Consideration for Weekly Account Rewards changed to account-bound

[ShadowWar]

Here is the preamble to present my point of view and reasoning on this specific subject.
I'd love to hear if others agree. With the influx of new players, I want to see as much done as possible to keep the population healthy and happy, so that we can all continue to enjoy this hobby for years to come. I want get ahead of them who will hang around a long time, and do things to encourage that under two principles:

1. I believe one of the best ways to enjoy this game is with alts, playing both sides even, and exploring as much of it as deeply as possible.

• I believe reducing time barriers to let people get back into the fun of the game is better for it's overall health.

With that, I think that weekend event rewards should be account-bound instead of player-bound. For many reasons, players have multiple characters, and sending things that you earn on one character to help another doesn't feel like it should be a difficult or onerous task, but it often is. So, to make the player experience more friendly and fun, I suggest all weekend event rewards become account-bound instead of player bound.
This kind of change will absolutely help me, but only in regards to saving me time. The back and forth of goods is a chore, not gameplay, and I present this, because if I'm frustrated by it, I believe others are as well. Additionally, it will help encourage to play alts more often to farm Soulstones for whichever character is their most favorite to play at a given time. As such, here is my response to the questions presented as a sort of template to make consumption hopefully easier to digest and address on a point-by-point basis.

- Brief description of the problem or condition.
Rewards that you get for weekly activities on multiple characters are often bound to that character, this is an impediment to those who play multiple characters.

- Short description of the proposal or feedback.
Make the rewards account-bound instead of character-bound

- What is the rationale for the feedback.
Once a player reaches a point in the hobby that they are making multiple characters, they may be trying to progress in other ways as well. The rewards being character-bound instead of account-bound doesn't stop the player from still using those rewards in a centralized manner. For example: Player A needs weekend mats to make higher end consumables (such as armor pots). Player has characterA and characterB, both have different gathering professions, but the same farming profession. Player A passes the non-character bound materialss back and forth via mail. There is no meaningful barrier to consumption as the cost is negligible.

- Suggestions for solutions & implementation.
Making the items bound to account would relieve time-blocks to gameplay, and allow players get to things that are more fun (fighting!) and less busy-work.

- Inquiry about the technical/design barriers of implementation.
I see two possible negative outcomes to this:

1. Loss of an economy sink of the cost of items sent in mail.

• Soulstone pooling on an account may not be desired.

- Are there existing elements in-game that could help?
Yes, the classifications already exist in game, and hopefully, can be updated easily.

- General questions on unclear points.
If the negatives presented are significant enough to keep the barriers in place, or if perhaps it can be broken down more granularly.

[Ninjagon]

Expedition resources needed for LotD are account bound and it really helps with the option to bring the right (and needed) character for the event.
The same help will come with the (account bound) weekly rewards.
DO it pls.

[nocturnalguest]

Any resources being account-bound is what i support. Crests, weekly rewards. This game has much to offer, i could name lesser then 5 people who mostly play one class, players who handicap themselves and play only one realm are also the minority, people who have got 5+ alts BiS 80+ are also the minority. So at least making weekly account bound definitely helps the majority and the truth is player retention has nothing to do with grind but gameplay. So lesser brainless grind is always welcomed in my opinion.
Agree that to fully enjoy, discover and understand this game you have to play many classes and different realms.

[Coocooclock]

Hello you have too many alts! And they will burn you out. That sums up your post. I only play one toon and maybe switch every few months. I dont get burnt out like this

[Delerium69]

Partially agree - make renown pots and soulstones account bound. Obviously leave crests as player bound.

[Ashoris]

Hello you have too many alts! And they will burn you out. That sums up your post. I only play one toon and maybe switch every few months. I dont get burnt out like this

there maybe more than 1 point of view regarding this topic !
maybe he is simply less selfish and logs whats needed ? instead of sticking to 1 char ?

[ShadowWar]

Hello you have too many alts! And they will burn you out. That sums up your post. I only play one toon and maybe switch every few months. I dont get burnt out like this

I disagree with basically everything you said, but I appreciate your feedback!

[derKleineKerl]

Would really love it If soulstones would be account bound.

[kleinbuchstabe]

I would like to see that all these things like crest, soulstones, renown pots etc are account bounded.
Maybe somone can explain me a good reason why they are not, cause i dont see any. The things are earned in a fair way by playing the game, and there is also no situation how you can exploid it. Every char in every tier got the same amount of crests. So why not share them between the alts? Only exception may be the war tokens, cause its more easy to farm them with a high level char than with low level. But thats only for war tokens, not for the crests from my point of view.

[Helwer]

Agree and progressive to share more - guild coins, crests i.e. and pls really account and not faction-bound.