CrzyHawk posted:
This. Devs fail on this one. There's just no reason to make them no trade.
The reasons could be
A) Incentivise non-subbed players to resub this week, instead of in a few weeks time, thus making the quarterly figures look better to the EAOverlordz.
B) Create a 'hunger' for the items amoung players who are already subbed, players will err on the side of caution and buy them now on as many chars as they can afford, especially if they think it may be months and months before they are offered again and 'may' want to use them in the future. There's no point in creating items that act as a plat sink to drain money out of the economy if they end up being resold for even more plat in a month's time and players/gold farmers PvE more, pumping even more plat into an already saturated economy to meet the demand.
Having said all that, The only reason I can think of from a player PoV is that they are deliciously overpowered, especially in the BG's, getting healed for 260 (on Hib with relics) in Molvik as a stealther is just too much.
In your tardy faces!!! guys who didn't resub last week and are planning to play again in a few weeks.
- glinda3102