You most likely should not attempt to purchase or promote Elden Ring runes on Ebay, however in case you are questioning, that could be a factor now. A fast search on Ebay reveals dozens of listings providing thousands and thousands of runes for anyplace from $10 to $25, with some listings promoting a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of runes for a number of hundred {dollars}. To date, it appears to be like like a number of hundred listings have offered by means of.
Since there is not any option to straight ship runes (the foreign money gamers use to degree up) from one account to a different in Elden Ring, these grey market offers are taking place like a traditional MMO merchandise swap. The vendor units a time and a spot, summons the customer into their world as a co-op associate, drops the agreed-upon variety of runes on the bottom for the customer to select up, and the 2 half methods.
No less than, that is the way it’s presupposed to go down. Whereas a few of these gross sales appear to be going by means of as meant (Eurogamer‘s Ed Nightingale purchased some runes himself so we would not should), the entire thing might be a nasty concept.
For one, you might be losing your time with a rip-off, nevertheless it’s additionally price noting that (per IGN) shopping for or promoting gadgets with actual cash violates Elden Ring’s Terms of Service. Gamers who take part in these illicit trades depart themselves open to FromSoftware wiping their runes pockets remotely, suspending their account, and even getting banned.
Then there’s the truth that the tactic these Ebay distributors are utilizing to accrue piles of runes is not rocket science. They appear to be exploiting an merchandise duplication bug involving co-op that has been round since Darkish Souls 3. If you happen to’re lifeless set on boosting your Power all the way in which to 99, there are smarter methods than sending $15 to some rando on Ebay (and in the event you’re taking part in on PC, Elden Ring cheats exist already totally free, as long as you keep offline).
Even when I did wish to purchase some secondhand runes, I feel one million can be method too many. It might be good to spice up my Dexterity stat a number of notches so I can lastly use a few of my cooler weapons, however I am getting loads of runes simply by taking part in the sport.
