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Why haven't we got a way to unbind Cosmetic items yet?
Why haven't we implemented a way to unbind Cosmetic items yet? Haven't players been asking for this since 2012? What am I missing?
Just came back after 4 years of real life and it seems ludicrous that this simple feature hasn't been added to the game yet.
Your thoughts?
Just came back after 4 years of real life and it seems ludicrous that this simple feature hasn't been added to the game yet.
Your thoughts?
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A one time use for those who regreted binding a cosmetic on a character, cases like leaving the game for some months and coming back to see new classes with more cute animations, looks and not being able to unbound because politics is a little bit annoying.
I think if liberation scroll worked on cosmetics as it works on +7 then EME may make a good amount of profits.
This....Simple put, it's more money for them for people to buy new costumes than to liberate old outfits they won't want/use/want to move around. you want that fancy outfit on all your characters? better cough up the money
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I don't see Hello Kitty loot boxes on cash shop, I don't see loot boxes to get Chamber Maid or Parlor Maid, I don't see loot boxes to get Castanica costumes, I don't see dyable Arin's costume on cash shop, so how are they going to earn more money from them?
If you really think about it, they are already losing money becuase of that, mean while a liberation scroll for costumes could give them profits when those costumes are not giving them any money becuase they are not in the store anymore.
Hello Kitty aside (which is a special licensing situation), artificial strategy is a tried-and-true retail strategy. They're building up pent-up demand, so that when it comes back for a sale a) people who want them will buy them (increasing their sales in that specific period when they want it), and b) other people will buy them on speculation that the gold value will go up again. And actually, this is exactly why a cosmetic liberation scroll is difficult to price. The fact that people could introduce new supply at any time would lower the demand for the items when they return (especially since the times when EME is likely to reintroduce cosmetics aren't a surprise).
Anyway, I'm not saying they shouldn't do this, because I think they should, but my guess is that it would be more expensive than people would like so that it's only used for "exceptions" and not as a general-purpose way to move cosmetics between alts. (If they wanted to make it so that you could generally move items between alts without a huge expense, they'd probably have to rework their whole pricing strategy.)
Question time: ARE you gonna buy the same costume twice anyway? Or would you pay 66% of the bundle price, to still have only one costume?
I at least see the costume unbinding as just unbinding from your character, but untradeable (just bankable), so you can only swap it to another character, and it binds to this one, so no "it will break economy" crap here, before the topic arises.
If people won't otherwise build another stupid heap of lootboxes for the same costume again, then they would not earn that money at all to begin with, but could earn it with the liberation scroll.
Besides if price is the same as that gear liberation one, it makes no sense to liberate stuff you have in stores now, or even stuff that may come back soon that costs the classic 1495 EMP as you can keep 2 copies for almost the same price of one transfer.
The deal about not being able to do it seems closer to the artificial demand control as pointed above by Counterpoint. Profits wise, they can easily earn enough from them if the unbound costume is untradeable, since it won't create any extra copies on the account or on the market, if you have 2~3 characters you play all the time and love that costume, you gotta buy another one regardless.
They lose more money using support to rebind costumes when someone uses a race change voucher and to make it worst, that service only makes support to pile up more issues to be attended making them take more time to fix more legit issues.
https://forums.enmasse.com/tera/discussion/20869/liberation-scrolls-for-cosmetics/p1
I already put my thoughts about that on that other thread.
2) Inflation control. Binding items to the character/account is a good way to control trading bots and market inflation......thats why they literally character bind almost every single item of value you get in this game.