I understand why the ability to transfer EC from one account to another is a poor business idea and could be easily abused. However, I do on occasion wish I could gift people EC. Ie. For my sister's birthday. I suggest, ATA add the option to purchase EC as a gift for another ign. I see that this could also possible be abused, so perhaps with a limit to how many or the amount of these gifts you may purchase within a time period? Any thoughts?
Sorry, strong no from me. This will just enable the ability for players to potentially talk new players in to gifting ECs since many of them don’t understand its value.
And farm for them, too. Since PvP isn't part of the tutorial, a lot of noobs are very nervous and ignorant about things relating to it. It's well known that threats of farming are used as an intimidation tactic for people of all experience levels, but noobs in particular are vulnerable. In the case of your sister's birthday, would purchasing her a gift card to her app store (iTunes or Google Play) suffice instead of gifting EC directly? It would have the same impact, but she may have a bit more freedom (i.e. a $25 USD card could get her VIP for a week for $20 USD along with 6 DNs for $5 USD).
If it’s your sister irl just buy her a gpc or iTunes gift card, technically still buying them for her. Any transaction of ecs is a hard nope for me.
Exactly. Though I think many players would use the gifting ECs properly, there are just too many who would do exactly the opposite. Plus I can see players trying to scam for trading as well.
Yeah. This is an idea that generally I think would be a really good one, but actually implementing it (especially on a community of this size, which is much larger than it was when RS EC-trades were a thing) would cause a lot of issues. If the community weren't so bad, this would totally have my support. I just don't trust everyone on here to have a good set of morals.
Yes, my sister is actually a poor example I suppose because there are many other ways for me to gift her, haha. Like... Knock on her door and hand her the money. ? I was more thinking of others I have sometimes wanted to gift, but preferred not to use other channels of getting them money. To fix the noob problem, perhaps they could make it so where only accounts that are x days old can purchase EC as a gift. Perhaps not even allowing them access until other purchases have been made. As the the aresehole farmers, that's why I suggested the limits on how much and how many times you can gift EC. Farming for EC is already against tou ...right?, so I believe this would fall under that category.
Though I see what you mean, I feel like it would still be an issue. There’s a lot of players who don’t know that you are unable to farm for EC items, and I think the farming for ECs wouldn’t be solved by just putting a restriction on newer players.
No support. If you remember They had EC exchange feature to your RS. when RS was just introduced but then that was taken away for a reason.
Not sure I really expected a lot of support from others in forums, haha. I still think there is a way for ATA to implement some kind of EC gifting system that would be beneficial to them as well as us. From what I've gathered in the discussion thus far is that the main concern of a feature like this would be the ability to intimidate others through pvp actions as a way of abusing it. It seems like ATA has a long way to go still with ironing out the details and features in their pvp side of this game. This is the only game I've come across where pvp is a concern and deterrent for the community when discussing ways that could potentially generate more sales.