11-30-2011, 09:14 PM
I find it a bit shady to charge for things like race/class unlocks but agree with things like character slots which don't put you at a disadvantage if you don't buy but allow you to fuck around more if you do.
Cosmetic seems to be a pretty huge market seeing how many vanity pets and mounts and shit you see in WOW (not to mention that they make a good penny with the ability to change race/name/faction/sex/etc.... which I think is destructive for a server community, but hey once you implemented cross faction pvp AND pve instances, what does server community mean anymore)...
I suppose the cosmetic shit shouldn't be surprising, people were willing to spend hours upon hours of stupid shit to get achievements for vanity pets or titles, so its obviously easy to milk them for money.
Cosmetic seems to be a pretty huge market seeing how many vanity pets and mounts and shit you see in WOW (not to mention that they make a good penny with the ability to change race/name/faction/sex/etc.... which I think is destructive for a server community, but hey once you implemented cross faction pvp AND pve instances, what does server community mean anymore)...
I suppose the cosmetic shit shouldn't be surprising, people were willing to spend hours upon hours of stupid shit to get achievements for vanity pets or titles, so its obviously easy to milk them for money.