Post by Ludullu on 2022-08-05 18:05:43
I meant that what if Intrepid would have a direct nomenclature of "these are the "true" cosmetics and if you collect them all through in-game means - you've won the "collect all cosmetics in the game" part of the game". Would you see store cosmetics as p2w then? Because at that point you'd be going directly against game's own definition of "winnable part of the game".We have not received permission from Iridianny to share the quoted post.
I mean, they released it because they realized there was money in it. They themselves thought it'd be dumb to release that version because it was "inferior" to the current-at-the-time one. And afaik most people liked vanilla because of its overall gameplay and not just because the p2w was gone. Though, funny thing is, Blizz then went on to introduce a direct p2w (though some see it as p4c) feature in the form of level skip, and afaik quite a lot of people bought it, which again proves that the majority of players doesn't really care for p2w side of the game. They only care about the gameplay.We have not received permission from Iridianny to share the quoted post.
As that someone (who care about numbers) I can fully tell you that I never cared for how I looked. I only cared about the numbers. If a piece of gear that looked like a piece of shit gave me better stats - I'd wear that piece of shit proudly because everyone around me would know that I have the better stats.We have not received permission from Iridianny to share the quoted post.
And I have despised and hated transmog for as long as I've known of its existence, exactly because it stands in the way of me showing my stats rather than some piece of pixelclump on my character.
And as for "everyone playing dress up", yes, everyone does because that's how the games have been for the past forever. Not a single game dared to go completely against the industry standard of "the best gameplay gear should also look the best" (well outside of the sleezy games that want to suck you dry of your irl money).
And you know which parallel one could draw from that? The parallel of Intrepid not wanting to go against the entire industry that has decided to sell cosmetics. Now they obviously have to stick true to their promise of "in-game best gear will look better than any store cosmetic", but we can only know if they did on release, so arguing about that particular point would be useless rn.