Especially when the players who originally owned them (and paid for them, real money here) have quit the game?
They are already paid for? Why can't we re-use them?
I understand they are account bound. But why can't the skills be re-moved and the stone be re-newed? It seems pointless to have hundreds of soulstones in game, that we ALREADY PAID FOR, be completely and utterly unusable. It's real money floating around in a game, and being worthless.
EA (as a last resort) could even sell us a tool that would un-bind them and wipe the skills from them for a couple of bucks. So that at least it could be used again.
It costed someone money to purchase in the first place. Why can't they be re-used if the player who bought it has quit the game entirely?