Following a report for players buying runes off eBay, another report has confirmed buying runes online for Elden Ring can get you banned.
As covered in our previous report, Elden Ring has no in-game marketplace or anything silly like that so if you want to cheat the game and level up quick with farmed runes, you’ll have to buy them online via a third party like eBay.
Despite this practice being generally discouraged upon by both players and developers themselves, this has been a standard practice for MMOs and related games for numerous years.
As mentioned above – this sort of thing directly goes against the game’s official Terms of Service, so if you’re caught doing this – you’ll likely get your account banned and if you own the game digitally, possibly get your license revoked (you stop owning the game, lol).
Here’s the blurb from FromSoftware’s TOS:
No Player shall be entitled to assign to, transfer to, sell to or buy from another, change the name to another’s name of, or provide another as pledge or other security with, any of his/her rights held as a Player, and items, characters and saved data within the game related to the Software which are obtained in the Services (including so-called “real money trading”).
Again, if you’re caught doing this the Terms of Service you agreed to in order to play the game entitles both publisher and developer “to give such Players warnings,” “delete the Recorded Data of such Players,” and finally “have such Players suspend or cease their use of the Services.”
Why be lazy and spend money on buying runes from complete strangers when you can also cheat yourself and the game by using our rune duplication exploit – read that guide here.
In case you missed it, you can find our thorough and spoiler-free review and video review for Elden Ring here – we also thought it’s excellent and highly recommended!
New to Elden Ring? Learn how to survive the lands between with our Elden Ring guides
- Elden Ring leveling guide – how to spend runes and level up
- Elden Ring keepsake guide – picking the best starter gift
- Elden Ring Brass Shield guide – finding one of the best early shields in the game
Elden Ring is available now across Windows PC (via Steam), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.
