Non-tradeable weekly weapons are a good thing

[Horror Stories]

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.

[Alastar]

The problem I have (yes I'm one of the people who disagrees with this move and has not made numerous characters to farm) is that they're effectively cutting off the supply and people are likely going to use that an excuse to drive up ridiculous prices even higher than before. Never mind that regardless of what they say it LOOKS a lot like an attempt to drive people into the store to waste money on boxes. They certainly aren't doing it to make sure everyone has a better chance to get what they want. Also for people saying that everyone who abused it was just doing it to gouge people for every scrip they could well that's not true. Certainly there were many doing that, that's part of the ever so glorious player market. But many people were doing it so they could get stuff people wanted to them at reasonable prices (even better for clannies and friends.) Make of that what you will that's my 217cents on the subject

[Ray8888]

There are already TWO threads about this. Both still on the first page. Why not just contribute to one of the active discussions?

[KILLSHOT707]

So, farming is an exploit?

[TriGlav 2000]

If you can buy extra character slots, it means that everyone who bought them, is abusing the system?

[konstantinov]

I honestly don't mind the weekly presents being account locked. The prices of the original named weapons will go through the roof as well as the mk2 versions from arkfalls and bit store boxes. It's an excellent marketing strategy by Trion and bit sales will be higher than ever.

[Alastar]

Only if enough people drink the bit store gamble koolaide. But let's be honest They will. Lol

[TNO]

People like me who only have 2 characters on 1 account have no problem with this, as it barely affects us.

I disagree, I think this will affect you the most as your chances are slim to ever get your dream named weapon.

[TNO]

It's an excellent marketing strategy by Trion and bit sales will be higher than ever.

This exactly. I am amazed that some people think this change has anything to do with the ingame economy

[Holy Bahamut3]

The problem I have (yes I'm one of the people who disagrees with this move and has not made numerous characters to farm) is that they're effectively cutting off the supply and people are likely going to use that an excuse to drive up ridiculous prices even higher than before. Never mind that regardless of what they say it LOOKS a lot like an attempt to drive people into the store to waste money on boxes. They certainly aren't doing it to make sure everyone has a better chance to get what they want. Also for people saying that everyone who abused it was just doing it to gouge people for every scrip they could well that's not true. Certainly there were many doing that, that's part of the ever so glorious player market. But many people were doing it so they could get stuff people wanted to them at reasonable prices (even better for clannies and friends.) Make of that what you will that's my 217cents on the subject

^This pretty much. People in my clan getting duplicates were the reason I have all but one of the heartbreaker weapons. They charged reasonable prices for them, one I got for free :-).

Peoples opinions will vary depending on platform, clan, and friends. Don't call everyone that has a varying opinion an exploiter, its just bad policy...