[New Users] Please note that all new users need to be approved before posting. This process can take up to 24 hours. Thank you for your patience.
Check out the v.255 - The Dark Ride: Ride or DIe Patch Notes here!
If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the Forums Code of Conduct: https://forums.maplestory.nexon.net/discussion/29556/code-of-conducts

Cross character medal reclaiming

Superfish606Superfish606
Reactions: 960
Posts: 11
Member
edited September 2019 in Suggestions, Feedback, and Requests
I believe that medals you've earned should be available to all of the characters you have. I have switched mains several times, and consequently I have a lot of untradeable event medals spread across a few characters. I love medals. They're a great way to say "I was there". I like to switch them out depending on my outfits. Some of them are bragging rights (haha). This would function just as the medal reclaiming already does - if a character already has claimed it, you can't until disposing of it. I think it's totally fair to have access to all of the medals you have earned.
Is there a logistical reason why this wouldn't work?

Comments

  • HHG1HHG1
    Reactions: 5,986
    Posts: 780
    Member, Private Tester
    edited September 2019
    I both agree and disagree. A lot of medals are character-specific, and tells you what kind of progress they've made when it comes to quests and such. A level 50 character having medals registered from clearing Arcane River content doesn't make sense because you didn't clear that content yet. You can anvil those if you absolutely want to but they won't show up in your collection.
    Some medals are server-wide, like the monster collection ones.
    I do think that some event/hot day/hot week medals should be transferable if they didn't require you to do something specific on one character/couldn't be completed on more than one character.
  • AKradianAKradian
    Reactions: 40,340
    Posts: 6,342
    Member, Private Tester
    edited September 2019
    That's what medal anvils are for.
    You could have at least waited a few days, maybe we'd all forget you're the one who asked to move the Beater medal to your new main, and was given a good reason why it can't be done
  • Superfish606Superfish606
    Reactions: 960
    Posts: 11
    Member
    edited September 2019
    AKradian wrote: »
    That's what medal anvils are for.
    You could have at least waited a few days, maybe we'd all forget you're the one who asked to move the Beater medal to your new main, and was given a good reason why it can't be done

    Well, it's easy to tell when a medal isn't real. I would like to have the stats of them.
    Also, I don't see why I should have waited. Beater is a huge reason for me why I think this should be a feature, but I also have a lot of others I'd like, Andromeda VIP on my Jett, Beater and The Best Around on my old main (just to name a few). I stand my ground. I think this is a good feature. I am not ashamed of my driving motive.
    I don't think "blah legal reasons" is a good answer because I have the medal on one character, and I have a hard time understanding why I can't have it on a different one instead. There's basically no difference, right?
  • Superfish606Superfish606
    Reactions: 960
    Posts: 11
    Member
    edited September 2019
    HHG1 wrote: »
    I both agree and disagree. A lot of medals are character-specific, and tells you what kind of progress they've made when it comes to quests and such. A level 50 character having medals registered from clearing Arcane River content doesn't make sense because you didn't clear that content yet. You can anvil those if you absolutely want to but they won't show up in your collection.
    Some medals are server-wide, like the monster collection ones.
    I do think that some event/hot day/hot week medals should be transferable if they didn't require you to do something specific on one character/couldn't be completed on more than one character.
    That's true. Class specific and arcana medals would make the idea a little harder to execute.
    Event medals should be account tradable. I stick by that. Most of them are one of a kind, and it's a shame to say goodbye to one just because you move characters.
    Possibly a PSOK type item for certain event medals.
  • AggraphineAggraphine
    Reactions: 19,415
    Posts: 3,553
    Member
    edited September 2019
    AKradian wrote: »
    That's what medal anvils are for.
    You could have at least waited a few days, maybe we'd all forget you're the one who asked to move the Beater medal to your new main, and was given a good reason why it can't be done

    Well, it's easy to tell when a medal isn't real. I would like to have the stats of them.
    Also, I don't see why I should have waited. Beater is a huge reason for me why I think this should be a feature, but I also have a lot of others I'd like, Andromeda VIP on my Jett, Beater and The Best Around on my old main (just to name a few). I stand my ground. I think this is a good feature. I am not ashamed of my driving motive.
    I don't think "blah legal reasons" is a good answer because I have the medal on one character, and I have a hard time understanding why I can't have it on a different one instead. There's basically no difference, right?

    I don't think "blah legal reasons" is a good answer for not selling the old crossover event cash items. They should start selling them again. What could possibly go wrong?

    There's a reason why all of the crossover events(sword art online, attack on titan, evangelion, cardcaptor sakura, re:zero) saw their accompanying cash shop items utterly vanish, never to be seen again, as soon as the events were over. I don't know, I can't know, what the agreements actually said, but the simple fact that all of the themed items disappeared from sale or general availability as soon as the associated events ended is rather telling. You may think there's no harm, but you also can't know what the agreement for the event stipulated. For all you or I know, requesting the medal be transferred from one character to another, even within the same account and world, skirts precariously close to things they'd prefer to avoid.

    You want a medal with good stats on your non-beater-medal characters? Slog through masteria through time like the rest of us.
  • Superfish606Superfish606
    Reactions: 960
    Posts: 11
    Member
    edited September 2019
    Aggraphine wrote: »
    AKradian wrote: »
    That's what medal anvils are for.
    You could have at least waited a few days, maybe we'd all forget you're the one who asked to move the Beater medal to your new main, and was given a good reason why it can't be done

    Well, it's easy to tell when a medal isn't real. I would like to have the stats of them.
    Also, I don't see why I should have waited. Beater is a huge reason for me why I think this should be a feature, but I also have a lot of others I'd like, Andromeda VIP on my Jett, Beater and The Best Around on my old main (just to name a few). I stand my ground. I think this is a good feature. I am not ashamed of my driving motive.
    I don't think "blah legal reasons" is a good answer because I have the medal on one character, and I have a hard time understanding why I can't have it on a different one instead. There's basically no difference, right?

    I don't think "blah legal reasons" is a good answer for not selling the old crossover event cash items. They should start selling them again. What could possibly go wrong?

    There's a reason why all of the crossover events(sword art online, attack on titan, evangelion, cardcaptor sakura, re:zero) saw their accompanying cash shop items utterly vanish, never to be seen again, as soon as the events were over. I don't know, I can't know, what the agreements actually said, but the simple fact that all of the themed items disappeared from sale or general availability as soon as the associated events ended is rather telling. You may think there's no harm, but you also can't know what the agreement for the event stipulated. For all you or I know, requesting the medal be transferred from one character to another, even within the same account and world, skirts precariously close to things they'd prefer to avoid.

    You want a medal with good stats on your non-beater-medal characters? Slog through masteria through time like the rest of us.

    I can move my Kirito outfit as well as any other copyrighted event items from character to character. I think not selling cash items that contain copyrighted images and names anymore makes sense. But moving an already owned item is pretty different. Antellion doesn't even have half the stats Beater does. And I've done it, on several characters. To get Beater, I actually earned NX back when that was possible. I was like 14 when it was a thing, I didn't exactly have money. I definitely have worked hard for the things I have (like the rest of you).
  • AggraphineAggraphine
    Reactions: 19,415
    Posts: 3,553
    Member
    edited September 2019
    There's a difference between moving things through the cash shop, which is entirely a user-end process, and having a medal moved from one character to another, which is a back-end process.
  • Superfish606Superfish606
    Reactions: 960
    Posts: 11
    Member
    edited September 2019
    Aggraphine wrote: »
    There's a difference between moving things through the cash shop, which is entirely a user-end process, and having a medal moved from one character to another, which is a back-end process.
    So....why not have it be a user end process? :]