What would Bind on Account items do to PoE?

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mark1030 wrote:

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Sexcalibure wrote:

I would bind currency to account to force people to barter items for items, like good old diablo 2

Flipper would then be way harder to do which would result in a less inflated economy

You know that another "currency" would surface. My item for x Brittle Emporers.

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AkuTenshiiZero wrote:

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mark1030 wrote:

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Sexcalibure wrote:

I would bind currency to account to force people to barter items for items, like good old diablo 2

Flipper would then be way harder to do which would result in a less inflated economy

You know that another "currency" would surface. My item for x Brittle Emporers.

It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. We'd just have SoJ's all over again.

Anyways, the whole trade vs. self-found thing has always irked me. People love to preach about challenge and difficulty, and yet a trade-focused game is entirely antithetical to that. Like it or not, item binding is necessary for a healthy endgame. It forces people to deck out their character by running dungeons and hunting major bosses, which is a good thing as long as you have enough content for them to run (Which PoE, of course, does not). Sadly, GGG has already painted themselves into a corner on this because they never had a plan for endgame, so making T1 uniques bind-on-pickup would result in a huge backlash from the entitled no-lifers that think they run the show around here.

It all basically comes back to the fact that PoE has no end-game whatsoever.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

The game is what you make of it. If you trade, it's about trading. If you play solo, it's not. What account binding is attempting to accomplish is to make other players play the way you would want them to.

Quit it. Play the game the way you want, and let others play the game the way they want.

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Sexcalibure wrote:

I would bind currency to account to force people to barter items for items, like good old diablo 2

Flipper would then be way harder to do which would result in a less inflated economy

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Phrazz wrote:

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Sexcalibure wrote:

I would bind currency to account to force people to barter items for items, like good old diablo 2

Flipper would then be way harder to do which would result in a less inflated economy

A new currency would appear. Can anyone say "Stone of Jordan"? Or runes?

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Phrazz wrote:

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Sexcalibure wrote:

I would bind currency to account to force people to barter items for items, like good old diablo 2

Flipper would then be way harder to do which would result in a less inflated economy

A new currency would appear. Can anyone say "Stone of Jordan"? Or runes?