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CCP Terminus
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Posted - 2015.04.01 17:55:32 -
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Hey Everyone,
The new SKIN system should be available for testing. While there will be an in depth blog going over how everything works, we're looking to see if things seem intuitive, and looking for obvious bugs.
Everything is still at early stages now, but we've seeded some SKINs on the market and look forward to you guys testing it out. More aspects of the feature will be added as we get closer to the release date.
Thanks for reading, and testing things out! |
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CCP Terminus
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Posted - 2015.04.01 21:02:54 -
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Benny Ohu wrote:i don't play on the test server but i wanted to talk about delivery in the store. please consider selling skins as packages in addition to selling individual skins
packages could be based on ship class (buy all the megathron skins in one click), colour scheme (buy all the interbus skins) or release (buy all the skins released in the latest wave or patch)
i can see clothing bundles in the shop so i figure you've probably got skin bundles in mind anyway. i can imagine buying a bundle for my favourite ships - i'm a huge sucker for the cosmetics bundles sold in f2p shooter warframe
Bundles are definitely a thing we'll be looking at doing, and we will make sure they are thematic and make sense. |
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CCP Terminus
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Posted - 2015.04.05 21:09:38 -
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epicurus ataraxia wrote:Lena Lazair wrote:Phoenix Jones wrote: The basis for most micro transactions is to keep them as micro transactions. Nobody will go out and buy a 30 dollar skin.
Something like that. Can pick single options, or pick tons of skins.
Meh... I would totally pay $30 for a permanent skin, provided it was awesome and for a ship I use. I've spent more than that for cosmetics in other games. I agree that not EVERY skin should be $30, but a wide range of prices/exclusivity is fine by me. It is interesting to see the "outliers" who are willing to pay such large amounts of money for such things. It will be even more interesting to see if CCP decide that targeting such purchasers makes business sense. It didn't go down well before, and is unlikely to now. Hopefully marketing have either learned or have been replaced after all of this time. If CCP wish to have a decent income, and a satisfied customer base, considering the main income they have comes from regular, repeat subscribers and customers, they will be best served by pricing these items at a "trivial" cost point, where everyone basically buys them. We will see.
Like Lena Lazair pointed out previously, there were many reasons for monocle gate occuring, some of which being high price points on everything, the cosmetics targeted towards a non-gameplay portion of the game, and even the general anger at the Incarna expansion.
We would like to avoid retreading that path, so we are working on a plan for the pricing system which can help avoid this. I would like to restate that every single SKIN will be available on the in-game market for ISK if a player is willing to sell it. We know some of our player base dislikes paying for anything beyond the subscription (or in some cases even the subscription) and that is a completely valid viewpoint to take, which is why we've made sure it is an option for players to get everything in the game through the market. |
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CCP Terminus
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Posted - 2015.04.05 23:50:05 -
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Irregessa wrote:CCP FoxFour wrote:Daniel Fergus wrote:It would be cool if we could preview the skins before we buy them.
I also hope that at some point we get kaalakiota skins. You can do that now from the fitting screen, you can select skins you don't own and view them right there. We hope to also add this to the 3D preview of ships later If you own that ship. I would love to see what the avatar looks like with the Khanid skin, but not owning an avatar I can't.
So what CCP Foxfor was saying is that we hope to add the same features in the Fitting screen to the 3D Preview screen. This means you will be able to preview SKINs for ships you don't own, and even buy them (or link to the market) right from that screen if you wish.
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CCP Terminus
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Posted - 2015.04.08 10:58:28 -
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Herman Menderchuck wrote:Sorry if this has been asked already, but will ALL existing ship skin BPCs/skinned ships be converted to PERMANENT licenses?
I saw the timed licenses on SiSi and was wondering if the current BPC skin drops from the explo sites will be timed since if they are not, those sites will get pointeless real quick.
All BPCs from the NES Store will become an amount of permanent Licenses equal to the runs left on the BPC.
All skinned ships that come from the NES and a list of special edition ships will become a base ship and a SKIN License. The full list will be in the dev blog, will only really affect special edition ships that don't have a stats difference from the base ship, other than the Scorpion Ishukone Watch which will also be converted over.
BPC skin drops will become Time Limited Licenses. We have no plans to sell time limited SKIN Licenses but we do want to use them for in-game drops.
Ships which are created in-game such as the ones made from dropped skin BPCs (4 destroyers, 4 battlecruisers) will become the base ship and you'll be given at least 1 time-limited version of the SKIN License.
Licenses given to you under this system will be put in your redeeming queue.
Hope that helps!
@CCP_Terminus // Game Designer // Team Size Matters
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CCP Terminus
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Posted - 2015.04.08 13:43:17 -
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Yongtau Naskingar wrote:CCP Terminus wrote:All skinned ships that come from the NES and a list of special edition ships will become a base ship and a SKIN License. Does that include the various Quafe skins?
The newer ones yes. You'll still need to have the ship or BPC somewhere when we convert it. Some of the older Quafe industrials with Quafe bays won't be converted over, but ships like the Quafe Tristan, Quafe Catalyst, Quafe Vexor, Quafe Megathron, and Quafe Dominix definitely will be.
@CCP_Terminus // Game Designer // Team Size Matters
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CCP Terminus
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Posted - 2015.04.08 15:43:00 -
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I am still confused, are the licenses of any particular skin only good for one ship type? Ex: if I have a BP now for a Interbus Moros skin, when release on Tq would that just become an interbus skin license for any T1 I sit in? [/quote]
So your InterBus Moros Edition BPC will turn in to a Moros InterBus SKIN (Permanent) which is a License that will be placed in your redeeming queue. The License only affects the Moros in this case, and all Licenses in the initial release will only affect one ship, though there is no technical limitation to why we can't have it affect multiple ships in the future.
@CCP_Terminus // Game Designer // Team Size Matters
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