Okay in the last update, 4 and 5 star items became untradeable.
In that same update, they added the Auction House, where you can trade everything else to make them yourself.
At a slightly inflated (or over inflated) price.
With the exception of Sealed Swords and Antiguas, which you now need to excessively grind for.
Then they brought up the cost to craft as well, by taking off a few thousand Crowns off recipe prices and sticking it onto the CE pricetag.
Now, with all of that in mind, for somebody to buy their way to Tier 3 is a bit more complicated and a lot more expensive.
But even if you gathered the materials yourself and paid the base price for recipes, the overall cost is pretty similar, give or take a few thousand crowns.
Though, even with all those items and with all that CE, you still need heat to craft.
Now, if only they released an overpriced item they could charge me a premium for, to get to Tier 3 with slightly less hassle...
Oh, here they are! Heat amplifiers!
Thank goodness you guys brought these out, or I'd have nothing to spend my disposable income on!
Can you see the pattern here?
Can you see what Market Analysts are doing to this game?
Free players just serve to fund the paying players with materials and recipes, the paying players just serve to fund the free players with their CE.
By playing for free, all you're doing is making it easier for paying players.
And they're going to try and turn you into paying players, by letting you pay exorbitant unbinding fees to sell 4 and 5 star equipment again.
It's ridiculous.
And more importantly, it's your own fault.
For thinking you could get away with powerleveling people into Tier 3 without them cashing in on it.
All these updates that are pissing you off? You brought them on yourselves.
You ruined the thing you 'love'.
And that's it.
doesn't mean you must use them.