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UnBinding Option please
doublea2015
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Yes for a Long time now folks like myself and others I hear chatter of this, A option to Unbind items that are bound to your character by paying say like 500 zen or 700 zen, something that makes Arc/Cryptic money on the side and gives customers who have items else where wanting to move them to a new main, this would benefit a lot of players in that manner making it easier for them to get the stuff they need for their new toons by paying a small fee for unbinding items that are sometimes dire needed, Defiantly please consider this.
Example: Right Click on the item brings up current normal menu plus a new option to unbind, when the unbind option is clicked it brings up the zen store and offers unbind token or unbind option right there!!!!
Example: Right Click on the item brings up current normal menu plus a new option to unbind, when the unbind option is clicked it brings up the zen store and offers unbind token or unbind option right there!!!!
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As was said above....they are unlikely to make this change because they believe higher zen, less frequent sales are better than low ler zen, high frequency sales.
In the end, people will buy duplicate items eventually for alts without this, so making this would mean people wont spend as much time in game.
And good luck getting a rollback. That would also have to stop, it would be too easy to use it to dupe items.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream.
You are right this would lower prices in the AH, and probably would make Cryptic a short burst of money. However, lower AD costs means less people buying Zen to convert to AD, meaning less money in the long run. It also means less grinding, which is the bread and butter of the game.
People are also absolutely correct to say that people who steal accounts would have a field day with an unbind token. Use all your AD to unbind items, and then move them to their account to sell on the AH.
Ultimately, this would lower prices through the floor (which people who can't afford the expensive items would probably enjoy for a time). Hackers would have real incentive to hack accounts, selling all that freshly unbound gear on the AH, and then selling the AD on their sites.
Is this a good idea for players with tons of stuff on un-used Alts? Sure. But in the end, Cryptic will look at it as less time spent in game and less grinding, and ultimately less money for them. They won't shoot themselves in the foot like that.
Then, make all other bound gear salvageable. Everything. Unless its a reclaimable item, of course. Basically, if something acquires the "bound" tag it also acquires the "salvageable" tag regardless of item level or rarity.
I think with the new stable system, mounts might be a problem to unbind. What happens if you unbind a mount you are not using, but your active mount is currently using an ability from the one you unbind? It sounds like they should be able to work around that, but it might not be that easy. After all, as far as I know there isn't even a way to delete a mount anymore, is there?
Companions should be doable, though. Again, there may be techincal hurdles. If so, they could at least make them "salvageable" by having the companion vendor in PE buy out their contracts for RAD.
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What I would like to change this suggestion to is, why not make an Unbind Token as some kind of reward? Say as Anniversary give-away or Module release free gifts. That would be a nice gesture to players to give these out every so often.
Something to remove a bound to character binding... I've been suggesting this since I started playing the game years ago.
What sense does it make, particularly when a person actually spends money to buy game currency for them to purchase an item only to have it so quickly made obsolete with leveling or subsequent modifications?
The most memorable - and aggravating instance was after being repeatedly beaten down in Sharandar, investing over $100 to purchase Zen Cards that would allow me to exchange Zen for Astral Diamonds and purchase level 60 Epic gear to allow me to quest in Sharandar without immediately being killed by one shot from the opponents in that area.
It worked so well as a matter of fact that for that year's Christmas I purchased Zen gift cards for my daughter, her husband, my wife and a few of our friends that I had talked into playing Neverwinter. Then for the next couple of birthdays we would all purchase more Zen gift cards because it was a thoughtful and useful portion of the gifts they would receive for their celebrations.
Not only doesn't anyone, including myself, purchase Zen gift cards anymore but of the dozen or so people who were playing Neverwinter only two of us still bother to regularly sign on and I'm the only one who still (somewhat) enjoys playing - but just the normal content as I can no longer play in most of the recently added Mod updated areas, or even most of the areas where I (we) used to be able to play without being so quickly being killed off.
IMO "expensive" is subjective... Some people might find a $16 Runic Bag of Holding "expensive" where some people can afford to drop a couple of hundred on a Hero of the North package and not bat an eye...
But buying something with foreknowledge that the item can be freely traded between characters if needed only to have the ability to trade them taken away after a time is IMO not only detrimental for some who would have consider spending money (or more money) to purchase something but also dishonest.
However that's just my opinion.
On a side note, I wish I could have a dollar for every time I saw someone post they will: "never, ever spend money on the game again"...
I'd not only make back the money I've spent on the game, but would probably make a nice profit to boot.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream.
A player can only equip one artifact of the same type, they cannot transfer, sell or trade a bound to character artifact and even if they have other characters on their account they cannot transfer artifact one of their other characters in the same account... Grrrrrr!
Worthless!
Why not bind more things like this to account so that a player could transfer the item to another character in their account and even if the player doesn't have a character that could use the item, it might encourage them to buy extra character slots to make a new character that can use the bound to account rather than bound to character item.
Getting another identical mount/companion is truly worthless.
Make it cheap as chips. This is the biggest problem with the game and why so many people have left, because people think everyone is made of bloody money and you get so little back for the money you put in.
There is so much I would like to do, but it just costs far to much money for relatively nothing. All this 1000 (£10) zen for blood stones or whatever and yet they give you what 50,000 rp, when artifact weapons are around 4.5 million rp to max out...
I do agree that stuff could be rebinded, but it shouldnt cost £5