Please stop the FOMO cosmetic shop

I would like to ask you to bring back every cosmetic item from your monthly store, since the beginning.
All that effort into making these cosmetics and only a fraction of players are buying them.
Don't you want more players to enjoy your work.
Just to be clear I can afford these cosmetics even monthly, but I don't buy them on principle.
All I'm asking is that you bring them back and make them permanent additions to the store.
If you do this I will in time buy every single cosmetics you have made, making you thousands from myself alone.
I've been talking to alot of people about this and they agree.
You would make so much money, people aren't buying them because they hate FOMO.
But separate from the financial benefits of this, think of the players.
As gamers yourselves can you honestly say you'd be happy with this if you were a gamer/customer.
Ideally we would be able to earn everything, but at least let us buy it without a time limit.

Imagine you're a new player and you see someone on a cool mount, you ask them how they got and they explain that you need to clear a raid and in that raid there is a secret quest that leads to getting this mount.
Or.. " I bought it you can't it now"
Or " I logged in on this day and we all got one, you can't get it now".
The latter shuts the player down and gives them nothing to look forward to, nothing to trive towards.

Please consider it.

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Talents

I would like to ask you to bring back every cosmetic item from your monthly store, since the beginning.

Pretty sure that's a good way for Intrepid to get sued seeing as they've stated numerous times the previous cosmetics are one and done.

George_Black

I have bought only one all these years. Why are you freaking out?

bloodprophet

Steven like many of us likes exclusive items. Not everyone needs everything.

CROW3

Huh - has it been a month already? We can almost start setting out clocks by these requests.

No, btw. Contrary to popular belief FOMO is a consumer sentiment not a merchant responsibility.

bloodprophet

https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Cosmetics#Cosmetic_store
Cash shop cosmetics will offer a diverse selection of unique looks.[8]

I want to incentivize purchase in the cosmetic shop for sustainability of what expansions we have intended, since we are not a box cost. I want to incentivize purchase by offering limited items: limited time, limited quantity, so you have confidence that when you purchase them, they won't be offered later on in some other way.[5] – Steven Sharif

tautau

I remember for a while in L2 they had this solo 25x25 maze you could do once a day for reward coins. I ground through it daily for several months to get a hat, an academic mortar board hat, maybe the only one on my server.

Then that Thanksgiving they gave hundreds of them away in a pumpkin popping event, and you saw them all over and I was unhappy.

Moral of this story: If someone gets a rare item, don't make it common! So sorry @Grimseethe , I don't like your idea, not at all.

Asgerr

Please stop the "please stop the cosmetic shop" threads.

All of you misconstrue what FOMO is, what the cash-shop is for and why it runs the way it does, and no new ideas or intelligent perspectives are added to the conversation that has been had hundreds of time before.

If you can't cope, go see a therapist and stop whining. You can't have it all. Suck it up. Disappear.

Caeryl

The content produced for the cosmetic shop would still be developed because all of these assets are being created for use in the game world, not for the purpose of selling them.

They’re being offered as incentives to continue financial support, but if they weren’t, you’d still be seeing these styles on creatures and NPCs. They’re not meant to be widespread looks.

Are the prices steep? Somewhat, unfortunately most of these are about market-standard prices on digital products, which are high on their own. Are they FOMO? Yes, they qualify as using a fear-of-missing-out tactic, but since the intent is that they be rare and not commonly seen, it can sort of be justified.

Varkun

Here are my reasons for not buying monthly cosmetics. There are going to be many cosmetic items, mounts, ships, pets, and other various items that we will achieve through our adventures through Verra that will look every bit as good as the purchased items, this has been quoted by Steven many times with some examples being shown. Though they do not actually want to show too many of the in-game achievable items as they want them to be a surprise.

From my personal perspective if I see someone with a purchased cosmetic I will barely give it a second glance however if I see something that was achieved in-game and I like it I will be curious as to how to obtain it myself. thus there is a drive to play the game and obtain said item/cosmetic. Perhaps I am just immune to FOMO as I honestly do not feel like I am missing out on anything.

Don't get me wrong the monthly cosmetics look fantastic but I always tell myself there will be just as good if not better in-game achievable items and those mean far more to me than any cosmetic I opened my wallet for.

Caeryl

Varkun wrote: »

Don't get me wrong the monthly cosmetics look fantastic but I always tell myself there will be just as good if not better in-game achievable items and those mean far more to me than any cosmetic I opened my wallet for.

This especially. While it’ll be cool to look like a mob from a specific dungeon in a specific node during a specific event (just think of the very purple edgy stuff we got one month last year), that’s really just a RP flavor. It doesn’t indicate skill, or a time investment, just money spent at a specific time. In game where you either pay up or look like trash, I’d be concerned about the cosmetics, but I trust the team to make a game that they themselves would enjoy playing, and half the fun of playing is showing off what you’ve accomplished.

Grimseethe

Very sad replies, thanks for reading anyway, just a shame I couldn't explain the importance of what I'm asking well enough.

Taleof2Cities

"Just found out about Ashes and the monthly pre-order cosmetics ... but the one I really wanted already passed."

"Maybe if I post a FOMO rant in the forums they'll let me buy it ... despite the pre-order rulesets in place."

Marcet

I don't care about the FOMO just stop the whole cosmetic shop

Songcaller

Kids stealing other kids enjoyment? While you might not like the shop or the cosmetics, it is a pleasure to some. Even though we have had issues around actual applications for skins and stuff, when you want to detach and drift on imagination you can look through the catalogue and see a vibrant society with many facets, even if some skins are seen more than others.

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Sylvanar

Marcet wrote: »

I don't care about the FOMO just stop the whole cosmetic shop

You can talk to Steven about funding the game, couple hundred millions ought to suffice for some time.

Caww

By the time the game propagates out to a full server you will have no idea or care where everyone's cosmetics came from, just that you like what you are sporting.

P.S. Let the rest of us help pay for the game, really, its OK, just sit back and relax, we'll take it from here, no problem.

truelyyy

Get over yourself, this is the way it is, the entitlement over these cosmetics is wild. Sure we missed out on cosmetics because we didn't know about the game earlier but it's for the benefit of the early backers.

JustVine

The lack of sympathy towards people who just want to throw money at the company and hate the fact that they already missed out on great designs is both not shocking at all and should totally be expected of the community at this point.

'Not the merchants responsibility', sure. Steven is perfectly free to let money keep sitting on the table and lock content that would otherwise sell more units by a permanent time gate long term. On the other hand nothing is stopping him from dropping the current policy for future releases. It's a customers right to tell a company when they are being idiots leaving money on the table for literally no reason other than 'tradition'. Free trade and bad approaches to discourse go both ways in a customer/seller relationship.

Sawtooth

I still haven’t seen anything that I felt like I had to have. I liked that Owl mount, but with my planned character being a Vek it didn’t seem like a great fit. I really hope they get away from dwarves and elves for a bit and give us some great Orc centric designs.

I suppose it would suck to miss something you really wanted, but something else will come out that’s awesome too. Just look at spud. One of their best pets yet.

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