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Cash shop item to NOT see other players costumes and cosmetics
Volgaris
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I'm a player that values the aesthetic progression of my character and of those around me. I feel costumes are immersion breaking, and with the vast amount of cosmetics and costumes already in the game I think it's going to taint the beautiful world being created. I understand people like to see these things and will pay for it. Can I at least get an option to NOT see all the costumes and cosmetics?? I'd be more than willing to pay for it in the cash shop. If it's even possible, I have no idea.
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The funny thing is that people don't even know if cash shop cosmetics will be the best looking gear in game, and I have a feeling that the biggest chads won't wear cash shop cosmetics which can only be worn as a set, but instead transmogs of the best looking gear obtainable by playing the game.
T1 just you see it
T2 you and the target sees it
T3 You the the target and everyone else
T4 You the and everyone else, but NOT the target
Lets make this happen!
Not best looking, but highest quality
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In other games, or in this one? Because from what we've seen so far, there hasn't been anything that wouldn't fall into the thematic category. I'm guessing you're thinking about silly things you see in eastern MMOs like chicken suits and such.
Can you give some examples of what you've seen so far in this game that you would consider immersion breaking? I think it would help get a general baseline for what is "too much" for you.
Only the people who bought the ability to disable cosmetics wouldn't see them on themselves or others. You'd still see and others that wanted to see them would still see them. Not sure me seeing your dressed up character is important to you. I'd much rather see the gear you've acquired. But fear not, this or anything like it has a snowballs chance in hel of actually happening lol.
You can literally turn that around.
"Not sure me seeing your dressed up character is important to you".
"Not sure you not seeing my dressed up character is important to me".
Its important to many. Just look at MOBAs for example.
If players just wanted to look nice, all they'd have to do is exchange the files in the game folder and they could look however the fuck they want.
That's not what its about though. People want others to see your nice outfits, just like IRL.
Whether they are paid for or earned ingame doesn't matter in that regard.
That is stupid no, if someone buys a product you re going to see it, you carnet paying money to hide things. You are simply trying to create a reason for people to not buy cosmetics because you haven't come to terms with how things are now with games.
No matter what you do or think that will never change companies you have no money or influence. Nor ability to change peoples mind that spend hundreds of thousand dollars on games to stop.
If you go out to the club, you buy a bomb outfit to look good for yourself, but also to look good for other's or to impress. If people could press a button and make you look basic, what would be the point of you spending money and buying a dope outfit to go out in? Same applies here.
Lets say, you buy this thing.
then you go RP (immersion is big thing among roleplayers for sure so... )
My RP outfit / aesthetic outfit : light armor (leather or kind of) with really "natural" visuals, (some flower or foliage there and there on outfit) => friend of nature, lover of forest
My real outfit / technocal outfit : still leather, but more classic leather armor, in a way it seems more to duellist/swashbuckler.
How we dress IRL speaks for us before we open mouth. so does for our characters.
In this example, you will first think about a character who like the beautiful fight etc, while i am just a kind of hippie or anykind of nature lovers who don't care about "fight aesthetic" . . .
Also, you begins to consider that the cash shop aesthetic will break your immersion because some reason due to the design of this specific stuff... how can you be sure that drop items won't have also kind of design you could find "not so logic/realist/immersion friendly".
Without even speaking about "patchwerk aesthetic" due to having items for stats... but items from different aesthetic design.
Your solution generates, i think, a bigger problem, AND doesn't even really solve the problem you have.
IMO this should be a whaling competition.
You can select what other players are wearing for everyone to see (based on the Costumes you own) as long as you have spent more money on the cash shop than they did. If you have spent less, then they can choose what you wear based on the costumes they own.
Ha! Like a costume wand?