Locked crates will never be free to open... it's the main income medium for arcane legends. People tend to buy plat solely to open crates. If this purpose gets defeated, there will be a hole in STS's pocket. Not only would the price of crates skyrocket, but you may also see a change in the prices of mythic and arcane items. There would be final consumers (After the crates get traded and traded and traded) who would be opening these crates. Generally, if more crates are getting opened, more mythics/arcanes will be looted. Let's say, on any given day, there would be 1,500 crates opened, and out of those 4,500 rolls (1 crate = 3 rolls), 4 mythics were looted and 2 arcanes. In one day of the free crates, let's say 4,500 crates are opened (13,500 rolls). That would be triple the average of the regular crates. So about 12 mythics were looted and 6 arcane items... that's 8 more mythics and 4 more arcanes than it normally would be. (Please no hate on the improbability of these values, the purpose is to point something out). But i do, however, think locked crates should be Unlocked before they can be open. Meaning that person A can unlock a crate for 15 plats, and give/trade person B the unlocked crate.