Elden Ring gamers have turned to eBay to purchase and sell runes, with some offering millions of the in-game currency in exchange for real money. The Lands Between is the setting for FromSoftware’s newest release, in which players (known as the Tarnished) are charged with collecting pieces of the Elden Ring by battling enemies and levelling up their character.
While Elden Ring initially had several annoying flaws, FromSoftware has now rectified many of them, and the Souls-like action RPG has been well-received by most critics and fans. Elden Ring, like FromSoftware’s earlier games, is loaded with difficult monsters and swarms of opponents to face, requiring players to level up their stats and equip strong equipment in order to live. To do so, players must gather runes, the resource that serves as both gold and experience.
Killing enemies and selling stuff are two methods for collecting runes, but other methods have been developed that make the process much simpler. TagBackTV, a YouTuber, identified a simple way to harvest 100,000 runes in Elden Ring, revealing the path players need travel and the boss-killing approach they should employ to amass a huge stack of runes — roughly 2,000 Runes every iteration. Other Elden Ring rune farming strategies have appeared on the internet, but some players are avoiding them entirely in favour of a simpler path to in-game wealth. Elden Ring gamers are buying and selling runes on eBay for real-world dollars, according to Eurogamer (via GamesRadar).
Sellers are now promoting in-game runes for sale on the web marketplace, ranging from 2,000,000 runes for $14.99 USD to a huge 34.6 million runes for $45 USD. Sellers are offering runes for “Fast Level Up” and “Fast Item Drop,” stating that they’ll invite clients into their world, meet at a prearranged rendezvous location, then drop a pile of Golden Runes for the buyer to collect. Because Elden Ring is not an MMO, the transaction takes several steps and a great deal of confidence. Sellers cannot deposit runes directly into a player’s account. Instead, they summon them into their game via Elden Ring’s co-op mechanisms before completing the swap.
eBay does not presently have a surefire means to verify customers receive their in-game products, so gamers will need to choose a trusted vendor or risk being defrauded, like with other sorts of digital transactions on internet marketplaces. It should also be emphasised that purchasing runes isn’t the easy money it’s made up to be. Defeating enemies and crafting the Elden Ring involves more than just runes; it also necessitates time spent studying the game and its systems, as well as gathering better equipment. Cheating, like cheating in any other game, frequently deprives participants of a meaningful sense of accomplishment.
Despite the fact that Elden Ring’s designer apologised for the game’s difficulties, FromSoftware’s latest RPG is believed to be the most approachable Souls-like game ever, with many paths to success. Purchasing an excessive number of runes may assist speed up the process significantly, but it is unlikely that a player will become the Elden Lord overnight. It’s also been speculated that the rune vendors are utilising an item duplication hack first spotted in Dark Souls 3 to gain unlimited runes, implying that gamers are paying real-world money for something that was previously free and easy to obtain.