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Don't know if I omitted it by accident, or if it's being misunderstood on mine and OP's point but: you only do it once.
It's not shuffling around left and right like mad, it's literally only once, you can chose to switch permanently to another character and that's it. That's my view of it, and also as far as I understand, OP's view on it too. You get only one chance to get rid of a dead alt that you thought you were gonna like but not (or got tired of).
Maybe it was badly phrased on my comment, but you're not getting more of the same, much less sharing with anyone, just swapping for yourself. You just change from one to another, and only once. You don't get an unbound tradable free to use costume, it's just "liberated" once and that's it. You'll still need as much copies as characters you intend to use it on, and no one else but you can use that costume, it's just about what character will use it next.
Say you do have one character that you thought you were gonna like but it just wasn't it later on, or got tired of it, then you can change it to another character and then it's again, bound to that new character. Nothing was added, neither you get the chance to swap back again.
The buying it again with gold or EMP doesn't make a difference in EME's eyes unless they added it to the game via events. Otherwise if you're buying it, you're paying for EMP indirectly. And like above, you'll still need more of it for more characters to use it. If you had one copy only on your Elin Slayer but got tired of it, you can swap it to your Elin Gunner for example, but your Elin Priest will require one more.
....tried to understand but I give up.
Also if they do it my way and just add some item that you can use OR NOT, then it wouldn't change anything. You can just not unbind it.
Pardon me for not playing the same character for more than 3 years , i changed mains a lot to see what i was more comfortable to play with , i've tried using tickets but that doesn't work. My mistake huh
I see , that is indeed something that could possibly happen , but still i don't see how changing race costumes would be a problem , yes they would get a lot of work to do on that specific day , but after that everything would go back to normal. But what you said about BhS is true , that's more like it would happen , since BHS only cares about profit. But what if , just what if , EME doesn't need BHS approval for this , do you believe it would cause more harm than good to its players? i get everyones points here , but as i mentioned since you would not be able to trade them i don't see it as something harmfull to the market itself or the community.
Well, it's not really a question of approval, it's a question of programming. There's no actual way to do this. If you're suggesting that, as a sort of one-day amnesty, everyone would be allowed to send in support tickets to request any rebinds they want... that's not feasible.
It would take weeks and weeks to manually process all these requests one-by-one. They'd probably have to bring on temporary staff just to do this, because the other requests wouldn't stop coming as well. It's not realistic. Not unless there were some sort of way to automate the process somehow, and even then -- the cost to develop that automation would have to be recovered somehow.
(The fact they even do costume rebinds at all upon race change is more than any other market for TERA does. In all other markets, you'd just have to buy your costumes again for your new race, or pay again to change races back.)
The underlying point is still: they want you to buy costumes for your alts. Since people don't buy expansions and aren't required to pay subscriptions, this is one of their primary revenue streams. So it's unlikely that they'll spend their own time/money to do something that makes it less likely for people to give them money -- it's losing money twice.
Example
- i have dead ninja alt
- ninja has dyable jeans and jacket
- i'd prefer the costume on my lancer
- with the unbound untradable day i move costume to my lancer
- my ninja is naked
Now... if they one day unbound didnt happen, i would have to buy a jeans and jacket costume of the brooker or w/e, now ask yourself, where did this costume come from... L-O-O-T-B-O-X-E-S
So.. because i swapped the costume from my dead ninja to my lancer i dont have to buy another costume, so there is less demand for the item meaning less is sold on brooker and thru lootboxes..
This is how eme loose out
Simple solution to this problem is to have lib scrolls remove the soulbound from all items (gear, acc, brooches, inner, costumes) but only once, this way eme get profit, we get our costumes and can delete old dead toons (this way still loose eme money thou as lib scrolls are cheaper then the amount of lootboxes you need for some costumes like jeans jacket, airy auroa, raincoats etc)
If you cant see how eme loose profit after this then idk how to help you
Or make liberation scrolls usable for costumes also.
I would be more than happy to pay to unbound some costumes from certain characters that I have.
For mounts would be even harder because they are bound on your character like a skill not like an item.
It would be interesting though to have account bound costumes because i would love for example to put my 2017 maid costume on my elin from my human and my frostsilk from my elin on my human changing them every few weeks.. though i also have to say that they are no longer as expensive as they used to be so my alts are more or less done with the fashion