Post by Ludullu on 2022-08-05 22:50:33
Imo seeing dudes with lavish clothes together with dudes in rags spawning at the starting portal would be a much more immersive event (lore-wise) than just everyone wearing the same exact piece of potato sack.
That being said, I'd definitely love if Intrepid stopped selling pre-order cosmetics right around beta 1-2. Mainly because betas will be a short-time thing so the hype for the game will most likely be at its peak. And people will start buying into the game, and if the cosmetics are still attached to the beta access, then a toooon of people will be able to buy full costumes before release.
Right now, no matter how big the community seems, we're probably in the <5% of the overall release playerbase. And out of all of us there's probably only a fraction of people who have some kind of costume. And if we account for all the potential servers across the entire world, the chances to see too many costumed players on the day of the release are probably fairly low rn.
But when the hype gets even bigger and if people are still able to buy into the game with packages that have costumes - the probability of seeing costumes on release definitely goes way up, at which point there might be a bit too many of those rich fuckers around.
Now Intrepid might've already accounted for that in their package pricings/contents. If the packages don't change, then by the time beta1 rolls around, people would only be able to get a small skin (which you need a gear piece to stick on) and a pet skin (you gotta get a pet first), so the majority of people won't even be able to get the costumes which would keep the overall amount of them fairly low on release. Which, to me, would be completely fine and immersive.
That being said, I'd definitely love if Intrepid stopped selling pre-order cosmetics right around beta 1-2. Mainly because betas will be a short-time thing so the hype for the game will most likely be at its peak. And people will start buying into the game, and if the cosmetics are still attached to the beta access, then a toooon of people will be able to buy full costumes before release.
Right now, no matter how big the community seems, we're probably in the <5% of the overall release playerbase. And out of all of us there's probably only a fraction of people who have some kind of costume. And if we account for all the potential servers across the entire world, the chances to see too many costumed players on the day of the release are probably fairly low rn.
But when the hype gets even bigger and if people are still able to buy into the game with packages that have costumes - the probability of seeing costumes on release definitely goes way up, at which point there might be a bit too many of those rich fuckers around.
Now Intrepid might've already accounted for that in their package pricings/contents. If the packages don't change, then by the time beta1 rolls around, people would only be able to get a small skin (which you need a gear piece to stick on) and a pet skin (you gotta get a pet first), so the majority of people won't even be able to get the costumes which would keep the overall amount of them fairly low on release. Which, to me, would be completely fine and immersive.
move along, disregard this post