[SC] Cosmetic items

(If you don't like cosmetic items, I'm pretty shure that this topic is not for you )

I haven't made any topics in English forum before so i think now it's time to make one. First of all I have to apologize my poor English skills and I really hope that it won't disturb too much.

As we have seen, Darkorbit have made some interesting updates which haven't affected to game ballance. And with updates I mean Cosmetic items, including ship, drone and PET designs. These cosmetics are really good way to make some profit (which is the number 1 priority in every single company) and these items are also allowing to let players customize their own ships better than before.

This all started at the end of last year (during halloween event), when darkorbit published many halloween themed drone designs. In that time players could get these designs either playing the event gate, buying them with uridium or real money. I also remember that during halloween event, silver drone designs cost only 50k uridium which was pretty decent prize for cosmetics.

After 9 months we have received even more cosmetic items, which are... lets say... a little bit overpriced.

And with overpiced i dont mean 5$ champion designs (which is not that much IMO), but c'mon, who is going to buy a cosmetic drone design, which is worth of 280.000 uridium? And yes, I know that we don't have to buy these items and these cosmetics should stay really unique, but let's be honest: visually champion drone designs looks really bad, they don't have any particle effects and last of all, they cost even more than a goliath skill design, which is pretty funny

All in all I mean that if cosmetics are more expensive than a goliath design, they should be much more than a dirty football with a jet engine attached to it. Players do like visual effects and one really good example is halloween colored drone designs: they looked pretty cool but those are also having cool smoke effects while flying.

If player is having a set of drone designs which are worth almost 3.000.000 uridium, designs should do and be much more. One cool example would be like If player is flying with a full set of champion drone design, it should give some visual effects or maybe sound effects (when player shoots somebody down, he hears cheering sound from the game(just like a player makes a goal in a real football game!)).

These are only examples which you should ignore. I just really hope that bigpoint starts to be more "creative" with cosmetics. At the moment they look boring and won't add anything new (why should I have 10 champion drone designs if I have already 200+ other cosmetic designs?) I have played many games which are including lots of cosmetic items. One good example includes Ultimate skins, which are really expensive but worth of every cent. Ultimate skins looks insanely cool, have new particle and sound effects etc.

I heared that mimesis and tartarus will offer some cool 3d animations if player has full set of enigma/mirage or phantom/chimera designs. This is what i like to hear and what i want. I just really hope to see these new ships soon and test these animations by myself

In the end I want to ask: what do you, lovely reader, want to see from a really expensive cosmetic design? And what about mid- priced designs (50.000 u)? I think really expensive designs should offer much more cool stuff than what darkorbit is offering right now.

 

I have no problem with cosmetic items as a whole - if any game can make a good chunk of their revenue from cosmetic items is normally a good thing for the game as a whole.

However I agree with pretty much everything you've said here.

I think that these very expensive drone designs are weird, I guess it's done to create exclusivity. Problem is people can't show off drone designs, most experienced players have drones turned off and new players wouldn't understand why such designs are 'important'.
A big reason why cosmetics are popular is because it allows people to show off - when people win the Jackpot Arena, why do they always have on the Jackpot Winner title? It's not he biggest, it's not the coolest sounding but it is something to show off. Drone designs don't really let people show off.

On the other hand if there was a ship design on sale for 2.8mil uridium, could even imagine it being a skin for the surgeon perhaps, then I think it would be something which a lot more people would be tempted to buy. They could use it everyday like they could with the drone designs but at the same time they could show it off.


So that links in to your end question: from expensive cosmetics I would want them to be ship designs and with some sort of effect. If it was a design for the Solace that was golden then why not change the solace ability to be green and gold when activated, why not have a green and gold aura around the ship or something. Stuff like that would really make it stand out.

For something around 50k I wouldn't expect much more than a shape and a colour if it were a drone design.

 

Lets take the customization one step further and sell them in sets (Ship, Drone, and PET) and have them be one set price and to allow for different prices have different sets do different things (sound effects, animations, abilities, etc). Most people only see the ship and PET and thus these are the most effective means of generating interest in the Cosmetic Designs.

I also agree that it is an easy way of generating revenue for the game that does not change the balance of the game, however, making the prices so that it is only CASH paying players that can afford them I have to question why they are given a Uridium price tag, sell them for CASH ONLY (yes I know I just offended a bunch of people that want to buy MHH Uridium and buy them at 1/3rd the price), but this is a revenue source so lets make revenue. We also have an issue with the fact we can not buy the customizations in 1 transaction, WHY can we not have a single SPECIAL tab that everything is in (that is specially offered) and allow us to make one transaction out of the purchase (these would include the Cosmetics, Log Disks, Booty Keys, HM-7 Trade Drone, anything added to the SHOP for Cash Purchase). This would also allow people to Click one Tab and see everything that is on SALE at one time instead of checking multiple areas of the SHOP.

 

I like ship customizing but the price of the new drones are more money than the surgeon design is, and i won the surgeon in the event. Also you could get the surgeon by purchasing 330,000 uri, why not give a set of ten drones with the purchase of uridium but seriously it is 3 times what the surgeon was. So another question would be when is this going to end? Are they just trying to see how far they can go before players start leaving the game. If i am asked these questions i would say i already support DO by buying uridium and also purchase some cool stuff i like to try and have it all but to do this is just asking for way too much money. And why can't we win these drone designs in the gg event weekend that just passed? Anyways that's my opinion please post yours. Enjoy

 

i agree with u hands up i pay for box boubler rebate prem.all the money they have made out of people for useless skins put it into getting shut of the lockers/scripts regards unhappy player at the mo