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binding diamonds isn't something they'd have to "work on." It exists in the game. Remember that @ one point all of the diamonds were bound unless they were purchased w/ gift cards that you paid for up-front. *cough*zeevex*cough*

There used to be a screen that even told you what the status of your diamonds was... ie, what was locked & what was not locked.

Quoted from "ycavan"

binding diamonds isn't something they'd have to "work on." It exists in the game. Remember that @ one point all of the diamonds were bound unless they were purchased w/ gift cards that you paid for up-front. *cough*zeevex*cough*

There used to be a screen that even told you what the status of your diamonds was... ie, what was locked & what was not locked.

this is one of the best solutions i have found, but it still doesn't solve spamming. unless just make it so you can't buy megas with bound dias(i.e. dias bought from AH)...

Simple agreement with Ycavan's reply and Cike. Making megaphones, regular or on sale, only purchasable by non-bound diamonds is the solution I had in mind for gold spammers..

Quoted from "RoMage"

But lets be honest, reason DIAS are removed from AH, as well GF got rid of DIAS NPC is not what has been told to players. We all know that by now, don't we?

Well, frankly, I _know_ nothing. I have my guesses, but GF is really tight-lipped about the reasons...

I'd just say this: in general for most problems there are no bullet-proof solutions, and when looking for solutions the aim is not really to make it not possible to abuse but to make it as difficult/impractical as possible to abuse. There is a balance needed: things should still be easy for "normal/real" players. Level limit: great. True that some old accounts could be hacked but they will get reported and it will limit how easy it is to do this or that. Phirius tokens: great. True that you can give a candy to a 5 years old for doing some silly dailies once a day, but still - for most cases it will be an obstacle making it not worth the effort. Whether it's about a right to use Cedrik or a right to trade dias on AH - if it's about limiting abuse by alts or not-real-players (goldsellers) you could go for some combination of the conditions (before you qualify : you have to be level 50+ AND you have to finish at least 1 daily today AND you have to finish at least one title quest today AND you have to finish at least one mingame today AND you have to kill at least one boss (be it FA) today AND the account has to exist for at least 2 months AND you must have been logged in on at least 5 different days during last two weeks AND ...whatever... - cool, would not block abusing in 100% but even for ppl wanting to use Cedrik on multiple accounts it would be a strongly limiting set of requirements).

But IF the only problem that lead GF to removing dias from AH was duping dias in the mailbox - they would need to either fix this or have a different way of delivering diamonds bought on AH. All considerations about megas, goldsellers etc. would be irrelevant. (But who knows - GF says nothing about the reasons there is no dia trade...)

@OP: yeah, sure - IF the problem with AH was that reselling dias was a predictable source of gold for goldsellers, then binding second-hand dias would be a solution indeed. But IF the problem was that goldsellers got gold in a different way (boting KS or whatever) and dias on AH was just a way to buy megas - no need to bind dias from AH. Imho, as long as GF does not say what they perceive as the main problem with dias on AH it's really just another thread suggesting a solution for an unknown problem.


PS: Some comments just blow my mind away:

Quoted from "ycavan"

binding diamonds isn't something they'd have to "work on." It exists in the game. Remember that @ one point all of the diamonds were bound unless they were purchased w/ gift cards that you paid for up-front. *cough*zeevex*cough*

There used to be a screen that even told you what the status of your diamonds was... ie, what was locked & what was not locked.

Wasnt actually aware of that i remember something of the sort but i didnt actually remember til you said that