Guild Wars 2

Please get rid of these annoying designations. There is absolutely no purpose behind them except to frustrate players. This is one of those annoyances that really detract from the game and make it less fun to play. Please stop this.

I’d really like to get rid of soulbound. I don’t mind account bound so much. Like those infinite harvesting tools, they should be bound by the account, not by the soul.

But then they’d lose a lot of their profits (namely via Transmutation).

The system works well in the long-term, just take the hit because if it worked in the short-term, the game wouldn’t work in the long-term.

What exactly would this achieve besides destroying every single equipment market on the TP? Yeah, lets put up hundreds of thousands of used equipment on the TP so prices can come crashing down to the vendor level, that will surely help the market!

Stuff is account bound for a reason, if you don’t know that reason then its obvious that you shouldn’t be making suggestions like these.

I know the reasons they give, but the real reason is simply to annoy the players. This is a game it is not a country or a government. There is nothing wrong with selling used equipment when you are done with it. The purpose of the game is not to become a virtual millionaire it is to have fun. Further, I should be able to transfer and use any item between any character on my account and with any other player. Transmute stones are a perfect example. There are people in our guild who never use them and have stacks of them. There are other people who like to transmute everything. Why shouldn’t those with a surplus of an item they find useless be prevented from selling them for a profit, giving them away, or sharing them with their guild? The answer, so Arenanet can make a few more dollars off the people who want them by forcing them to purchase them with gems. Everything in the game should be allowed to be traded or sold. Now if you are worried about selling those items bought with karma (another stupid idea) then set them up so they can only be sold and paid for with karma, but do not soulbind them. The only real purpose for soul/account binding is to annoy the players.

No, the real reason is not to annoy players, it’s to make the game actually mean something.

Have you ever played a WoW or Maplestory or Ragnarok Online Private Server (not endorsing these) where you’ve access to every item in the game, including the cash shops? They’re fun for the first 30 minutes, then you’re bored because you can do everything unless they add mobs that have max health with 17 health bars and can 2 shot you, so you sit there spamming skills and potions.

It’s not actually fun, it just seems fun for the first little bit since you can play around and do what you want without worrying about anything. Then reality sinks in and you figure out that you aren’t doing anything. There’s nothing to do since you have everything.