Everything you get from tokens comes off as bound, unless it is a mat. I really doubt many people will buy these costumes as it is.

Honestly, this has taken the fun out of finding and collecting all of the bombheads and making it a dramatic, grindy hassle. If I wanted to spend crowns on buying one then let me; it's not like I'm getting any stats from it. I'm sure doing things like making them a bit more common and making them drop at all in team-play (I'm guessing they don't, no one seems to have gotten them at all) will increase the enjoyment factor and reduce the botting and afk-alt issues by a lot. Once the items have circulated a bit I'm sure their value will lower a bit, and hopefully reduce their profitability. Or if this doesn't happen, they could make it that they can't be sold regularly nor bound to a player, but can be sold exclusively in helmet-for-helmet trades. A wide influence on trading with no monetary value will surely fulfill the "Collect them all" and "costume item" feels OOO seems to be trying to give them.

If costumes were unbindable wouldn't people just start complaining about how they spent 20k CE on that unbound rose costume and now it's worth nothing thanks to everyone being able to unbind and selling for a lot less. I recall similar outbursts when the unbind NPC came out.

It is a bit lame that the same players who win BN consistently will be the only ones to get certain masks. You can play several hundred games, but you'd still need to get FIRST place at just the right time in a game that has been bribed. I think there should be some way to get to the secret masks. Although I understand that OOO just wants the rewards to take time... no reason everyone should be able to get every mask within the first month of adding their new content; that'd be bad company-sense.

keep it the way it is..

i want to make some profit...

p.s: ~love mafiaso....muhahha

i'll do some runs with u later on tonight when i done with the exam hahah

i feel

Can I vote against just plain bounding? Kinda late to THIS kind of party, I'm sure...

Too bad Vise got in the game before that would happen, it just gives OOO another reason to keep that mechanic in the air. Actually, too bad bounding happened at all. I thought the distinct rule of bounding items in RPGs and MMOs is in order to stabilize the progress of a plot or sidequests?

This really is a nasty bane to any player when it happens for entirely different purposes. It just seems that it happens all the more these days.

That's not a rule. That's a motive.

I agree Binding bombhead masks that are won from Krogmo bribing is a bad move. This decreases the incentive to bribe Krogmo. The scenario now is

"oh great, we gave up 25 energy for a piece of equipment whose only purpose is to change our appearance. It's also bound to us so we're stuck with a useless piece of equipment while some other person that has an interest in cosmetic apparel cannot even buy it."

With this update, I'd rather see the bombhead masks be removed from Krogmo bribing in place of 150 Krogmo coins (since the purchasable masks cost 150 Krogmo coins).

With the masks that you buy with coins, they're something that ANYONE can get. There's no real requirement beyond grinding the PvP.

With the special masks, they're ones that people have to spend energy for (and just be damn lucky) to get.

Personally, I don't think ANY of them should be bound unless you actually use them yourself.
AND I think that all costume items should be able to be un-bound.

With Wolver Caps for example though, you actually have to make them. You have to get the mats, spend the energy, and craft one.
So they definitely have more value.

The main difference between the Krogmo Coins and regular tokens, is that the coins are not a risk. You pay 200 crowns. That's it.
You're not spending energy to go through the Clockworks looking for them.

So while I don't think anything should be bound unless you equip it, if they ARE going to bind something, they should bind the masks you buy, and not the ones you win.
Does that make more sense?

But when you're sitting on 6 of them... they're kind of wasted.

But a lot of people will never use these masks.
And those that WILL, tend to be the ones who can't seem to ever earn them themselves. So they're more than willing to pay for them.

I think that's fair.
If I win some prize that's useless to me, why shouldn't I be able to trade it to someone who'd actually get use out of it?

Yes Pupu you actually have to play the game now. Just like the rest of the players who acquire the bomb masks.

OOO probably has a reason for this. They want it to be a very rare item, a unique one only you and maybe 2 others will have, that you can brag in your friends faces. Not to go around selling, then the rare Bombhead masks become as rare as a Proto Helm.

Either way, it won't change. Get used to it, pretty much. I know you want to complete your collection of every set, but it just won't happen this time.

People always find some way to find a contradiction or complain... I guess you'll counter this with the same back and forth argument that's going on here, right? :>

Also, I think they might make some costume items drop from enemies, that go into your inventory un-bound...

Since they won't change their decision now, why not suggest that?

Why not add a free, bound bombhead mask of your choice to the battle pack? That would certainly sweeten the deal for me; it might even push me over into buying one!

...it's just a game. Relax. Play.

Three Rings introduces these kinds of things as a reward for success and skill. It's supposed to garner a reaction of "Hey, I won a cool mask, I can show off how good I am at (insert game segment here)!" How mercenary do you have to be to change that reaction to "Hey, I won a cool mask, I'MA SELL IT!" One of my goals when I was playing Puzzle Pirates was to do something well enough to win a familiar. I was thrilled when I got one. (Okay, so I played the "monthly award for paying subscribers" game good enough to win it, but still...) My reaction was definitely not "Hey, I can sell this sucker for 100K and, um... play poker!"

Masks and costume items are meant to be fun additions, not your retirement fund. Enjoy them. Show off that you're talented. There are plenty of other ways to earn in-game coin.

You've played this game less than a month, how do you know how this game worked in the beginning?

I would rather they just be bound. Just like the other things you should have to grind before getting them.

+196. Let them be unbound!

Well Laverna knows how I feel about it since we talked about it a bit earlier before I went to go get dinner.

But honestly, what was the purpose of binding these Bombheads? Was it to keep people from selling your Spiral Bombhead Masks or something? Because that just seems stupid, honestly - it's a free helmet for everyone who plays Blast Network this weekend.

Let's be realistic - changing game mechanics to basically force players to grind the Blast Network is just a bad move. What does it accomplish aside from forcing players to play a game that appears to have more bugs than your average forest? Between constantly running into idlers or constantly running into invisible walls, there's less and less to enjoy with the Blast Network, and making masks bound on acquire is only going to force the people who only want one or two masks to have to grind through countless matches and pray to whoever they might believe in to have the mask show up through a bribe.

Yes, I can understand the concept of bound-upon-acquire being a way to negate idle boosters and such, but honestly? Instead of trying to construct a way to make all bombhead masks "exclusive", you should have found a better way of trying to punish those who exploit the system for the sake of profit. I mean, you banned people entirely for the recipe box error just a few days ago, yet you can't seem to find a feasible way to ban people idling in the Blast Networks?

But I digress.

In the next patch, just make it a feasible task to unbind costume pieces. I wouldn't suggest something outlandish like 6000 crystal energy to unbind a costume piece. Keep it on par with a 5* item, even if it's starless, if only for the sake of further SK inflation - think about it, high energy costs would only drive the energy costs up for newer players, and that's just nasty for everyone involved. Otherwise, you'll eventually start plateauing on the activity of the Blast Network, which in turn is going to make the project appear to be less successful. This way, everyone wins - the people who really want to sell masks can sell them, the people who play legitimately can still sell the spare masks they get, and those who aren't interested in the network but like the appeal of the masks can purchase them for a higher price than it would cost them to acquire it themselves.

In the end, the idea I, along with plenty of others so far, have suggested would play out absolutely no differently than recipes sold by Basil. You can either get it yourself, or pay a higher price for a recipe that someone else has.

And on that note - make the recipes received from Sullivan able to be traded. :| That's just a small nitpick on my part but I shouldn't have to grind Blast Network for hours just to get a Shockburst Brandish (a 3* weapon, mind you) recipe. That's just pants-on-head dumb.