'''Bind on Pick-up''' refers to [[item]]s that a [[character]] can not trade to other characters or drop on the ground for others to pick up. These become [[soulbound]] to a character as soon as they are picked up.
There was never any serious consideration of BoP items in Diablo III, and in April 2011 Jay Wilson confirmed that there will be no item [[binding]] of any kind in the game.
==BoP In Diablo 3==
The only Early in development, quest items were basically treated as BoP items in ''[[Diablo 3]]'' are [[III. When players picked up a quest item]]s that are not used or equipped, but that must the item automatically popped into a special tab of the inventory where only quest items could be held . These items were not equippble and had no function except that they were needed for the quest. Items in the [[quest]] items [[inventory]] tab could not be picked up, and were only removable by canceling the quest, which would make the item(s) related to that are needed quest vanish. The quest item inventory had finite space, which would potentially have forced players to go back and complete earlier queststhey'd neglected to finish, if they ran out of space in the quest item inventory. These During development the D3 team found this system inconvenient and confusing, so quest items were eventually removed from the inventory entirely. Such items vanish as soon as still exist, but players can hold an unlimited amount of them, and they are not displayed visually in the quest inventory. There is completed, no picking them up either; they are taken automatically when an NPC gives them or once a player finds them in the character abandons the questdungeon.
::Most of our focus on ''[[Diablo 3]]'' is as a [[trade|trading]] game. So, if you take trading out of the item space, you ruin the core of the game. Finding a really great item that is not for you is still a great event because it means you have a bartering tool to get the item that you do want. We definitely want to make sure that that still exists.
Note that, as of Binding was finally ruled out in April 2011, by Jay Wilson in an interview with Diablo3.cc. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/jay-wilson-diablo3.cc-interview-full-transcript/] <blue>I’m happy to announce that we recently decided there are will be no longer bind on equip binding of items in Diablo III.They will be freely traded for the life of the item. The only way we are going to do any kind of binding would be for things that are not progression-sensitive. Like we might say…a quest item. We don’t want you to be able to give to other player to short circuit a quest, but if you find a sword, piece of armor, or gem....anything that you find in the ground, once you pick it up, you can freely trade it... forever.</blue>
