Tradable Cash Shop Items

jusomdude

Do you think cash shops are better when items bought through them can be traded/sold in game? Why, or why not?

Quizzical

It depends on what items.  If it's just a subscription where a given player can only use one per month, then yes, definitely.  If it's random boxes where you can realistically trade the items you got for the items you actually wanted, then perhaps, though I don't like random boxes in a cash shop regardless.  If it only serves to make whales more dominant than before because they can then buy all the non-cash shop items that matter, too, then no.

TheDarkrayne

I think it makes it better for people who don't want to use the cash shop. Some people would rather grind than pay all the time and it means they can.

I'm all for it, to be honest. We'd be better off without cash shops altogether but they aren't going anywhere. Making sure there's a way to get those things without paying is a good thing for players who don't want to constantly dump money on a game and gives lots to spend the infinite currency on at endgame.

I spend plenty on MMOs but I don't think I've ever spent real money to get a cosmetic in my life. But, in a game like SWTOR, I've obtained tons of the ones from the cash shop as a side activity.

iixviiiix

better to trade-able

GeezerGamer

Can't say I am a fan. The moment you can trade in game for anything you bought with real money, you now have a real money based game economy which, depending on what you can buy would probably be P2W.

centkin

It is funny in a non-haha way to consider Asheron's Call with Subscriptions on the tradebots and wondering just how many granite blocks, steel, or sing keys would actually buy a sub.

immodium

SWTOR allows you to trade most cash shop/loot box items for in game currency.

I prefer it as it's an alternative to spending real world cash.

AAAMEOW

I prefer making cashshop item untradable.  Simply because  the games I played with tradable cashshop item are usually more pay to win.

Scot

Binding to Account stops unchecked and unexpected ways of players and third party sites exploiting the player to player trading system.

Wellspring

Cash shops are the worst. Making the items tradeable is even worse. Might as well be legalizing gold selling. 

Renoaku

jusomdude said:

Do you think cash shops are better when items bought through them can be traded/sold in game? Why, or why not?

Don't really care, except games like BDO where it's not worth selling Cash Shop items due to market cap, and no player to player trading.

Sure it prevents gold sellers, but when you pay like  $20-$30 USD per costume you can sell for like 100-140 mil max and meanwhile the person who buys it and turns into cron stones for a 200+ Mil profit although bound it's not worth selling for that price which is why you can never really actively find a lot of cash shop items on the market.

Sure it's great Warframe has player 2 player, and plat trading assuming you never get caught up in a scammer who commits fraud and receive currency in a trade it's not an issue, but then i've only had that happen in one game so far, every other game including War Frame, is great when it comes to buying and selling items for plat.

And personally I could careless about gold selling in games, or cash shop items being able to be traded in fact it opens it up for players who can't afford Real Money in a game to obtain the items the exception being BDO i'd rather donate $30 in a costume to a friend or clan member than list it on the market because it's just not worthit especially now that people can just snipe from a player who could really use the costume and turn it into cron stones.

Having a free market prevents this and promotes higher values, at least a item should be able to be priced at around 200+ mil thus preventing people from making a profit if people turn it into cron stones they lose the same amount of money.