The title sounds kitten, I know! I’m really just surprised items like this aren’t better marketed to be perfectly honest.
C’mon. You can do better than this ANet. Admittedly you’re not the only MMO developer to put things in their cash shop without a proper preview available anywhere, which always makes me scratch my head that you’re running a multi-million dollar business, based on the selling on digital products, you’re happy to put in the effort to make cool things like this, but you leave it to the players to make a video of what it actually plays like.
The profit you make on selling just one Marriner’s Horn (as a digital item, we’re talking a 100% profit) is more than enough to pay someone in your office, to knock out a quick preview video so we can see what it sounds like, and how it controls.
I’m a musician myself and love the in-game instruments so far, but I can’t justify 800 Gems on an item, a Musical Instrument, no less, when I don’t know what it sounds like.
Shame really. I’m sure it’ll sell to folks with Gems to burn, I’m not denying that, but its a bit of a waste of effort if you don’t sell it properly to people on the fence, who would probably really really enjoy it, like myself.
Feel free to prove me wrong by posting or linking something forum.
Much Love,
Mal