Non-tradeable weekly weapons are a good thing
I've seen a lot of people getting mad over this issue, but I think it was the right decision to make.
People like me who only have 2 characters on 1 account have no problem with this, as it barely affects us. When I say people like me, I mean the casual players who don't spend every waking minute farming for a collection of dozens of named weapons. Am I happy about this lock being put in place? No, but I am not against it as I see why it was put in place. Named weapons are rare and are meant to be rare, I think that's where people get it confused. Since some people end events with dozens upon dozens of named weapons from alt farming, they seem to be not as rare, so people feel more entitled to get them more commonly. The people who are getting mad are the people who have abused this for months and caused this to be put in place. So many people I know have several different accounts they use solely for farming 20-40+ weekly contract weapons from these types of events. If 10 people are each given a different rare weapon, then each of those weapons are in demand. If 10 people are given different weapons then 3 of those 10 people find a way to get 20 more rare weapons each, then the demand for those weapons drops quite a bit. I'm sure this post will have lots of different feedback, negative and positive.
I don't have any more luck than the next player, I spent hundreds of hours farming CC like so many others only to end up with just a single named weapon drop(Precious). I didn't have luck from weekly contracts either as I got duplicate cupids arrows(worthless). I use my 2nd character to funnel in an extra named weapon per week from contract like everyone else, and sure that fails a lot too as it often gives a bad weapon. This post and this non-tradeable function are specifically aimed at people who have a dozen+ toons and are long time abusers of alt farming Is alt farming easy? No, it's actually quite time consuming and difficult. Because even if you have 5 different gamertags(xbox), you have to at least have 1 toon on each gamertag above 4k or so ego to reap the rewards of using the claims glitch to get high ego named weapons across all accounts. I am quite shocked to realize that Trion actually allows alt farming as a legal practice. Most every other MMO out their prohibits players from interacting with a main account from alt accounts in order to gain benefits otherwise unavailable.
To the people who are mad over this, you are probably a contributor to this restriction having to be placed. Suck it up and move on. Why is it so hard for people to play the game without abusing and exploiting? Sure Trion has been VERY lenient on people who have abused functions like this, but that doesn't give anyone the go-a-head to abuse it.
So to sum it up. I am not entirely unhappy but I am not as angry about this non-tradeable function being put in place as other players, but people have to understand it was put it for a good reason. To prevent abuse for a few select bad apples who refuse to play the game properly. Many people are saying that this function was put in place to force players hands at buying lockboxes in order to get the named weapons they want, and to a small extent that is probably true. But guess what my lovable peaches, running a game costs money. Since the game went F2P, Trion needs all the money they can get. Was this a smart way to go about making money? Absolutely not. In fact, the last several big decisions made by Trion have had more negative than positive impacts on the Defiance community.
