Will you be making armor skins that look like CLOTHING? Ordinary, sitting around town, non-combat type clothing? This is the only way I can see to remedy the current Town Clothes fiasco.
Some people wanted to wear their Town Clothing into battle, so you took the rollout of the Wardrobe as an opportunity to please this portion of your player base. Well even those people are disappointed with your implementation. Various pieces of oddball headgear seem to be about the only Town Clothing that made the transition into armor skins. This is obviously not what people wanted when they asked to wear their Town Clothes into Battle. Not just hats.
Curtis Johnson assured us that “people will be surprised by how many pieces have become armor compatible”. He was right. I was very surprised, and even more appalled. The vast majority of my Town Clothes are now Tonics. Tonics can NOT be used in battle. Tonics can barely be used as Town Clothes. Nobody wins with this implementation. I will not rehash everything that is wrong with Tonics, because it has been discussed ad nauseum already in thousands of other posts dating back to before the Patch. I have yet to see anyone who thinks this was a good idea. Suffice it to say:
Tonics Don’t Work!
The remaining Town Clothing was transformed into “Outfits”. I guess this is what Curtis was referring to when he said many pieces of our Town Clothing would become armor compatible? The problems with this have also been discussed to death. It is only a slight step up from Tonics. You can wear them into battle, and you can dye them in a limited fashion. But once again, I’m sure this is not what the people who wanted to wear Town Clothes into battle were looking for.
IN CONCLUSION (Or TL;DR if you prefer) the only way I see for you to fix this situation is to make armor skins that look like clothing. You know that is what the people who wanted to wear Town Clothes into battle were asking for in the first place, but you decided to take shortcuts instead.
We know it is a lot more work for you to remake 3 sets of everything for Light, Medium, and Heavy armor, but you made your own bed. Now you’ve got to lie in it. We aren’t unreasonable. We will wait. Perhaps not silently, but we will wait.
And above all, please COMMUNICATE with us. The sooner the better. A wound becomes harder to heal the longer it goes untreated. We have heard very little over the past 2 weeks except “Gem refunds” which is a mollifying gesture, not a solution. Fess up. TELL US you made a mistake. People will forgive you. If you let us simmer in our anger, you will only lose trust and customers. You pretty much sacrificed the Town Clothes aficionados for the people who wanted to wear their Town Clothes into battle, and in the process you have not even given them what they wanted. Let us know that you plan to make things right again.
(edited by Hamfast.8719)
The ‘treatment’ of town-clothing is a joke.
Now having to explain this last point hurts a little as i thought you were all grown up developers and knew your stuff but it seems you need an explanation like this:
Actions and Items in games have a ‘feel’ connected to them. An attack can feel heavy or light. Crippling/Slow effects can be physically felt by players. These are all things i am sure you know, but it seems like you do not know that how you activate something also changes the feel of something. So if i activate my Town-Cloth by a spell or even worse a tonic they are no longer my cloth they are just an illusion, i could just as well be naked, i do not feel any sense of ownership or connection.
So NO i will not make Clothing-skins. I would love to try to get a refund for my glasses, my drill but it seems the glasses are no longer in the black lion store so if the system changes back there is no way to get them again… way to got to force your players Anet.
The crazy thing about this is that they went through all the hassle to remove the Town-Cloth slots and change everything to tonics when they could have just cashed in on all the people who want to change their 2nd look as well.
I invite you to yell your disappointment on this topic
before a dev decides to pass by and close your thread. Also, it’ll make the thread I linked bump a bit in the list, and since it’s an official one with thousands of views, it’ll help us letting them know how jaded we are.
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