Bound Items - Why?!

[Adder]

This has been bugging me for some time now but tonight when I received some Welcome Wagon lottery winnings with some alts on Firefoot that I've started playing again, it just ticked me off enough to stop and come on here to post...

Two of my characters won the Welcome Wagon which included a Sturdy Forester's Axe - Level 13, -0.9% - which is not quite as good as the Superior Iron but acceptable, especially for characters who have been sitting since just after launch and are not rolling in coin (to put it mildly). Only problem was that neither character had the Forester Profession. The Tooltip showed Bound to Account which was just like the ones that you can purchase from the store. I thought, "Sweet. I'll put them into shared storage and give them to the characters who can use them." I put them in, ran the envelopes, then switched to the first Forester character. Upon attempting to remove the first axe from storage, I got the aggravating 'BONK' and the message That item is bound to another character and the tooltip showed Bound to {character name}<character><character name="">.</character></character>

What the 'BLEEP' is this all about? I've had other items from the lotteries do the same thing. They show Bound to Account and then switch to Bound to Character when you put it into shared storage. Not all items do it, but enough to get really aggravating. What is the sense in this? Those Axes are totally worthless to a character who can't use them so why bind them to the character in a random lottery winning? Same with many of the other items that I've seen do this. C'mon Sapience. Unbind these lottery items for crying out loud.

/Vent Off

[redwoodtreesprite]

Yeah. I won that lottery on 2 of my characters as well. Neither had foresting. The axe icons had normal backgrounds rather than that blue one we get from store items. And from the moment I took them from the mailbox, they did say bound to my character. In the past when crafting tools were part of a lottery's winnings, they were bound to account. I do not like this change at all.

[Sapience]

Please submit a /bug report about the item stating it was bound to account but inaccessible to other characters.

[Hatter_of_Bree]

Well, that definitely looks worthy of /BUG it.

Items marked as bound to account, shouldnt become bound to character on a whim.

It may as well be something that today maintenenace introduced (wild guess)

[Crell_1]

OP's post was written prior to the maintenance. The maintenance was NOT a game update. Therefore, this issue will not have been effected.

Clearly this is something that needs fixing /bug