Yeah it's starting to get quite crazy with this, look what fromsoft did. But as long as people are willing to throw their money away it will happen.
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Yeah it's starting to get quite crazy with this, look what fromsoft did. But as long as people are willing to throw their money away it will happen.
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That does indeed look more reasonable.
Indeed, if FD deems, the revenue from these skins is too low, i'm sure they'll look at their pricing policy and adjust accordingly.
In the meantime it's up to the individual to keep their wallet closed, if they feel the asking price is too high, or wait for a sale.
I am not into skins at all, but may consider other items from the shop at some point.
When/If i do, i'll see if i find the asking price to be worth the product....same as with any other purchases i make really.
Nothing wrong with the OP though, he states an opinion and we're free to agree or disagree.
For what it's worth, 3-5 £ for a paint job does sound expensive to me too.
At least these skins don't give the buyers any ingame advantage. Which makes them infinitely more tolerable than....
...a $18.000 "Completionist Package", just to give an example. There, I said it. Hit me with the hate, I can take it!
...a $18.000 "Completionist Package", just to give an example. There, I said it. Hit me with the hate, I can take it!
At least these skins don't give the buyers any ingame advantage. Which makes them infinitely more tolerable than....
...a $18.000 "Completionist Package", just to give an example. There, I said it. Hit me with the hate, I can take it!
No reason to hit you with hate.
Pricing discussion aside, i'm sure we're all happy that FD only sells cosmetic items and not actual game changing stuff.
And I was trying so hard.
Oh absolutely. I remember they were thinking about selling credits with real money, which I really hope they will never do. I find that what planetside 2 is doing (selling you guns and cosmetics) is very much borderline, but at least those weapons are all 1) unlockable with reasonable amounts of time and 2) mostly sidegrades, not just straight upgrades.
I can't see this working in Elite, because the way weapons work in ED is definitely a progression of upgrades, not sidegrades.
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I just bought two skins (before I saw this thread) - a pirate skin for my Python, and a Gold Pharaoh for my Exploration Asp.
I'm happy to add a little more cash to FD's pockets.
I'm happy to add a little more cash to FD's pockets.
Some people truly do amaze me.
The bottom line is... IT'S OPTIONAL. Sooner this OPTIONAL method of supporting the game than the COMPULSORY subscription model. If you want to prettify your fleet, damn well pay for it. Buy one a month if £4 a shot is too much for you. Would you still be complaining as loudly if you had to pay upwards of £9.99 per month for a subscription.
Some skins are expensive. But give an impact to a skin in the game. Give a meaning to be an owner of your paint. When we have a car, we do not change the skin every week ...
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All these skins, and still nothing for the Anaconda...
The Anaconda asks a lot of paint. The skins will be very expensive for the Anaconda
The Anaconda asks a lot of paint. The skins will be very expensive for the Anaconda
If it costs more than getting my car cleaned I am going to pull my KS pledge - FD you have been warned
Correct me if I am wrong, but each ship has a texture applied to it during programming. This texture is X colour.
To apply a paint job, you are just tweaking X colour to something else, then correcting any artefacts when rendering. More complex designs such as flags or similar will take longer
If you can do this for all the other ships, I'm not sure why you can't do it for the Anaconda also? Even a few simple changes in colour would be better than nothing...
To apply a paint job, you are just tweaking X colour to something else, then correcting any artefacts when rendering. More complex designs such as flags or similar will take longer
If you can do this for all the other ships, I'm not sure why you can't do it for the Anaconda also? Even a few simple changes in colour would be better than nothing...
My only disappointment with the current sale is that it doesn't include skins for any ship I'm currently flying or planning to fly. I'd gladly pay £1.50 for a single Clipper or Vulture skin, but they only have the £5 Vibrant packs.
If it costs more than getting my car cleaned I am going to pull my KS pledge - FD you have been warned
Perhaps sell the car to avoid the question ?
ED does not use a simple bitmap for it's textures. They are vectorised (which future proofs them for high resolutions like 4k) afaik. You can test this by looking closely at the writing on the engines of ships. It is still perfectly clear even close up
You never 'correct artifacts when rendering' on any 3d texture. There are many layers of work to producing the correct colours, lighting and reflection to make sure it all looks correct and like it is made of a suitably hard metalic material.
Skins take a lot more work than your average game and they don't look pixelated (pixellated?) at close range any resolution.
If it were as simple as sliding the colour mixers we would already have 1000's of skins.
The Anaconda will get it's paint jobs (eventually). Let's hope sooner rather than later *waves cc at fd
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There is the debug camera
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