Yep. The people who whined the loudest about their prestigious armor (eh…) are getting what they want, meanwhile the paying customers who didn’t do anything wrong are now getting screwed. I’m hoping the new armor will look nice, but I have a hard time keeping my hopes up. They should just unlock the current cultural sets so everyone can have fun (give me that one ritualist-looking Charr headdress for my human necro, please) and then make new exclusive ones for each of the races. Fanciness and bragging rights restored!
I’m really hoping the next skin doesn’t suck, because I will fight to get my money back otherwise. They can’t just bait and switch paying customers to make bystanders happy.
It looked so good on my female Asuran ele too. :\ Hardly anything looks nice on them.
I am a paying customer who has spent a good deal of money on the gem store items…I just also happened to get the normal T3. But 10 dollars is about a cheap meal’s worth, and the time I put into getting an inferior armor set (awful awful non-exotic stats) and then putting it on celestial gear is worth a lot more than 10 bucks. If ANet wasn’t going to refund half of the 120 gold I spent on the normal T3 – not to mention make other cultural armors obtainable so everyone can mix and match the look they want for a high end burger and fries price – then this is the right move to keep getting my money, as a show of good faith to people who did put in the time to get it and to show they aren’t promoting a double standard. I do hope you can get your original skins and whatever else back though.
I own the standard Human T3 as well. I also own T3 for Sylvari and Asura. I put work into the game and earned the gold for my sets, transmuted them onto exotics accordingly, and still did not get upset when I saw the T3 all fiery on the gemstore. I would not be upset if another other cultural armor appeared there either. I don’t care about exclusivity and have always hated that I can’t get the cool Charr headdress with the sweet Norn bustle. When I pay money for something I expect the product I paid for.
If we’re going to talk food here … this is like placing an order for a shiny juicy burger and having it put in front of me to look at, and then having it switched out for mystery meat and not getting a refund of the money I worked my RL job for. I have a set amount of money I allow myself to spend on videogames, and live on a budgeted income. Acquiring gold in-game isn’t that difficult with the variety of farms available, and playing the market with skins. Buying gems is a special once-in-a-while deal for me, and now they’re losing my willingness to put money in because I am getting burned for being a paying customer in this scenario.
