Costumes bound to character.

What is the point of costumes being bound to characters they've been equipped to?
Do you even understand the logic of this, I can only login with one character at the time... so that means that I can only view only one costume at any given time so HOW IS IT BOUND TO A TOON THAT NOBODY CAN SEE >!< LIKE W00T !?!?!? The fact that you require me to equip it again, every time I switch toon is just a pathetic marketing practice, trying to force us to buy costumes for each character. Well, know this... I don't mind spending money on the game but that's overkill. Make the costumes available to each character all the time without the requirement to UNEQUIOPIN IT ON ANOTHER TOON or this is the last costume I bought from you, and all you'll get from me from now on is stash money. Fix it otherwise I'm not buying, really ugly marketing practice.

P.S. So what I have a Celestial outfit, you want to outfit another toon with it. Buy another Celestial outfit, yeah sure like hell I will.

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BMFGJackal wrote:

What is the point of costumes being bound to characters they've been equipped to?
Do you even understand the logic of this, I can only login with one character at the time... so that means that I can only view only one costume at any given time so HOW IS IT BOUND TO A TOON THAT NOBODY CAN SEE >!< LIKE W00T !?!?!? The fact that you require me to equip it again, every time I switch toon is just a pathetic marketing practice, trying to force us to buy costumes for each character. Well, know this... I don't mind spending money on the game but that's overkill. Make the costumes available to each character all the time without the requirement to UNEQUIOPIN IT ON ANOTHER TOON or this is the last costume I bought from you, and all you'll get from me from now on is stash money. Fix it otherwise I'm not buying, really ugly marketing practice.

if they made a mtx bound to a character after application, they would be much cheaper.

current state of you being able to reequip it to other chars made them more expensive.

you don't wanna know the prices if you could apply them to several chars at the same time.

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BMFGJackal wrote:

P.S. So what I have a Celestial outfit, you want to outfit another toon with it. Buy another Celestial outfit, yeah sure like hell I will.

You just need to change clothes. :)


YW

No it would not make them cheaper.... where's logic in that.
It would make completely no difference, other than we wouldn't have to spend time on equipping the costume every time you decide to play a different tune. I don't say that I want to make the costumes account bound so that you get the one costume on every time you log in. Say you have a Celestial and you have a toon A, toon B, toon C, and toon D you equip celestial on toon A and later on toon B.... without removing it from toon A. Just let us choose a costume for each toon but without removing it on the other. I login on toon C and D I wear no costume because I chose none, but say I want the same on toon C, and D. Then why can't I choose it for both of them. Instead, requip every time, go through all the silly confirmations.... basically a lot of hustle for no reason... it's not like I can login two toons and use the costume twice at the same time, what is the point in that. You just waste our time... or it's just nasty marketing practice. It's just really inconvenient.

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BMFGJackal wrote:

No it would not make them cheaper.... where's logic in that.

You are aware that GGG is setting the price according to how much value they give the items, right ?


And are you aware that this value is directly related to how those Mtx can be used ?

Unfortunately for you, in this case, convenience has a price.

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only thing that sets the price is how shiny it is and how much you want it

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If you feel entitled to get more than what you paid for, then .... too bad I guess.
I'm not saying that this is necessarily bad feedback, just pointing out that the purchase fits the prices, and that if it was more convenient, it would likely just be ... more expensive, which is why it won't just change imo.

I suppose it might come down to what one thinks GGG's target market is for their wearable MTX (or at least perhaps the higher priced items). Are they intending to sell using a mass-market/commodity level of pricing, or are they intending to sell using luxury/premium level pricing (and the price reflects support for the game perhaps even more so than a logical price for pixels). If GGG is pursuing the former course, then I think that there is lots of room to critique their pricing or lack of features at the current price levels. But my sense (based only on reading the Forums, I am a relatively recent arrival) is that GGG has at least historically, chosen the latter strategy: premium pricing aimed at those wanting to show support. The good news is that you can just buy Stash Tabs which provides GGG with Revenue but involves a lot less luxury premium. The bad news is that if there is some wearable MTX that suits your fancy, you may have to swim with the large sea-going mammals in order to obtain it.

I think that there is room to critique GGG's pricing even if it is luxury based, but the arguments would be based on Monopoly Profits (what level of pricing generates the most revenue over time) as opposed to "fairness". Or perhaps GGG has decided to use a Robin Hood like strategy of "taxing the rich" in order to let others play for less.

So looping back to OP's original post, I thought that they left enough room to claim that they were making a logical pricing argument as opposed to a fuzzy "fairness" argument (alleged Path of Entitlement).

Enough said.
IMO it wouldn't lose them any money,
just like I doubt it earns them a lot if anything.
Basically, even if you had money I doubt you'd be mad enough to buy the same costume twice just so you don't have to reequip it every time. There is maybe like 1% of people that would maybe actually do it. More it would make the costumes more appalling overall if you wouldn't have to re-equip them, hence better value for money = better sales.

P.S. Get more than you paid for?!?! What are you on about mate come down from the path of exile planet, the value of these costumes is purely hypothetical, and out of the blue moon set by GGG to whatever they like, and so that it covers whatever they paid to the artists. Mostly based purely on how shiny they are, they have no practical use so the value is purely hypothetical.