[Suggestion] Personality Animation Sets

Greetings

I would like to see Personality Animation Sets in the game.
What do i mean by this?

Personality Animation Sets for me would mean, that you can unlock (by playing the game) or buy (from the Cosmetic Shop) a whole set of purely cosmetic animations for your Character.
These Animation Sets would give us the option to adjust our Characters behavior to our liking and make them more the way we imagined them.
Maybe at some point in the life of your character an event happens that could change your Character's personality (you unlock a new one), so your character might no longer behave the way they did before and now act in a more confident manner, or maybe they have become more shy? That's up to what Personality Animation Set you pick.

We should be able to switch out Personality Animation Sets just how we can change cosmetic items on our characters.

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Noaani

I was wondering why everything in the thread seemed familiar...

Enigmatic Sage

It sounds like a really good idea but what would be real reasoning for having personalities to be sold opposed to giving them to the player base or having them as achievable?

Reminds me too much of EA with SWTOR shop where the corporate mentality was to prey on people missing out to obtain more money manipulatively.

Cosmetics/Costumes/Skins are one thing but trying to sell additional packages for the full effect of a character immersion has corporate all over it. It starts with minor things, then progressively evolves until you are paying for entire persona's. You would expect it from companies like Activision with Blizzard shop, Bethesda and EA which get a bad rep for preying on their communities with this kind of marketing mentality.

I'm not saying there is anything wrong with paying for cosmetics but if they become too outlandish and people develop that feeling of missing out because they have to pay, the immersion takes a big hit and so do players wallets.

Do not take it personally, I am just not one for cosmetics and shops so I definitely would not be willing to pay for personalities. I would rather represent the items I get and earn in-game.

I understand they have intentions for a cosmetic shop and that potentially worries me on what they're going to sell, how much they're going to sell it for and how the immersion will take a hit if it becomes too theme parkish.

Example:

Many of the cosmetics now are skins to go over your original object. You are not actually getting some of those items, just changing the appearance of it. You may be getting a skin for a mount that goes over your original mount but you are not paying for that mount. Those mounts can be found similarly in appearance in the game just not those exclusive colours in relation themes.

For all we know, you may have to own a similar type of mount in order for that skin to be applied. Considering how mounts will have abilities, they may be required to be paired with similar origin object.

Look at the armour costumes. You can find all those pieces in game, but you just wont be able to put it together in the same colour or appearance as those cosmetics.

Vhaeyne

@Enigmatic Sage

I understand your fear of over monetization and greed. It is a fear I have as well. It seems that I fine myself arguing as someone that is pro cash shop more and more these days. I don't think that I am pro cash shop. I am just extremely anti external funding. I hate dealing with companies that have interests other than their own customers. To me that is the path to ultimate greed. Not the fun Ferengi greed, but the greed that sucks the soul out something people once loved.

Keep in mind the fact that Ashes does not have the mass appeal of WOW, FFXIV, ESO, and GW2. Those games are not centered around risk vs reward. Risk vs reward to the average gamer is a very alienating concept. Ashes is also not going to have a East Asian server (Not going to get into that). These factors mean that Ashes is going to be just as expensive as those games with a lower income. The success of the cash shop is going to be what keeps Intrepid Independent and Ashes alive.

Sadly, I have to defend any reasonable none pay to win microtransactions that doesn't compromise the game play loop. In my opinion any cosmetic falls into that category. The proposed personality animations would defiantly be something that would qualify as a none pay to win microtransaction.

Enigmatic Sage

@Vhaeyne
Understandable! I'm against pay to win as well. Even loot boxes and their RNG disgust me.
To me, this game looks and sounds really good. Would hate to see it ruined by over marketing in the cash shop. I understand the intent without having a box price and getting support via cash shop to make up for those lost profit margins.
To be honest, I would prefer if it did not have a cash shop to save its immersive integrity. But, there is nothing I can do about that, lol. They made their choice!

I just fear the gaming community as a whole is losing its identity where communities are now more focused around playing dress up, transmogs and fashion shows rather than playing the game as it is intended. We all grew up with toys for the most part changing out pieces on them etc.

But hey, there are those who value these parts of games more than core gameplay. Basic target demographic goals for sales. Know your audience.

This is not intended to sound offensive

xVenngeance

Its a very appealing Idea. I'm all for character changes for character progression. I think that's one thing gamers really want in a game that could take years in progression, to feel like their character, their armor, weapons etc change. Adding the way a character "Behaves" just adds another level of depth to the character.

1) Doing full animations for behavior changes would take quite a bit of time for the development team, This is why most companies opt in to emotes and paid emotes as more things come out.
(unlocked walking stances or Idle animations only might be a something that works well too)

2) Perhaps associating job/ titles with centralized emotes specific to them.

ViBunja

Yes, all the sets are needed.

We need sets for classes. Like royalty, knighthood, blacksmiths, tamers, etc.

uao

I dont really care about these idle emotes you need to type out, however having some options to change up your gathering/mount up/combat moves/walking/jumping/running would be extremely awesome.

maouw

and sitting

leg spread
ankle on knee
ankles together
foot tucked behind the ankle
straight legs
crossed legs
fetal position

And for people who complete certain religious questlines:
floating-in-the-air meditation

tautau

Nose picking, examining, flipping at someone...wincing and look of revulsion on target's face...

All leading to a fight at the tavern.

Nagash

maouw wrote: »

and sitting

leg spread
ankle on knee
ankles together
foot tucked behind the ankle
straight legs
crossed legs
fetal position

And for people who complete certain religious questlines:
floating-in-the-air meditation

T poses for dominance

maouw

Nagash wrote: »

maouw wrote: »

and sitting

leg spread
ankle on knee
ankles together
foot tucked behind the ankle
straight legs
crossed legs
fetal position

And for people who complete certain religious questlines:
floating-in-the-air meditation

T poses for dominance

That would actually be scary.
Floating T pose, your head tilted sideways while you stare into people's souls.

AntVictus

So like ESO did? I mean yeah that might be interesting to say the least.

Noaani

I have said a few times in the past that I hope they add amination packs like this, as well as offering up packs to alter the visuals of spells. There needs to be more than just cosmetic clothing for our characters in the shop, imo.

However, these are things that shouldn't be done until launch, imo.

ViBunja

I'd like to add if possible, I'd like sets for combat. I'd hate to see, everyone is using a sword in the same manner, or a hammer. At the very least I'd like to have different sets for sword combat, arrows. I believe Skyrim hard a similar mod for this, for advance combat where bows were held differently and quivers as well, there was a certain style for swords, axes, etc.

Dygz

I think it's basically just augments that will change the appearances of combat - because the devs want us to be able to recognize what abilities (and augments) are being used by being familiar with the associated animations.
I'm pretty sure the devs don't want the animations associated with combat abilities to be obfuscated by cosmetics.

Vhaeyne

ViBunja wrote: »

I'd like to add if possible, I'd like sets for combat. I'd hate to see, everyone is using a sword in the same manner, or a hammer. At the very least I'd like to have different sets for sword combat, arrows. I believe Skyrim hard a similar mod for this, for advance combat where bows were held differently and quivers as well, there was a certain style for swords, axes, etc.

Excellent Idea. I would have been stoked just to have skill cosmetics like path of exile, but different combat animations would be great so long as they don't effect DPS in any way.

Jamation

I think the thing that I saw that peaked my interest the most was having different idle animations. Too many times I'll walk away from my character and then find them doing something stupid like flexing. I'd 100% buy an idle animation set that better fit my character.

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