Transmog stuff from the Live

Hearing the stream, Steven mentioned that Transmog might likely to happen in the future.

Will this only affect the Person holding gear or Everyone sees the "Skin" that the person is using?

Cause in my opinion it is a bad idea that other person sees the "skin" since it would be misleading in the combat. Andd.. also the Chat reacted wildly when this topic was mentioned XD

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Dreoh

maouw wrote: »

FutureCultLeader wrote: »

Apologies for the bump, but this something I also really don't like about AoC.

I feel like the Dev's have buttered the cash shop up, saying that things are limited and so on, but at the moment there seems to already be an abundance in variety of cosmetic gear. It's quite literally the only thing that brings me to be concerned about the game and it's future, as so many MMO's have become heavily reliant on it and AoC already seems to be toeing that line.

I'd be totally fine if the cash shop stopped at mount skins, house skins and so on. But armor appearance slots is crossing a line I'm not happy crossing, and quite frankly I'd be totally fine in paying for a base game package to avoid this being in the game at all. Name plate indicators or no, it's quite frankly a very sly method of circumventing a clear and present problem in the current monetization model.

I don't share this concern.
Appearances are surface level. As long as cosmetics don't get stats I'm fine.

People who care about immersion and aesthetics will disagree with you.

Your line of thought leads to things like how GW2 is now full of sparkly women with angel wings and rainbow auras.

maouw

Dreoh wrote: »

maouw wrote: »

FutureCultLeader wrote: »

Apologies for the bump, but this something I also really don't like about AoC.

I feel like the Dev's have buttered the cash shop up, saying that things are limited and so on, but at the moment there seems to already be an abundance in variety of cosmetic gear. It's quite literally the only thing that brings me to be concerned about the game and it's future, as so many MMO's have become heavily reliant on it and AoC already seems to be toeing that line.

I'd be totally fine if the cash shop stopped at mount skins, house skins and so on. But armor appearance slots is crossing a line I'm not happy crossing, and quite frankly I'd be totally fine in paying for a base game package to avoid this being in the game at all. Name plate indicators or no, it's quite frankly a very sly method of circumventing a clear and present problem in the current monetization model.

I don't share this concern.
Appearances are surface level. As long as cosmetics don't get stats I'm fine.

People who care about immersion and aesthetics will disagree with you.

Your line of thought leads to things like how GW2 is now full of sparkly women with angel wings and rainbow auras.

Yeah I get that.

The point is: we have different "crossing a line I'm not happy crossing" when it comes to cosmetics.

Personally, I prefer the 2 extremes of: cosmetics all the way, or no cosmetics at all. To me, when cosmetics are made to match the theme of the world - base equipment loses its charm (I feel this especially in PoE, where there are cosmetics that look like they could be legitimate items in the game), whereas when they are obviously otherworldly it preserves the base equipment ecosystem.

Biccus

Right so on cosmetics.. They look great but they give me a bad feeling. Character skins in online games is very much expected and cool, I just don't really like the concept in the MMO space. It definitely takes away from the transmog potentials. It also takes away the feeling that players are creating the world I'm seeing.

On transmogs.. I don't mind transmogs at all and I love the ability to be able to change what your gear looks like. My sole concern with it in AoC is from what I understand they are leaning towards just paying an NPC gold to change the look of your gear but I could be wrong. What I WANT to see is crafted transmogs. I know it adds a lot power to the crafters again but I would prefer items to have appearance slots you could add a (0 stat) cosmetic item to. This game is meant to be all about the players, after all.

How do these crafters learn cosmetic recipes? Easy! Dismantling the item and "research" it's appearance instead of dismantling for materials. A choice.

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