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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by toyg on Friday October 26, 2018 @06:05PM (#18313032)
It is extremely easy to enforce: just make items non-transferable, so they can only be gained by actual questing. As soon as an item is gained, it is permanently associated to a given account.

Done.

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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by TJSomething on Friday October 26, 2018 @07:43PM (#18313499)
How would you prevent the sale of accounts?
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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by gdfasfklshg4 on Saturday October 27, 2018 @01:15AM (#18314454)
Tie them to a really name and government issued photo id? Please note I hope that this does not happen but that is one logical (very scary) conclusion that regulators may reach when that question is asked.
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Re:A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge ... by netheril96 on Friday October 26, 2018 @11:56PM (#18314273)
It is called soul-bound in WoW.
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