I get that, in the mean time, players have to adapt. But takes a lot of the enjoyment out of the game to have to do that much legwork just to find a group of decent people to play with. Ultimately it is still Cryptic's responsibility to fix this. One of the best solutions is to bind items to anyone who rolls "need" and…
Booting and looting amounts to stealing. It is as if another player reaches into your bank or inventory and simply takes what he wants. This is unacceptable for an MMO. The game is broken until this is fixed. If you want to send Cryptic a message that people stealing items from each other will not be tolerated, stop buying…