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Enchanted Keys becoming Bind on Account
amenar
Member, NW_CrypticDev Posts: 90 Arc User
Greetings Adventurers,
Recently, there has been an alarming amount of reported issues surrounding Enchanted Keys. This has taken the form of people’s accounts getting hacked or stolen after buying keys from a 3rd party site, people spending money on 3rd party sites and not receiving their keys, and many other situations that negatively impact a player’s experience in Neverwinter.
In an effort to diminish the effectiveness of these individuals’ efforts, we have made a large but necessary change, to make Enchanted Keys Bind on Account. This change will be retroactive, meaning this will affect all keys in Neverwinter regardless of when they’ve been purchased. This is done to ensure that nefarious individuals will no longer be able to scam players using Enchanted Keys as bait.
Moving forward, keys will automatically bind to a player’s account when they have been purchased from the Zen Market. We also have a plan for keys contained within in communal areas like Guild Banks or the Auction house. Keys stored in Guild Banks will Bind to the account of the player that withdraws them. Keys currently for sale in the auction house will bind to the account of the player who purchases them.
We realize that this change may be seen as drastic, but know that we do it with the intention of protecting the safety and well-being of our players.
Thanks all,
-Chris Matz, Lead Designer
Recently, there has been an alarming amount of reported issues surrounding Enchanted Keys. This has taken the form of people’s accounts getting hacked or stolen after buying keys from a 3rd party site, people spending money on 3rd party sites and not receiving their keys, and many other situations that negatively impact a player’s experience in Neverwinter.
In an effort to diminish the effectiveness of these individuals’ efforts, we have made a large but necessary change, to make Enchanted Keys Bind on Account. This change will be retroactive, meaning this will affect all keys in Neverwinter regardless of when they’ve been purchased. This is done to ensure that nefarious individuals will no longer be able to scam players using Enchanted Keys as bait.
Moving forward, keys will automatically bind to a player’s account when they have been purchased from the Zen Market. We also have a plan for keys contained within in communal areas like Guild Banks or the Auction house. Keys stored in Guild Banks will Bind to the account of the player that withdraws them. Keys currently for sale in the auction house will bind to the account of the player who purchases them.
We realize that this change may be seen as drastic, but know that we do it with the intention of protecting the safety and well-being of our players.
Thanks all,
-Chris Matz, Lead Designer
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Warn people clearly about the dangers of using a 3rd party site, let them suffer the consequences if they choose to ignore the warning... not the broader gaming population.
PROPOSAL
Give keys purchased for Zen a "trade cap" of 1. Once they switch accounts once, reduce the trade cap to 0 and keep them bound on that account. That would allow for key splits, but would require that the traded key have come directly from the Zen market. Credit: Overheard in NW_Legit_Community.
FURTHER CONCERN
If keys remained locked down (forgive the pun), another surrogate currency will just spring up to take its place. You need to solve the actual problem, not treat the symptoms. Third party sites already offer everything from R10 enchantments to Hero of the North packs. One of the many other traded items will become the new surrogate.
Sci-fi author: The Gods We Make, The Gods We Seek, and Ji-min
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Yes all good and well that you have made it more safe for the users side and i see that hacked accounts can make allot of stress on the GM community *** well but to make all the key's bound will make the whole game trading system unbalanced and thus the game trade will completely fail. You have already made a huge difference to beginner people with making coalescent wards and other wards bound but with this change the whole trade system will fail totally. Good and well you are making all the accounts safer but the trade system will fall and plummet and at the rate of these drastic changes you are making this game more of Buy to play rather than free to play this game is nice because it has allow of features that other online games dont have but Neverwitner is moving Into a Buy to play State and this will make by my calculation a loss of about 80% of all your Clients but its is not up to me this is only my opinion on the games state Now
If people are using a 3rd party website to purchase goods for the game, outside of the game....and you are setting up measures to "protect" them...i don't know what to say, totally speechless.
Except, they didn't make anything safer. Those 3rd party sites still can sell plenty of items. Everything that is tradable actually.
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As always players get screwed in an attempt to make 3rd party sites less efficient, the nodes efficiency cap did not work what makes you think this will work? They don't care if they are less efficient as long as one player buys 1 item or currency from them it's a profit. They will just open the boxes themselves and sell the content. Unless you make everything BoA or BoP they will not go away.
I really really hope it can fix the ZaX exchange though. But I don't see what prevents them to stat using another random item as a new pseudo currency.
This won't fix the zax. If anything it will hurt it further.
They should make all items from the zen store BoA.
I do not think this is good, but making keys BoA only makes sense if the same happens to all zen items.
BTW It doesn't really bother me one way or another. I have a bunch of Keys (which I had no intention of selling) and a bunch of Zen and AD. And as it stands right now, I pretty much only log in, invoke, run dread ring hoping for Eye of lathander, log out in disgust when I dont get it, and log in and play a different game.
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My guild has 710 Enchanted Keys in the guild bank that are used as rewards during guild events. This change his horrible beyond belief, and will not solve anything. Instead of Enchanted Keys, it will be R7 enchants or something similar next week. Will those also become BoP?
Sci-fi author: The Gods We Make, The Gods We Seek, and Ji-min
Which is a symptom, not a cause. The real cause is the lack of AD sinks, like, you know, reasonable priced cool stuff you could buy with AD.
You can't blame people for not wasting money (and currently selling Zen via ZAX is a waste).
Also, making everyting BoA will kill trade and therefore the whole game.
I'm not saying it is not, however, what you say is also "only" your point of view.
There other factors that decide if a game can survive too, but let's be honest, NW could do better with, like, the every aspect of the game. For example, foundry - the coolest and most unique feature you have here is more neglected than both DC and GF classes combined.
I give them that there might be technical difficulties to only make future keys BtA or maybe the problem was already that much out of hand (like accounts with a key-count north of 100k+) that they thought there was no alternative.
But from where I stand passing on the retroactive change would have achieved the same thing, just with a delay. Totally uncalled for.