Buying free to play items on 07/04/2017 12:52 PM CDT
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I would like to buy free-to-play boosts with my premium account.

I have a F2P paladin that I keep for when I turn off the premium account, as I do from time to time when $$ gets tight. I like knowing that I can keep playing with my F2P dwarf gal.

I have simucoins on my premium account and want to buy a society pass for my paladin, but cannot buy F2P boosts with a non F2P account.

Maybe there's some reason for this because of some possibility for abuse that I'm not seeing. But if not, it would make me happy to be able to spend the simucoins I bought on any of my accounts, including my F2P one.
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Re: Buying free to play items on 07/04/2017 05:59 PM CDT
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It's abuse because Premium accounts get a 10% discount, so you'd be getting the benefit of cheaper SimuCoin purchases on the Premium account, and then being able to use those (discounted) SimuCoins to benefit the actual F2P.
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Re: Buying free to play items on 07/04/2017 06:02 PM CDT
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>> It's abuse because Premium accounts get a 10% discount, so you'd be getting the benefit of cheaper SimuCoin purchases on the Premium account, and then being able to use those (discounted) SimuCoins to benefit the actual F2P.

Not sure I agree with your interpretation here... A lot of things can be purchased using one account and then give to / utilized by another so I don't think your 'abuse' label is appropriate or correct in this case.

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Re: Buying free to play items on 07/04/2017 06:04 PM CDT
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Given that these items cannot... then clearly the intent is that the money flow from F2P accounts to buy those items.
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Re: Buying free to play items on 07/04/2017 08:01 PM CDT
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>> Given that these items cannot... then clearly the intent...

Or someone included a search parameter by account type so as not to clutter someone's screen with things they did not think they would want to see, and did not think that Houses, Organizations, or a big brother might want to buy some of them.

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Re: Buying free to play items on 07/04/2017 08:11 PM CDT
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I'm pretty sure F2P items are non-transferrable, so that they (also) cannot be sold for silvers. With the free SCs being given to paid accounts, I highly doubt that they will allow F2P items to transfer between player characters.
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Re: Buying free to play items on 07/05/2017 08:24 AM CDT
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I'd forgotten about those free SimuCoins, given how new that is, but that's an even more telling point.
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Re: Buying free to play items on 07/05/2017 10:57 AM CDT
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There are a few reasons that they aren't available.

The biggest is they are useless to non-F2P accounts. We have discovered that even having a disclaimer that it is a F2P item doesn't stop people from going in and buying them for their non-F2P accounts. GameMasters cannot issue refunds for SimuCoins, nor can I.



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Re: Buying free to play items on 07/05/2017 11:07 AM CDT
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The problem with trying to make everything idiot-proof is that the world is actively making better idiots.
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