Tibia Coins, which is 15 times the actual character value and thus about 1,600 Euros. The new user is said to have already started an auction for sale.
Is the sale legal? Yes, since August 25, it is legal to sell characters in the game. Participation in such a sale costs approximately 2 Euros + 12 % of the sale value. Furthermore, the character must have reached at least level 8 and meet several other requirements to be sold legally.
With this offer, the developers want to prevent them from being sold illegally on eBay or other platforms. Especially in Venezuela, it is popular to sell Tibia content for real money. Some have earned more money than with regular jobs.
An inconspicuous item that many would have overlooked
How could this happen? On Reddit, there are some users who may have made the same mistake. The Mysterious Scroll is an inconspicuous item, and many would have considered it junk.
- For instance, user OverwhelmingNope probably overlooked the item as well: “I can’t blame the seller. I also didn’t know that this item existed.”
- ScrewATT would have just considered it a useless item: “It looks like the useless pages you get in various access quests.”
Whether the item was accidentally on the character or was really sold out of ignorance is not known.
What is the new owner doing? The buyer of the character is said to have created a new character and is now selling it. He has given it the creative name “Mysterious Scrollzeiro” (via Tibia.com).
The level 8 character is currently for sale with a minimum bid of 65,000 Tibia Coins. This would even be more than indicated in the estimate.
The auction is still running until January 30 at 10:00 AM our time. So far, there has been no bid.
Tibia is still a popular MMORPG despite its age, in which players can reach absurdly high levels.
