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Lock box stuff binding to account for seven days

fleetcaptain5#1134 fleetcaptain5
fleetcaptain5#1134
 Member Posts: 5,051 Arc User
edited September 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Unless you want discourage players from further opening boxes I recommend changing this weird feature that causes stuff from lock boxes to bind to an account for seven days.

It is quite annoying that I'm not able to sell any of the 29 different kinds of items I just received by opening 32 boxes, to the point I might think twice next time about buying keys.
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  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc
    phoenixc#0738
         Member Posts: 5,820 Arc User
    Did you buy them via Steam? I know they "hold" Steam-wallet stuff by binding it until the "check" from Steam clears (steam does not do payments in realtime, they do batches once or twice a week).
  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,655 Arc User
    edited November 2019
    This is to discourage people from (forbidden word) your account and then looting it by selling or trading or gifting the items to other players controlled by or paid by the (forbidden word) -er.

    It's for your own protection. SWTOR did this too when I was playing it a couple of years ago.
  • protoneousprotoneous Member Posts: 3,152 Arc User
    https://support.arcgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018021354-What-is-the-account-probation-period-
  • fleetcaptain5#1134 fleetcaptain5
    fleetcaptain5#1134
         Member Posts: 5,051 Arc User
    phoenixc#0738 wrote: »
    Did you buy them via Steam? I know they "hold" Steam-wallet stuff by binding it until the "check" from Steam clears (steam does not do payments in realtime, they do batches once or twice a week).

    No, I Always buy through Arc.
    protoneous wrote: »
    https://support.arcgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018021354-What-is-the-account-probation-period-

    Seems a bit silly in my case as I've bought Zen dozens of times, and I'm always using the same method, bank account etc.
  • srsfleetarmada#1068 srsfleetarmada
    srsfleetarmada#1068
         Member Posts: 38 Arc User
    If you buy a key with Zen you just bought it becomes account bound for 7 days. Anything you then buy is no longer account bound, e.g. Buy 1st key - account bound, buy 2nd key a few seconds later - no longer account bound. This is what i've found over the last month, I buy with Paypal from the website or debit card from the website, never steam. Not sure why this has started happening, I've spend over £15K on this game over 9 years and never seen it before last month.
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  • kaithan1975kaithan1975 Member Posts: 947 Arc User
    My items are bound for 5 days. It's totally inconsistent how this is done. I bought two Master Key Rings. It stacked them all together with no notice they were bound, yet half my items are bound. As i pointed out in my post, it's totally asinine. What's the point of binding items that are already bound to account?
  • kaithan1975kaithan1975 Member Posts: 947 Arc User
    phoenixc#0738 wrote: »
    Did you buy them via Steam? I know they "hold" Steam-wallet stuff by binding it until the "check" from Steam clears (steam does not do payments in realtime, they do batches once or twice a week).

    It doesn't seem to matter. I don't buy through Steam, never have. This is the first time this has happened. It seems like they're now trying to control the market and that's not acceptable.
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  • sthe91sthe91 Member Posts: 5,953 Arc User
    kaithan1975 wrote: »
    phoenixc#0738 wrote: »
    Did you buy them via Steam? I know they "hold" Steam-wallet stuff by binding it until the "check" from Steam clears (steam does not do payments in realtime, they do batches once or twice a week).

    It doesn't seem to matter. I don't buy through Steam, never have. This is the first time this has happened. It seems like they're now trying to control the market and that's not acceptable.

    Seems like a bug to me in regards to the anti-fraud system and not an attempt to control the market.
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