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[BUG] Companions can't be unbound
diabeasties
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Basically as the titles states. Idle companions can't be unbound by dragging them to the main item bag. The prompt shows up detailing how many AD is necessary to unbind the pets, but if you confirm the unbinding nothing happens, even if you have the proper amount of AD.
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What is most strange about this though is the complete lack of any feedback from Cryptic. No apology from a Dev for not delivering on their word, no short update from a Mod stating it's being worked on right now, nothing. A huge cash cow just waiting for Cryptic to over-price and milk, but instead we get nothing. Same goes for the Companion Upgrade Books. They could whack $10 on each book and still sell them by the truckload (no, I don't think $10 is a fair price).
Devz??? Mods??? Anyone???
I have tried and I can confirm it too
(Oldish post, but relevant, so still answering this...)
The "monetization" people who lord over the design team at PWE probably realized that you'll make more money on the short term by making people re-buy their favorite companions for each character separately. Also, used pets on the AH would reduce the sales of new ones in the Zen shop. Which is why they aren't commenting on this either. Better "public relations" to just ignore it.
They don't. And they won't, if we as a playerbase don't make enough noise about it. Unfortunately it seems like this issue isn't that important to most people, so things are unlikely to change.
"Nobody" is perhaps a bit too strong a word. Through normal MMO "churn", many people will just quit playing after getting bored, which effectively removes their companions from the market. And many play multiple characters and want to avoid the hassle of switching pets. New pets will get introduced. There will be impulse buys & new players who don't know about the AH yet. Etc. etc. People will still buy companions for Zen, but PWE/Cryptic apparently figures the numbers would drop enough to justify this move.
If I'm not mistaken, unbinding was available in Closed Beta but "broke" in Open Beta. Many threads have been posted about this. Yet, I can't recall a post by a DEV stating if and or when it will be fixed. If one has been posted, sorry, but being able to transfer a companion that I might have spend A.D./Zen/real money for is an important feature that deserves attention, immediately. A feature that worked fine for a while has been broken for months.
If you can't transfer a companion to another character or sell it to make A.D. the player is forced to spend or buy A.D. to get another companion. What possible reason could there be as to why this hasn't been addressed?
I don't know, seems shady that it hasn't been fixed yet.
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Get this F****** sorted ,you money grabbing Cryptic,gits.Grrr
Relax and breathe out lol
Its realy annoying and also confusing for alot of players as you can all clearly see the system is there for unbinding, even the AD cost, but it dont work, and tbh i dont think they will ever 'switch' it on, there more focused, as we see this last patch with releasing more new companions for sale in the Zen shop and there was ghost only a few weeks ago too.
From a players point of view, yes agree, the system should be available realy, BUT as a compromise, the unbinding should be available to those who have bought and paid for companions from the Zen shop at the very least, and companions should be made so they can be given to any other character on the account, after all, that account as already paid out for them in the first place.
Plus people who have purchased them and bound them to a particular character and wish to re roll the character usualy wish to do this due to the class being changed, nerfed etc etc, which is all out of their control, and is PWE's for changing class specs. powers, feats all the time, so the customer should NOT have to pay out for another companion.
Another point here, ALL mounts bought from zen store are ACCOUNT WIDE, Both mounts and companions from Hero, Foundry, Guardian packs are all ACCOUNT WIDE. so why not companions bought with Zen ????? it is totaly unfair.
To add, i have the 'Tiger' mount on my account cost: 3500 Zen, and also 2 x Ioun stone of allure, cost: 2000 Zen each, all paid for from buying the Zen for real money. and i can equipe and use the mount on as many characters as i can make, all can use it. BUT not the stone companion, if i delete a character with a Stone companion, its GONE, 20 dollars , lol, totaly unfair, all should be account wide, this is as one poster quoted 'shady'
The stupid thing is, from their point of view , if the Zen companions were account wide, i am pretty sure they would actually sell alot more in the end
This bug has been here since day one.