Elden Ring players can buy an in-game currency boost for real-world money, but doing so could also come with a ban.
FromSoftware’s Elden Ring uses an experience system seen in all of FromSoftware’s Souls-like games, as each enemy you defeat drops currency players spend to level up and on items. In Elden Ring, these are called runes. However, any death causes all runes to be dropped at the location the player was felled.
Now those runes are being sold for real money on eBay. Players can purchase the runes in the millions, then head to the seller’s in-game world to collect. Eurogamer tested the service and came away with 2million runes for the cost of £11. However, there is a chance that any sale could be a scam.
Eurogamer also found that spending the runes gained them a lot of levels but didn’t help them make progress as their weapons and armour were still massively underdeveloped, and didn’t have good scaling for the newly boosted stats. They also reached a point where they could’t afford another level but still had many runes left over that could be lost at any time.
