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I support it because it would limit the prevalence of cash shop items, and because it puts emphasis on a persons' character, not their account as a whole.
Guess I missed that tidbit. In general I support this decision, I just hope they make it extremely simple to transfer the cosmetic appearances between characters.
I don’t want all of my Alta to look the same, and... the cosmetics I purchase are typically for a specific race.
I’m not going to be using the cosmetics I purchased for Nikua on a Vek or a Human.
Also, Steven said they are considering allowing us to unassign cosmetics from one character and assigning them to another.
How many cosmetics can one character wear at once?
Seeing as leveling character to max level apparently takes almost two months, they want you to invest your time in one character at a time.
With that in mind it seems reasonable to have your skin apply to only one character (and if they implement the possibility to change that skin's assignment with a cooldown even better).
I do agree that they want character progression for each character to be quite meaningful.
Which is exactly what I want. Even though I expect to be circumventing that to some degree by mailing items between characters.
Are you planning to try to dualbox two characters in the same guild?
Store-bought cosmetics should be account-wide and have unlimited applications. This approach to restricting customers who spent $$$ on a store item sounds awful, and a bit of a slap in the face.
Its going to feel super bad to have to go through an entire process to switch, say, a mount skin across characters in a slow 'cooldown" process. Now, if the goal here is simply to sell multiple cosmetic skins to one account (one for each character) then sure, go ahead. I think that is overpunishing and will actually hurt cash shop sales.
In addition, so far we havent had the option to buy multiple. Would this be backdated and changed? I 100% agree with in game cosmetics being character bound, but having only one copy of a cash shop cosmetic is just simply going to feel bad. Its not a customer facing system, and would actually discourage me long term from buying cosmetics, or being strategic with them. I dont mind buying a $25 costume or mount skin, but buying 4 of them feels pretty greedy.
What about mounts? What if there is an awesome mount skin I want to use? I have to rotate that through all my characters I play regularly? That feels super bad.
I mostly have to agree with this sentiment; If you buy a skin, it feels like it should be something you can infinitely claim on all of your toons, without limit. They are already No-Trade to other players, so it doesn't seem like this would be too much to ask for.
ON THE OTHER HAND: Since AoC will (thankfully!) be free of P2W, maybe this is a good way to compensate for not over-monetizing the game?
If the intent is to make money from the store with cosmetics, then my point stands. I have 100s of store-bought cosmetics in GW2, and I have never used 90% of them. Why? Because they're a permanent cosmetic unlock in my wardrobe, I like collecting/having them, and my human brain thinks "I might use it one day on an alt." Has GW2 milked thousands of dollars out of me over the past 8 years for things I have never used? Yes. Am I upset by that? No, because I support the game and to me, the cost is worth it because I permanently own that item and can use it as I please. ArenaNet can take my money all day because the game is free, I love it, and they make really cool things for the store.
Not only do I disagree with restricting cosmetics to single-use (or time gating your ability to swap them) on principle; as a customer spending $$ to support the game...it fundamentally makes me only want to purchase something when I am 200% sure I will use it. This means Intrepid will get far less from me as a consumer, and potentially everyone like me. If making money is their goal with the in-game store, then this a bad approach. It's taking away the value of the purchase, and not worth buying in my opinion.
GW2 is not a fashion war game, and it absolutely is not the endgame. You're regurgitating a widely perpetuated misunderstanding/meme of what GW2 is.
Cosmetics matter in any MMO, regardless of its content, and AoC is no exception.
The meaning being in the names themselves, I think it stands to reason that all the coolest stuff would be on your main (save for very specific stuff that might fit a different archetype better).
And if at some point you decide to switch main, then you can transfer those onto the new one. I would imagine if that were the case that you wouldn't be switching every day for no reason.
Isn t an meme atleast the people i know still playing are just doing content to get weapon cosmetic x or y, when they get they stop playing or Stay just for social in the guild because there isn't nothing relevant to do, that s the main i stop playing to.... And anyway you Will have alot of cosmetics, maybe stick with One caracter , not every MMORPG are alt friendly
As someone who does raids, Fractal CMs, WvW, and arena PvP on a regular basis...your friends are playing GW2 in the most casual way possible. Which is fine, because many people do. There is plenty of content worth doing that's challenging, rewarding, and fun. I don't want to derail this discussion defending GW2 though. Go watch MightyTeapot on YouTube if you want to see the real GW2.
Some of what's being nudged is more meaningful RP.
Which may seem unusual to players who just always play themselves with different skins.
You can still do that without single-use restrictions. It's a personal decision.
Because you just swap the 10% among all your alts.
This would make me more likely to have unique appearances for my alts - with a decent spread of the cosmetics I own - rather than just have them all look the same as I keep sharing the same items with all of them.
For pvp they play pvp MMORPG like Albion and Eve, i don't need to see i played for some months, pvp is really bad and pointless, original Guild wars with actually guild wars, was much better
Again, that's a personal decision. Limiting people to single-use cosmetics will have no impact on you, and my argument from the beginning is that it's an unfair restriction for spending real $$ on an item...regardless of how you choose to use it, feel about it, or don't feel about it.
It is your personal decision. And your personal opinion.
You do you.
I'm just trying to better understand why it bothers you.