I’m a bit behind the curve here, I’m playing a druid and just got level 58 last night. I like to mess around with the appearance of my armor, but I noticed there is very few options available, even counting “looks” I haven’t encountered yet. I just took a look at the cash shop, and it’s just packed full of ultra cool looking armors. I generally don’t mind cosmetic micro transactions, but it only makes sense to me in a game like PoE, where the developers are funded solely by the cash shop.

In terms of Blizzard, is this just a case of blind greed, as in, we can’t get any gear that looks super cool unless it’s the case shop? I know there are some uniques that probably have special models, but I doubt anyone would be decked head to toe in uniques due to their hard coded special legendary effects. It’s rubs me the wrong way when a developer purposely hamstrings something in game play in order to push you towards cash shop. Blizzard didn’t give me D4 for free, so being shitty with armor sets not being cool unless you buy them is scum bag behavior. I won’t buy anything from the cash shop, equipping that crap would feel hollow having only dropped cash, instead of beating some tough challenge.

So what’s everyone’s thoughts on this? Do armor sets later on get cooler looking?

  • alexnikoloas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I am very against the comsetics, just because of the cost of the base game.

    That being said, if the cosmetics were way cheaper (max $5 for a full set), I might consider some of them. There is at least one for the Barb that I like, but due to how zoomed out the game is, it really doesn’t ever make sense to buy cosmetics at any price.

    They aren’t going after the average player for the cosmetics, they are going for whales and people with no impulse control.

    • Geek_King@lemmy.worldOP
      11·
      1 year ago

      I think that’s my take too, it just comes off as gross and greedy, especially the pricing of the cosmetic armor. I think 5 bucks for a set, sure, maybe, but the prices they’re actually asking makes it a big fat hard no from me.