With the September 26 Early Access launch of Throne & Liberty impending, it seems players have a few questions about the free-to-play MMORPG’s model. In a new developer update blog, Throne & Liberty’s team clarified several of its business model questions, including Auction House transactions and cosmetic item usage across an account.
Already, we know that the Auction House will primarily utilize Lucent, the primary “premium currency” in Throne & Liberty. This blog clarifies specifically that sellers don’t need to use any Lucent in order to list items, so any player can list an item on the market.
It’s also explained that the Auction House does pretty severely limit the types of items bought to being “base level.” This means that if you’ve upgraded your items in any way, or got them from instanced content including dungeons and guild raids, you won’t be able to sell them. However, you can still sell crafting components or the like, which is a commonly-moving marketplace item in these types of games.
If one character isn’t doing so hot, thankfully Lucent is also account-wide, so you can tap into one character’s profits to help get gear for another.
Besides the Auction House, the game lets players know that any cosmetics acquired through external means will be account-wide. This includes real-world or Lucent current items, Early Access packs (and presumably any that come later), and Twitch Drops. And if you picked up an Early Access pack, they’ll be dropping more colors of some of those cosmetics.
Throne & Liberty had to bump its release date back a week late last month, but given it was likely in grave danger of not existing at all, that seems a fair compromise.
