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Phase I of Alpha Two testing will occur on weekends. Each weekend is scheduled to start on Fridays at 10 AM PT and end on Sundays at 10 PM PT. Find out more here.
Check out Alpha Two Announcements here to see the latest Alpha Two news and update notes.
Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
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...when its chucked on the bonfire
and such is nature of cash shops....
I know intrepid has none of this,yet, but this character's I just described would be running around on these silly looking teddy bears as they make there way to their swan like ship. I want bigger and bolder from intrepid, not little and silly.
Nothing confirmed/unconfirmed about skimpy outfits. Though from concept art it looks like casual wear looks more revolutionary war. Didn't see a lot of bikini pinups from that period. Boobie sliders confirmed. No male endowment sliders confirmed.
Something fresh, original, and very cool at least.
There are other people, however, that do opposite, like me. When I see such things in game, I stop spending money on it out of principle.
Just though I would mention it to help add awareness.
I am also perplexed how anyone's immersion can be broken when they know next to nothing about the world's aesthetic to have formed an opinion on what is immersive on Verra in the first place. What has happened is people headcannoned a bunch of stuff they wanted to fill the void in what was known about the world, and are now having to adapt their inaccurate assumptions to the end product.
This will not be the last cute item. Far from it. The good news is you don't have to use them. Your sense of immersion does not trump anyone else's though. And I find this bear increases my own immersion into a FANTASY world full of magic.
Game requires monthly subscription. There needs to be no replacing for anything.
Cash shop is OK for P2P game, but only if it features only cosmetics, and if those cosmetics are available through game as well.
People paying subscription need to be able to get everything through playing the game, and CS in P2P game can only offer alternative to getting same cosmetics available from game, for people that can't spend so much time in game that they are able to gain cosmetics on their own, so they trade some cash to get them.
Cosmetics that are "more shiny" in CS than in game, have no place in P2P game.
WoW has a cash shop, box and expansion prices and a sub. FFXIV has a box price, expansion price, a sub and a shop. ESO has an optional sub and cosmetic shop, but also has a box and expansion prices.
Ashes only requiring a sub and having a non P2W shop makes it one of the least monetized games I have had any involvement with.
CS cosmetics being on pair with in game obtain cosmetics is OK.
If they place "crap cosmetics" in game, and "all the good stuff in CS" they will not get a cent from me, not even for a sub.
I was extremely disappointed and annoyed when Black Desert Online released and everyone of a certain class looked exactly the same. What was even more infuriating was that the only way to look different, or even decent was to cough up real money and throw it at the Cash Shop. Now that is what I believe to be a disgusting way of running a Cash Shop.
Initially, I was rather worried about how IS were going to go about implementing a balance between Cash Shop and in-game cosmetics. However, since then I have seen several statements about it and so far I like what I am reading:
These are 2 easily found comments from Steven found in the #intrepid_answers section of their Discord.
Obviously it's up to IS to keep their promise and show us that in-game cosmetics are as decent as the Cash Shop ones, but for now I choose to believe they will be true to their statements.
I'm totally fine with matching Stuffertons with something of equivalent in game quality of course. I just didn't think anyone would go for that but it seems they might.
Unless the implication was we not do cute at all, which the ship has CLEARLY sailed on that.