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SlammerSC2
Profile Joined April 2013
77 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-03-01 20:17:26
March 01 2015 20:14 GMT
#81
pls no.
StatixEx
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United Kingdom779 Posts
March 04 2015 14:42 GMT
#82
im not sure why people pay for cosmetic, im sure this has been said by a thousand people before me, it just makes no sense unless i had some hand in the creation. i saw this in league, u pay for how ur dude looks . . . but wai?

when ur in the game ur barely lookin at it anyway only the obj ur goin for, i write this after observing my play in sc and in lol, dota heros, in fact all my games, im not looking at the main guy just the part in front or the bit im going for . . .odd behavior by the human race throwing money at something ur not actally looking at . . .well at least this is what it is like for me anyway


Nezgar
Profile Joined December 2012
Germany535 Posts
March 04 2015 18:56 GMT
#83
I don't see a problem with having skins, voicepacks, UI redesigns and/or small campaign packs for real money if the game itself is free to play. I usually tend to spend more money on games that I really like when they give me the option to kinda set my own price by buying additional cosmetic stuff.
When a game gives me hundreds or thousands of entertaining hours over many years I don't see why I wouldn't spend more than 50 bucks on it. I have spend less money on Starcraft than I have spend on basically all f2p games that I played thus far. When I enjoy something for a long period of time I will spend an appropriate amount of money on it - if I have the option to do so.

In order to not impede this on other players of professional gameplay you can just make them not show up when using the team-color option (green-red-yellow). This way you can play with the standard skins and watch replays or observe with the custom skins in place. Those individual player/team colors work the same way, why not skins and stuff aswell?

Professional players could show their fans their individual skins without it having any consequences on their play. Everything that sets players apart from each other or somehow show their personality would be very beneficial imho.

There're so many ways to do this and make stupid amounts of money from it while also making the game more accessible to players who don't like to spend a lot of money upfront on a game that they're not sure of whether they like it or not. Integrate a proper streaming service into the game client to watch tournaments together while being able to chat in your custom lobby/chat. So many awesome things one could do with the game, makes me wonder why they haven't done that yet. Dota and CS:GO are such great examples of this done well, sad to see Blizzard sleeping in this regard.
Fenrack
Profile Joined December 2011
Germany2 Posts
March 05 2015 21:22 GMT
#84
"Only if the game were free-to-play"
I already bought the game 3 times (1 Vanilla WoL, 1 WoL CE, 1 HotS CE) so where is the point of Starcraft as a free to play thing? Money has been already put into it.
I say no, to payment for skins, but i would do it anyways probably... I dont know.
y0su
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Finland7871 Posts
March 06 2015 14:54 GMT
#85
to be fair, I don't pay (or wouldn't) for skins in any other games
MidnightZL
Profile Joined August 2012
Sweden203 Posts
March 08 2015 01:03 GMT
#86
On December 17 2014 05:16 ProMeTheus112 wrote:
money milking is pretty ridiculous already with this game,
it's not even getting much better than it ever was over 3 "expansions" with weak story being told very slowly in holywood avatar-style - all looks little depth - and lesser gameplay complexity than Starcraft
after attempts to destroy Starcraft's pro competitive scene and taking over the rights of broadcasting for this iteration, there will be no more feeding the blizzard cadaver from me (I stopped buying anything after Diablo 3)

not that I'm against the idea of having custom unit skins for a competitive RTS game, that might not be a bad idea as long as it doesn't interfere with legibility of gameplay and with artistic coherence of units & races



I dunno what game u talked about but it was not sc2 thats for sure!
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lohdon
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
170 Posts
March 10 2015 16:42 GMT
#87
Can we have a new poll question please otherwise Sc2 confirmed dead.
Daimai
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Sweden762 Posts
March 15 2015 18:58 GMT
#88
I would literally throw money at Blizz if they made some cool skins for protoss.
To pray is to accept defeat.
Dwayn
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany949 Posts
March 17 2015 15:56 GMT
#89
depends on the price
xenoZhang
Profile Joined July 2012
China142 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-03-18 04:05:25
March 18 2015 04:02 GMT
#90
I would totally buy a banshee skin if available

ps, ive never pay for any skins in any other games.
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Dumbledore
Profile Joined April 2011
Sweden725 Posts
March 22 2015 07:49 GMT
#91
I wouldnt pay for skins in any game
Have a nice day ;)
GnoM
Profile Joined September 2011
Norway145 Posts
March 26 2015 00:09 GMT
#92
These pay for skins things is stupid.
But I guess it's an easy way to make money.
Just look at cs:go.
Stetkaer
Profile Joined June 2013
Denmark23 Posts
March 28 2015 01:41 GMT
#93
Skins is ok. But give an option to turn off skins for those that don't like them, me included.
WaZuP
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Germany487 Posts
March 31 2015 11:30 GMT
#94
Played Dota 2 for Years now but never actually bought any Skin and not planning on doing so, but since u can drop em by just playing and trade em afterwards for something you like its kinda cool. I like the approach of achieving something ingame and getting it payment seems meh but im also kinda cheap ) maybe in LOTV for a Lurker skin because its the most badass unit theres ever been
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