100% signed.
Completely agreed. I've felt that NC's attempts to "secure" their online store have in effect broken it for nearly 2 years now.
Why bother encouraging you to invite friends to play, or play with your significant partners, when on the other hand, you make it impossible to buy and gift all the pay-to addons the game has been coming out with.
I'm on a limited budget. As is my girlfriend. I'd love to be able to gift her costume packs "just because" or for other minor occasions. We often get more enjoyment out of small silly things, or working on costumes together, than we do anything else in the game.
"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill
I think this is a great idea.
While it's true you can buy other players time-cards they can use to apply to their account. But for those who live in the EU or just about anywhere outside the US, there are no time-cards locally. The only way to give people game-time or super-boosters is by giving them the money equal to it's price, which would only go towards the purchase the long way around
What I suggest is explained simply as, allow players to give game-time, super-boosters or even expansions as gifts that are paid by the gifter and then manually applied (or declined, if technically possible) by the owner of the account.
Then if I want to give a friend an extra month of game-time for Issue 17, I can. If I want to get a friend a particular super-booster, I can. If my friend wants to prepurchase Going Rogue but can't afford it, he can.
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