I see tons of topics and players that complain about skins that are not attractive and then we have a cash shop coming into the game, because AGS needs more money, which I totally understand. I need them myself.
But maybe first approach should be doing some really good skins and see how it goes out? I’m almost sure we can make enough $$ from buying skins, then cash shop with p2w stuff is not needed.
I myself would love to buy some nice skin, even for 50 euros. Problem that skins don’t have exclusive outlook and that is the whole reason to buy one - to look different.
For example, aquamarine on weapon gives such a nice ice animation, is it so hard to make one shinny skin? I don’ t suggest making New World this typical eastern MMORPG where everything is blinky shinny… But bit of that stuff is attractive and different, that is why people buy these things.
I’d like nice skins. there’s very little range on the weapon skins, like one for each weapon?
I’d like the option to buy individual armor piece skins for a lower price rather than having to get the whole set. Slight volume discount if you do get the set.
I would even like the option to buy current in-game item appearances as skins. I currently have “town clothes” that I like the look of but then I have to change when I’m actually doing something.
I’d like to add that the item shop is probably doing badly because it’s a bit crap with few options. I do understand that AGS has more important issues to deal with right now but if they do put a team on it, I recommend researching Fortnite’s success in this area. I’m not saying I want the skins to look like the Fortnite ones but tactics like limited availability, collaboration with content creators etc could work here too.
Star Wars Galaxies had Image Designers, which was a crafting class that could redesign your character for you, depending on how much skill they had. I’d love to see something like that implemented here.
You got musket, they gonna be really happy with a cowboy like skin, bows and spears, that’ll really like a kinda modern leather overcoat look, also a nice heavy/chainmail armor look will also be appealing to many players.
Talk about shit takes, you are happy to spam the forums with them rather than just go play a game with the monetization strategy you like. I love cash shops and cosmetics in multiplayer games.
The current cash shop is pretty bad. Very few people I know of that like any of the armour skins in there. The weapon skins are also kinda unimaginative and samey. I don’t mind there being dyes in there but why only a handful at a time on limited timers? And where are the long requested female outfits? King this, Count that, Lord somebody else…You do have female customers too you know.
Also I don’t know why that 1 person seems to think mtx is evil and new…it is neither. I have been playing mmorpg games for over 20 years and think I have seen it (and bought it) in every single game I have played in some form or another. It should not exclude good looking hard to achieve gear in game, but there is nothing bad about having it.
Would love to buy a skin that allows me to avoid bugs honestly. That would be my first purchase. Until the large majority of those are fixed I dont think skins will save them
Any reason why? As far as I can tell, cosmetic MTX don’t unbalance gameplay, they simply provide a revenue stream for the company and something fun for players to spend their money on, if they want. I’d rather buy virtual products these days than fill my rl house with more crap.
