making lon loot cards available in marketplace

as the title suggests, what would stop sony from selling lon loot cards in the store? i for one would love to get my hands one some of the merc contracts instead of trying my luck with lon packs.... again i guess its a matter of how much money does sony really make from pack sales just for loot cards? To me it seems if they found the right price it might make them extra coin ... i dunno ... has this been discussed before?

Well, technically, they're already there. You just have to buy enough packs until you get them. And if the goal is to sell packs, then that's working just the way they want.

And the question is NEVER "what would stop", it's "what would start". No need to stop if you haven't started.

You can even buy packs, not open them and trade for the loot card you want in game.

The only unique item in the game is from LoN. Give me a station cash magic carpet and I'll be happy.

AND old beta rewards.

I'm kinda torn on this idea... on the one hand, I would like to be able to get some of those loot cards that have evaded me. On the other hand, some of those LoN items are rare on the servers which is cool in my opinion... having some rarely seen items is good for the game in my opinion. I'd like to see more visible items like ornaments, mounts, and merc contracts being made available through rare occurrences like a super rare spawn or GM events... just to add some intrigue to the game like in the old days. I know it won't happen though because of the expense from art development. I'm rambling...

I'd rather see more illusions and mounts from quest rewards and mob/raid drops.

There's quite a few somewhat unique rewards from LoN. Last I heard LoN rewards, marketplace stuff, and regular dropped stuff was sort of compartmentalized so as to keep them (and, I'd assume, their revenue streams) unique.

Personally, I'd just like to see LoN packs acquired through in-game means once again. LoN packs dropping was a great way to encourage cross-play between multiple games (I knew people that really enjoyed LoN that actually started EQ/EQ2 accounts to get cards and ended up enjoying it). Making them random off all mobs was undoubtedly causing an excessive influx of "free" packs, but a gold-only daily or weekly lockout task that rewards LoN cards would be a great way to get people interested in the game while providing a route for players to access those LoN rewards (via opening/trading packs, or buying packs to open/trade with platinum).