Has UV crafting reached the point with interfering with OOO sales? Will we be given notice for when UV items eventually become perma-bound?
Question to Nick about UV items.
How is UV crafting hurting OOO sales? Doesn't it cause more people to burn crowns and energy? Sure, the AH makes it easier to obtain UV items, but UV items aren't as cheap.
Indeed, people who actually can afford high tier UVs actually buy CE with real money.
Then if its good for sales why make 4 and 5 star items bound. The reasoning because rarity is just BS. You can either run the content or buy the plans you need from the AH even easier. Using your reasoning that people will spend to buy the CE they need to get the items they want pretty much makes binding the upper tier items like shooting yourself in the foot from a business perspective. People will still buy CE to get those items. Unless they were afraid once you have gear you would notice that content is severly lacking in the first place.
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pretending people who actually burn ce on crafting would still do so if they couldn't resell the unwanted UVs. Untill it's possible to select the desired UV somehow OOO won't make em bound I'm rather sure.
As for the binding of 4/5* items, that had to be done because not enough people were sinking crowns on recipes (like the only real crownsink at that time)
Drama queen much?