(Sugg) Skin Unlock & Wardrobe Changes
THE COST & BENEFITS
This system would eliminate transmutation charges. Instead, the appearance tabs unlocks would be purchasable via gem store. Each tab unlock, would allow you to save one appearance, which you can then access and switch between them as mentioned above. Best part about this, it leaves your armor in tact and you don’t have to destroy/overwrite anything to gain a new look.
The skin unlocks would remain account bound, but appearance tabs can be either character or account bound (I would prefer if they remained account bound just for the convenience). Depending on how this was done, the price of tabs would vary. If tabs were account bound, you can charge a lot more per tab, perhaps a flat rate of 400-500 gems? In this case however, you would have to make sure the appearances themselves could be saved to each individual character. If this system was made character bound, then the appearance tab would have to be considerably cheaper. They may start at say, 10 gems for your first unlock and progressively get more expensive until they reach a price cap, which in this case could be around 100 gems?
What would really top this system, is if the first slot is made free, so that people can experiment a bit and new accounts can have at least one appearance while lvling.
I’m well aware that there’s been a lot of complaining about the current system and having to keep using trans charges each time you want to change your appearance and having to overwrite the existing one. There’s resentment by some people of having to keep using trans charges on bought skins, where it makes them feel like they never truly own them, but are only renting them.
With this system, you can have 20, 40, 60 tabs, the sky is the limit (as you can copy the same interface infinitely) and perhaps Anet’s storage capacity, but i think people would be much happier buying appearance slots than trans charges. I don’t even think it’s the cost of them, but rather the principle of it. I don’t have the figures Anet does, but I suspect they make little money from trans charges. I for one have never had to buy one, but despite that, i would be happy to purchase appearance tabs for my characters if implemented along the lines as described above.This system i believe would please majority of players having ability to switch between looks at click of a mouse would please just about anyone i think and and Anet could make some extra money for their hard work. In my eyes, its a win, win for everyone.
Well sorry about this lengthy post. If you’ve come this far, thanks for reading. If you like the idea, support it, comment on it, or make your own suggestions if you so desire.
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