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was this talked about in the recent dev update? I haven't heard about this.

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.

Goatrek

Anything limiting the amount of paid cosmetics in circulation in game is a pro in my book.

Dygz

It was talked about in today’s Livestream.

Plateau

Shoelid

Swaftworth wrote: »

Shoelid wrote: »

was this talked about in the recent dev update? I haven't heard about this.

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.

Yes it was briefly mentioned at the end of the most recent Livestream aka today.

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.

Dygz

I’m an altaholic. For me, what Steven described is fine.
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?

Plateau

Asgerr

The idea is that they want choices to matter. One such choice is: what character do I play?

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).

Dygz

I don't agree that they want us to invest our time one character at a time, but...
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.

Dygz

Swaftworth wrote: »

You are correct Steven did mention unassigning cosmetics however he also said its going to be on a cool-down he also said. so if you wanted to move your cosmetic over to another character you have to wait, in the case of a guild event where everyone is wearing matching cosmetics you would have to wait before your cosmetics got transferred over.

Under what circumstances could you possibly be switching a guild costume between characters so quickly?
Are you planning to try to dualbox two characters in the same guild?

Kat_N7

Not a fan. I personally would buy far fewer cosmetics if this is how they function. On principle, if I buy a cosmetic (mount or outfit) then I would like to feel like I own it and can use it freely for all time on all characters. Restricting it to a single character feels pointless and the logic behind "making characters unique" doesn't adequately justify making STORE ITEMS restricted. I am 100% onboard with in-game EARNED cosmetics to be unique to your character...but if I spend real money on something then I don't want to have to buy it multiple times if I love it enough to use it on multiple characters. ESPECIALLY MOUNTS.

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.

Plateau

ItsFayne

I have to agree.

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.

ItsFayne

Dygz wrote: »

Swaftworth wrote: »

You are correct Steven did mention unassigning cosmetics however he also said its going to be on a cool-down he also said. so if you wanted to move your cosmetic over to another character you have to wait, in the case of a guild event where everyone is wearing matching cosmetics you would have to wait before your cosmetics got transferred over.

Under what circumstances could you possibly be switching a guild costume between characters so quickly?
Are you planning to try to dualbox two characters in the same guild?

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.

Tyranthraxus

BSkitty wrote: »

Not a fan. I personally would buy far fewer cosmetics if this is how they function. On principle, if I buy a cosmetic (mount or outfit) then I would like to feel like I own it and can use it freely for all time on all characters. Restricting it to a single character feels pointless and the logic behind "making characters unique" doesn't adequately justify making STORE ITEMS restricted. I am 100% onboard with in-game EARNED cosmetics to be unique to your character...but if I spend real money on something then I don't want to have to buy it multiple times if I love it enough to use it on multiple characters. ESPECIALLY MOUNTS.

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.

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?

Ramirez

People are already talking about having alot of alts... It s just me that play with only One caracter? People don't even know how hard Will be to progresso with One caracter...

Kat_N7

Tyranthraxus wrote: »

BSkitty wrote: »

Not a fan. I personally would buy far fewer cosmetics if this is how they function. On principle, if I buy a cosmetic (mount or outfit) then I would like to feel like I own it and can use it freely for all time on all characters. Restricting it to a single character feels pointless and the logic behind "making characters unique" doesn't adequately justify making STORE ITEMS restricted. I am 100% onboard with in-game EARNED cosmetics to be unique to your character...but if I spend real money on something then I don't want to have to buy it multiple times if I love it enough to use it on multiple characters. ESPECIALLY MOUNTS.

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.

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.

Ramirez

Gw2 is a fashion war game, that is the endgame, ashes Will have much more to Care then cosmetics

Kat_N7

Ramirez wrote: »

Gw2 is a fashion war game, that is the endgame, ashes Will have much more to Care then cosmetics

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.

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