Not to mention the hassle that if they did, players who bought multiples would demand compensation.
this is rather specious, if we adhere to this methodology across the board then no items would ever become account bound, in fear of upsetting the rare few who purchased multiples for each character.
generally speaking, the majority playerbase, due to the cost/value of an item, usually do not buy multiples of expensive items for each character unless they can easily afford it, so they could hardly complain that arena net do something to please the majority of poorer players who cannot afford it on all their characters.
(if this statement was untrue, there wouldn’t be so many people asking for it to be account bound)
this is just greed, labelled by rich players and as “fairness” to help maintain their already overflowing wallets.
and yes, there will be a minority of poor players who spend every penny they get getting expensive items on all their alts, but the majority playerbased should hardly be punished for these types of players.
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to conclude:
the outcome of making an expensive item account bound:
poor players = gain (only have to buy one yay!)
rich players = gain (only have to buy one yay!)
rich greedy players = no gain (omg my quarterly reports are gonna look bad..)
changes like this help balance the overall economy.
Progress blocking bugs are top priority, but not all bugs are so easy to fix as others, be cool :)
