Since this week’s preview launch of SWTOR’s Cartel Market on the PTS, there have been a number of questions and concerns raised by the community. Luckily, BioWare’s team took some time to address many of those concerns. For your convenience, here is a collection of those posts.
The first was in regards to some Cartel Market cosmetic items that come with timers that last for five days. Players questioned what would happen after the timer runs out:
Originally posted by AllisonBerryman (Source)
I can clarify that the item will not disappear after the timer is over – after that time period, the item is no longer bound to you and can be traded!
This is an interesting addition to the Market, and may help our in-game economy if it makes it into the feature’s launch on live servers. Keep reading for the rest of the dev tracker updates!
Later on in the day, Nathan Emmott gave this update:
Originally posted by NathanEmmott (Source)
Thanks for pointing this out; the current temporary bind durations for Cartel Market items are indeed incorrect for Subscribers. Subscribers will find a much shorter duration on the binding from Market items.I’ve seen some discussions on the test server wondering why we even have the binding rules in place. To be blunt, it’s to limit fraud. Allowing players to trade items they buy from the Market, to give gifts, and to sell them on the Galactic Trade Network is core to our plans for the Cartel Market and an experience we only want to improve!
We will be reducing the bind duration time by the launch of 1.5, and will be following feedback closely to ensure we’re making everyone’s experience as positive as possible!
We also received this confirmation regarding HK-51 and Section X:
Originally posted by AllisonBerryman (Source)
Just to make sure this is clear, players who are subscribed will not have to pay to unlock Section X and HK-51. There has been some confusion about this due to an issue on PTS that does not make it appear unlocked to players there.
Excellent.
Finally, some important updates yesterday:
Originally posted by AllisonBerryman (Source)
Yes, everyone on PTS is now classified as Free-to-Play for testing purposes. This doesn’t affect your account on the live servers and will allow us to test the restrictions more thoroughly. We’ll be granting more Cartel Coins to PTS accounts soon for testing (note that this only affects the PTS server!).
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