Guild Wars 2

Have you ever seen what looked like at first glance to be the perfect sword. Then you notice a weird little branch, or some sorta weirdly placed dinglydooper thing. It makes it less cool. It could of been 100 percent cool but that weird design choice…. maybe you will buy it, and maybe you will move on to the next hot item when the time comes.

I have a theory: Asthetic Items aren’t made as awesome as they could be so you are never completely satisfied. That way you continue to spend money on items because you’re not all that attached to the skin you bought.

Maybe this isn’t always the case, but I just feel there are several items that have some little dinglely doodad, that just takes and awesome item and puts a little terd on it, so that it wont be the last skin you ever buy.

Anybody else feel this way?

I’m pretty certain that “intentionally do a bad job” is something that would be extremely challenging to convince the artists, developers, modelers, etc, to do. It definitely wouldn’t be a good company to work at if they demanded that.

I think it’s much more likely that your aesthetic is just simpler than most people, in the sense that you like less decoration than many, so while most folks think “ooh, cute widgetty bit”, you think “ugh, why spoil the clean lines?”

One man’s ugly is another man’s beauty. I think your theory is as misplaced as the spelling of the word that could be considered rude.

Without an example, I don’t know if you’re talking about an actual mistake or a decoration that you just don’t find attractive.

Djinn.9245:

Without an example, I don’t know if you’re talking about an actual mistake or a decoration that you just don’t find attractive.

Sorry I meant non-mistakes, intentional design

I attribute the weirdly placed dinglydooper things to be gratuitous attempts at ostentation and ornate design. That would make them attempts to enhance the attractiveness of items rather than detract. I observe that trend in multiple MMO’s which feature cosmetics. WoW shoulder armor comes to mind. Why anyone would think that ostentatious is better is a mystery to me, but I am apparently unlike the mainstream in that regard — or at least unlike what the average MMO graphics designer thinks are mainstream tastes.

A much more realistic result of an intentionally flawed aesthetic design is lower sales, as people are often quite regarding before buying stuff. I very much doubt it’s A-net’s goal to sell less gem items.