buying companions costs a lot of crowns. sometimes, i want those companions on other characters, but i cant buy crowns for those. we should be able to buy with gold. sure it would cost a fortune and those who already spent crowns on alts would be mad, but i already spend tons of crowns on companions. it should probably cost a fortune to buy companions like 100,000 gold. what do you think?

Sneaky George Quar... on May 30, 2013 wrote:

buying companions costs a lot of crowns. sometimes, i want those companions on other characters, but i cant buy crowns for those. we should be able to buy with gold. sure it would cost a fortune and those who already spent crowns on alts would be mad, but i already spend tons of crowns on companions. it should probably cost a fortune to buy companions like 100,000 gold. what do you think?

i have already posted about this a while back... but i was saying that we should get them for free! but you idea of paying for gold is even better! and for those who already payed twice in crown could just be getting their crowns back? that would sound fair! buying companions twice is just not logic

Vinny Ace on May 31, 2013 wrote:

i have already posted about this a while back... but i was saying that we should get them for free! but you idea of paying for gold is even better! and for those who already payed twice in crown could just be getting their crowns back? that would sound fair! buying companions twice is just not logic

This is actually a pretty good solution to dealing with purchases for alts: any crowns item you've purchased that is non-transferable (i.e. crew, ships, houses) becomes available for a large amount of gold. This way, you could still buy it with crowns, or you could grind up enough gold to buy it. Either way, KI gets extra money from you buying the companion/ship/house with crowns to save time OR by you spending time (and therefore either crowns for buying chapters or buying a subscription) and buying a ship/crew for one character doesn't net you the same kind of buyer's remorse you might experience if there was no way to transfer it should you decide you don't like playing a buccaneer (or whatever) after all! In some cases, concessions like this can help improve customer loyalty and encourage the next purchase, since there isn't the same kind of loss aversion they had from buying a crowns ship they outgrew and couldn't use on an alt, for example.

I love the idea too. After all we have paid real money for these items be it companions or ships and it is harsh that we cant share them with our other pirates. The option of being able to buy it again with gold is Great and I would do it in a flash. Please consider it KingsIsle