149849-raid-set-recolour-coming-to-the-store

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Here are two likely possibilities that explain the move: 1. Carbine are being lazy 2. Carbine are prioritizing other things You would choose #1 without any further evidence? Sounds like cynicism to me. :P And didn't someone else offer the third possibility that these are on the store because they were intended for RMT and Carbine are creating new armour for RMT instead? That's a pretty strong contrary to the idea of laziness.

Tons of people don't have this suit, so they're not putting it on the store because it's a recolour, they're doing it to increase accessibility of a fancy cosmetic design and to make money. ;)


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During my brief stint in WoW me and a couple of guildies would 2-4 man some of the older operations just to farm some of the looks and mounts. So, yes, in certain cases it's an incentive to do old content. Personally I prefer at level content.

I am hopeful that this is a one-time incident. It looks like these were the Tier 3 raid set's look. Aside from the helmet there are some minor model changes so It is a bit more than a simple reskin. Relatively speaking I'd call that "lazy" as a chase set due to its resemblance to the T1 and T2 sets. However, given the assumption that they're the former T3 sets they now have a set of unused assets and needed to do something with them. Personally I would have rather them offered as part of the some high-end casual content. Perhaps as drops from the Arcterra event or the VoA instance assuming they've got the same challenge level as OC-1 did. But coming to that realization, I'm not over-bothered that they're releasing them on the store. While I consider texture-only changes to be lazy, I feel that it would have been justified for the zBoard had they offered one as part of the event and a reskin in the market.

Edited February 25, 2016 by PlasmaJohn


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Let's look at the rest of your post:

There's nothing in here acknowledging the origin of these armor designs. In fact, you excuse the "laziness" with a small team size, despite team size not being an issue when the armor sets were designed before the game released. And the rest of your post is a subjective aside about how they have better things to sell us. Anecdotally, I personally know more medic raiders that are glad that this variant is being made available than people who are offended by it being sold.

Lazy would have been using these for RMT, or not bothering to make them available at all. Selling these on the cash shop isn't lazy, it means the artists that would have been designing new sets for the cash shop can instead work on new designs for RMT and PvP Season 3. It is them literally prioritizing content over cash shop, and what more can we ask of F2P devs? The only lazy thing in all this is people that call them recolors because they haven't taken the time to see the differences (unique helms are a big deal, since that is what shows up in the portraits, and distinct coloring/textures in undyeable areas also set the variants apart).

Except these were made before the game was even released, so that shouldn't be a concern. Additionally, they aren't recolors, but you clearly don't care about that since its been mentioned multiple times already.

Depending on the timing of it all, they have 6 to 12 new armor designs to do that won't be on the cash shop (RMT and PvP Season 3). They also had 6 sets that were rotting because they decided to give us something new for raid tier 3. I don't know about you, but I am absolutely fine with them selling the six rotting sets if it frees up the artists to do good work on the twelve that will be available as in game rewards.

If you understand the source of these sets then you'll see that it is a one time thing.


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You do realize the money is to help *cupcake*ing make new content right, fine, lets all be whiny bitches and stop paying right now because some slighly reskinned raid models are being sold "RMT has been cancelled" "Drop 8 as a whole has been delayed" "Wildstar will be shutting down by the end of 2016 because this community are people with the most easily bunched panties in the universe" RIFT recently tightened f2p players rights, and has gear in the store...AND THEY STILL COMPLAIN LESS THAN US... @op I don't mind this, its not just a recolor, its an unused version of the medic set back from before launch, TT said something like that on a stream regarding the raid sets all having slightly different unused versions. Even if it is just a recolor...so what? GA is *cupcake*ing pugged now guys, it's not some massive achievement to have that gear. DS is sometimes pugged as well for the first few bosses.


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