Guild Wars 2

I was wondering why they are soul bound and not account bound. For instance, the Super Adventure Box baubles and continue coins were account bound, which was great, because then you did not have to spend excessive time building them up on one character, you could use any characters you had, and if you wanted to play a different character, just swap the baubles/ coins out. With the tickets being soul bound, it just feels very labour intensive to get tickets, especially as you have to start over if you want to try a different character on your account.

The reason is because when the tickets were first introduced, ANet rewarded each player on the account with 5 tickets. Some sneaky players realized that by starting new characters, they could obtain new tickets.

It only took a few moments to create and delete new characters, so tickets were easy to get.

ANet, wanting players to spend real money, realized this was a mistake, so instead of simply stopping the emails, they made them soul bound.

So, in ANets eyes it worked because players are now “encouraged” to grind tickets, but for the players it sucks because it doubles, triples, or quadruples the time required to gather tickets, and fight in the ring.

Band-aid fix for a poorly thought out design.