Should they add Veteran rewards to the store for us to buy?
I have 3 accounts and I need new ethereal mounts, alchemy station, writing desk, sheds, teleport tiles and much more! My main shard never has any of these items for sale plus I don't really like paying in game gold for said items, plus it would help them make a bit extra £$
Obviously the account would need to be of age to buy these items as to not flood the market, but what could hurt?
Adding this to store would diminish the value of old-timey accounts where people have saved up for years and loyaly played. It's quite unfair to those who kept their points for years, or only picked one every 4-5 years.
No I dont think this should be added.
However, what they should do is add a separate line of item to the store that can be bought. Windrunner is a good option as a pet.
I think this is a bad idea, so No. This is a form of income for some players coming back or needing gold and doing this will pretty much crash that market by flooding it
So, for example - My next reward choice is 8 months away, Europa has Zero Alchemy stations or house tele tiles for sale and there has been none for sale for the last 5 weeks, I need both them items and I have to wait 8 months to choose.
I understand where you guys are coming from and it is just a opinion but we're not exactly over populated with enough players to buy these items in game. In fact I cant even remember the last time I seen a 10+ year vet reward for sale.
No to buying them, that kills the whole point honestly. I wouldn’t be against a trade in system. Or even changing the values. Like for instance a first year statue shouldn’t be costing as much as a 18th year reward. Why would anyone pick that? You can buy them for 200k! Or even more rewards per year. Or rewards moratoriums. Like every 5 years earlier rewards cost 1/2 or are even free. So if your year 6, you can choose all first year rewards one time for free, then after they cost regular. I don’t know I’m just spit balling ideas. On a different note I don’t think the statues should even be rewards. They should of been 1:1000 drops from the Mobs they are of with different hue variations. Would keep you in game collecting that full set. It would of been much easier to add hundreds of different variations. Some people actually enjoy collecting quite a lot.
I am at the point where anything and everything should be for sale in the Store.
Veteran Rewards are sold in vendors consistently.
If Vets are already willing to part with their rewards for in-game gold, I doubt the validity of any supposed threat to the veteran aspect of their veteran account.
If Vet rewards are so sacred, they should be non-negotiable, non-tradeable, etc.
Further, I think it is a great idea to make available things to people who never had a chance to play the game long enough to acquire these things.
Being able to buy back lost months up to the account creation date is a far better solution than all the rest
I imagine adding the account age feature to the store would take like another 3 years to pull off 🙂
Easiest way to implement this would be to sell “reward picks” that would be added to your account. This would keep the “old enough to claim” restrictions in place while leaving the actual selection and generation of the reward item as it currently is.
I would rather see these items sold in the official in game store than see people buying gold thru illegal sites and then buying the items at inflated gold prices. This at least provides some security and revenue to BS.
Actually a very simple way to settle this for both worlds would be to just make the Vet rewards bought from the store Account bound and shard bound.
This way rewards earned thru playing are still x-ferable and will command higher prices than their shard-bound counterparts.
I was on the fence but in the end voted no to the idea of the original OP. However, I kinda like the idea of they can be available (but not until at least a year after they have first become available or even longer) and they must be account-bound. I do not want people buying from the store and then selling for in-game gold. If you want to replace your rewards by buying them with real money and then sell for gold then that is okay with me. And I definitely think there should be a delay between first introduction and introduction through the store. Thus the old accounts that get them first will still be useful. The idea of being able to "buy account age" is also intriguing but I need to think on its implications more, my first thought was maybe that would be good but the more I think about it the more I have reservations.
But perhaps it would be even better if they updated some of the rewards, like those old resist cloaks. And make them something that would be more worth having.
I say yes because it’s not like Ultima Online is going to make it onther 20 years,
so new players starting now would never get the rewards we get unless they buy them from the in game store or the illegal online vendors. So why not support UO.... have them buy it here......
I am all for new players having access to buy rewards from the store. If we don't let them do it from the store, they will just find other ways. May as well generate revenue for Broasaword.
I don't understand why some people are still so dead set that they are better than someone else simply because they've played longer. I have not once, ever, played this game for anyone else but myself, but it has never once, bothered me that someone else had something that I had, regardless of how hard it was for me to get, or how long it took. I don't think I'm special, I just think some of you think you are.
Merlin is right. It's not like they aren't already available. Money is just going to the wrong people. Shard shields can stay 10 year vet rewards and new players can't use them.
Eliminate shard transfers and economy with get better. It's a way to remove economy from slower shards. Never liked it or used it. yes my accounts are of age too, just ruins the game.
