DUST Search - Ouch, that price tag on the SKINs

Vyzion Eyri wrote:

Knightshade Belladonna wrote:

Vyzion Eyri wrote:

-shrug- EVE just released their new SKIN system too, and their skins only apply to a single ship out of dozens, prices range from under to over $10.

I have three points.

Firstly, the fact that we managed 5 pages complaining about SKIN price only seems to tell CCP we want them real badly; ie. if they do drop the price it won't be by much. If no-one said anything about SKINS, if sales were low and it looked like no one even cared, then they'd probably drop prices by half. In theory.

Secondly, I wouldn't mind if they left skins at $10, and once AURUM item trading is enabled, rich kids could sell skins for ISK. Sounds like a solid way to create a DUST 514 'PLEX'.

Oh, and by the way, does anyone remember the fact that, oh, I don't know, we get AUR for free now, as well as the free AUR from the upcoming event (if you're hardcore enough)?

you got to be hardcore to complete 5 challenges??

I do that in my first 2 games

Point proven. Free AUR everywhere, people worrying about $10 skins. Grind $5 worth, spend $5 on the other half.

You guys are like a broken record with this "CPM material" business xD Let it go


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Aeon Amadi Ahrendee Inc. Negative-Feedback 9774	Posted - 2015.04.28 11:49:00 - [1] - Quote $10 for a skin that only works on (race)(suit size)? I dunno man, might as well just buy a BPO and get the added benefit of never having to spend ISK on it again. Although, I guess if it works for all power-levels it works out... But, eeesh. Scouts especially get boned because they only get the one role for their suit size. Should lower the price on those at the very least, imo, from a value stand-point. You guys are like a broken record with this "CPM material" business xD Let it go
Aeon Amadi Ahrendee Inc. Negative-Feedback 9774	Posted - 2015.04.28 11:52:00 - [2] - Quote I-Shayz-I wrote: They're 20k? I thought they were going to be 10k? ($5) 19,800 AURUM, so yeah. You guys are like a broken record with this "CPM material" business xD Let it go
Aeon Amadi Ahrendee Inc. Negative-Feedback 9776	Posted - 2015.04.28 12:00:00 - [3] - Quote ROTFL wrote: wow..... seriously? Your playing a FREE game! Servers are expensive to maintain! Your worse then the rioters in Maryland.. Ill be buying atleast 1 as a sign of gratitude for the update. Crying on forum make you look like a cheap basturd who wants everything for free.... Mhmm. Totally not why I bought one and all (money is of no consequence for me) but yanno, keep on telling yourself that, broseph. Or you could be like everyone else before you and recognize that the value isn't as great as a full-fledged BPO and the price should reasonably be cheaper because it is, after all, a -cosmetic- and not a functional piece of equipment. And please don't chalk up something as serious as the Baltimore riots as this... It's ******* disgusting. You guys are like a broken record with this "CPM material" business xD Let it go
Aeon Amadi Ahrendee Inc. Negative-Feedback 9780	Posted - 2015.04.28 12:24:00 - [4] - Quote ResistanceGTA wrote: ROTFL wrote: wow..... seriously? Your playing a FREE game! Servers are expensive to maintain! Your worse then the rioters in Maryland.. Ill be buying atleast 1 as a sign of gratitude for the update. Crying on forum make you look like a cheap basturd who wants everything for free.... F2P, yea, sure, still doesn't mean you charge a decent chunk of change for something just because you can.. There is value in lower price items when it comes to customization.. If they were in the 5 buck range I would have bought a few for my Minmatar suits, but 1 for $10 is too steep, especially when they are as limited as the skins we have are. If you wanted to pimp out every suit for a race, it'd cost $30, which is kinda crazy.. Loyalty and stupidity are so very close to one another on the spectrum.. Well, technically it's more like $120 because the skin only applies to a single race and single suit size. Soooo you'd need to get one skin for: Amarr Heavy Amarr Medium Amarr Light Caldari Heavy Caldari Medium Caldari Light Gallente Heavy Gallente Medium Gallente Light Minmatar Heavy Minmatar Medium Minmatar Light Like, for a cosmetic? That's insane, lol. It'd be worth it if it applied to -ALL- suit sizes but just one? Pssh, way too steep. You guys are like a broken record with this "CPM material" business xD Let it go
Aeon Amadi Ahrendee Inc. Negative-Feedback 9780	Posted - 2015.04.28 12:27:00 - [5] - Quote CCP Rattati wrote: I consider the primary utility of my colored bpo's the actual look, which is the only reason I bought multiple bpo's in the first place. Having the ability to confer that look to any suitable dropsuit is be far a bigger utility than a bpo. We may certainly offer skins at different price points later once our authoring pipeline has more velocity. So do a survey and ask the playerbase if they bought their BPOs for Fashion or Function. If they say Function, well, then you'll have your answer You guys are like a broken record with this "CPM material" business xD Let it go
Aeon Amadi Ahrendee Inc. Negative-Feedback 9781	Posted - 2015.04.28 12:33:00 - [6] - Quote CCP Rattati wrote: Aeon Amadi wrote: CCP Rattati wrote: I consider the primary utility of my colored bpo's the actual look, which is the only reason I bought multiple bpo's in the first place. Having the ability to confer that look to any suitable dropsuit is be far a bigger utility than a bpo. We may certainly offer skins at different price points later once our authoring pipeline has more velocity. So do a survey and ask the playerbase if they bought their BPOs for Fashion or Function. If they say Function, well, then you'll have your answer So a players Quafe, when he has 3 Dren's, is function? Hardly. We will see. Well, he's not exactly making a fashion statement with the other two Dren's Assault Rifle is he O.o? You guys are like a broken record with this "CPM material" business xD Let it go
Aeon Amadi Ahrendee Inc. Negative-Feedback 9781	Posted - 2015.04.28 12:39:00 - [7] - Quote Brush Master wrote: I would agree that the pricing is too high for me to even consider it. Personally I would reduce skin prices over time, so as you make a new one it is xx price as the new and shiny price but those in the market a while go down. Also do weekly 50% off skin sales, it works. I guess this a good idea, kinda what LoL does. You guys are like a broken record with this "CPM material" business xD Let it go
Aeon Amadi Ahrendee Inc. Negative-Feedback 9794	Posted - 2015.04.28 15:27:00 - [8] - Quote Lady MDK wrote: It seems this company doesn't learn.. first monaclegate now skingate... I'd pay a few quid max per skin or maybe a tenner for a pack but the default ones will do me now thanks. I'm sure ccp will watch what we do rather than what we say though. So do the right thing Mercs. Eh, I bought one because I was excited for the patch but nothing's really changed. Acquisition is kinda broke right now and there's no other new content besides stuff that should have been in the game since day one. You guys are like a broken record with this "CPM material" business xD Let it go
Aeon Amadi Ahrendee Inc. Negative-Feedback 9827	Posted - 2015.04.29 04:14:00 - [9] - Quote Booby Tuesdays wrote: Am I the only one that thinks the prices are where they should be? You can use it on basic, advanced, and proto suits. A standard BPO saves you what, 3k ISK? 3,000 ISK * GêP You guys are like a broken record with this "CPM material" business xD Let it go
Aeon Amadi Ahrendee Inc. Negative-Feedback 9831	Posted - 2015.04.29 05:37:00 - [10] - Quote Booby Tuesdays wrote: Aeon Amadi wrote: Booby Tuesdays wrote: Am I the only one that thinks the prices are where they should be? You can use it on basic, advanced, and proto suits. A standard BPO saves you what, 3k ISK? 3,000 ISK * GêP And how often do you actually run a basic suit? I'll bet you would run that SKIN way more often on your advanced and proto suits than you ever would have run a standard BPO. Bang for the buck is equal, imho. Am I going to pay $10? Nope. Waiting for faction LP/ISK SKINs. Me, personally? Not that often, because I don't like the way BPO's operate (no risk) and I have more than enough funding to recover from the loss of a few prototype suits. I also want a competitive edge against my opponents and am a firm believer in the total annihilation of power levels (no more standard/advanced/proto - just one tier) and the removal of BPO's all together (apart from starter suits that have limited modification). In fact, only time I ever use BPO's is when I've run out of fits mid-battle and don't feel like getting kicked out of the match trying to restock them all (I use blended fits with aurum gear that must be restocked individually). However, I do know a lot of people who only use BPO's in Pub-matches and make a killing doing so. Because it's not -just- 3,000 ISK that you're saving, it's the fact that you're losing absolutely nothing and banking anywhere from 100,000 - 500,000 ISK every ten-to-twenty minute game. PC Clone-generation netted about 8,000,000/day if I remember correctly, which for a corporation with a single district is about 500,000 ISK per person for a 16 man team. That being said, you make more, individually, using BPO's than you would have from PC unless you did what Kain Spero and the gang did and just monopolize the entirety of PC and lock down the districts to prove a point. Sure, PC was broken, but now that it is virtually impossible to lock a district (PC list view) and you can't make ISK gains from simply selling clones, the real economy crasher is BPOs. You guys are like a broken record with this "CPM material" business xD Let it go

Aeon Amadi Ahrendee Inc. Negative-Feedback 9833	Posted - 2015.04.29 06:31:00 - [11] - Quote Knightshade Belladonna wrote: removal of bpo and suit tiers.. good luck with that Yeah, they'll never do it, but they'll also never explain why we have tiers in the first place. You guys are like a broken record with this "CPM material" business xD Let it go
Aeon Amadi Ahrendee Inc. Negative-Feedback 9866	Posted - 2015.04.30 00:58:00 - [12] - Quote Vyzion Eyri wrote: Knightshade Belladonna wrote: Vyzion Eyri wrote: -shrug- EVE just released their new SKIN system too, and their skins only apply to a single ship out of dozens, prices range from under to over $10. I have three points. Firstly, the fact that we managed 5 pages complaining about SKIN price only seems to tell CCP we want them real badly; ie. if they do drop the price it won't be by much. If no-one said anything about SKINS, if sales were low and it looked like no one even cared, then they'd probably drop prices by half. In theory. Secondly, I wouldn't mind if they left skins at $10, and once AURUM item trading is enabled, rich kids could sell skins for ISK. Sounds like a solid way to create a DUST 514 'PLEX'. Oh, and by the way, does anyone remember the fact that, oh, I don't know, we get AUR for free now, as well as the free AUR from the upcoming event (if you're hardcore enough)? you got to be hardcore to complete 5 challenges?? I do that in my first 2 games Point proven. Free AUR everywhere, people worrying about $10 skins. Grind $5 worth, spend $5 on the other half. You realize that half of that Aurum cost is about 400 days of logging in, right? Dust 514 probably won't even be around that long /sarcasm You guys are like a broken record with this "CPM material" business xD Let it go