Transmog is an absolute joke
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Posted Aug 26, 2023, 9:24 PM UTC
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Two tokens is $5 not 25
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Wait, is the cash shop currency 1000 for a dollar? Did I just get the decimal wrong?
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yes
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Ah, well then it's not QUITE as soulless as I thought. Still pretty absurd with the timegating, though.
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i agree the 1% drop rate WITH the time gate is absurd. transmog is not a "must have" though so $2.50 each or 1 a week id be okay with(should be a MUCH higher drop rate because its time gated though), gear sets should not have been pay for though that was a quality of life improvement the game needed
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What I found was that once transmog released, I felt no urgency or impetus to engage it - I talked once to the stylemancer, looked at the huge list of empty (ghosted) icon boxes for skins, and then went back to playing in my typical fashion.
In my case, it doesn't help that the darker dyes don't look sufficiently dark in the game - many of them look bleached out and not worth using.
So ... I suspect that my storage units full of gear are going to stay that way for a while - possibly through the end of the year.
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Oh, yeah. They need to do something other than Luminescent Easter Pastels, for dyes. The dyes in this game are so bad I forget they even exist, for the most part.
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You can salvage/sell the gear now, since they immediately & permanently unlocked their transmog options in the Stylemancer once the Transmog update went Live.
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I haven't been watching threads and comments regarding transmog closely. There haven't been any issues with botched itemIDs/appearnceIDs, or either becoming lost to the void after gear was salvaged or sold?
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Nope, no reports of problems.
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I agree they need more ways to be earnable in game. I was going to come back and play because of transmog until I learn about it.
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I've dropped the token literaally on the first day of the release and then after the weekly reset I also dropped on the first day.
It seems low, but if you do trains on brimstone it's almost a guaranteed.
1 per week is the same as 52 per year which is effectively 10~11 different looks. That's more then enough I'd say.
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Yes finally someone said it. Transmog is a joke.
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To be clear, the way it's handled in this game is a joke. I love costume systems, it's just.. this implementation is embarrassing.
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Transmog is exactly what should be paid content. That is the best way to avoid pay2win situations.
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I bought plenty of costumes. I'm even fine with buying them to save time grinding them out, but the timegates on earning them yourself are absurd.
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Well the more time it takes to earn them, the more the money you spend is worth. Imagine it took 10 hours to farm a token and that token cost $2.50. You are saving a tone of time with that $2.50. If it only took an hour to farm, that $2.50 is not really saving you much time. AGS just wants to make your money go further!
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I'm not talking about the low drop rate, I'm talking about the one-a-week shutoff valve.
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It's a monetization method. If you could farm them endlessly, they would make less money and would monetize something else. It's not supposed to be that you get all you want for free. People have to stop thinking companies making money for making games is bad. Its HOW they make money and cosmetics is perfectly fine.
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I ran sulfur chests for the first time since tokens came out and got a purse in about 20 minutes.
Plus you get 10 tokens for 20,000 marks of fortune. So $2 per token.
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Its like 2 bucks for a transmog token??? How is that grindy if you dont wanna play the game?
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You don't understand. I DO want to play the game. I want to earn them by playing the game. However, they added these stupid timegates so I can't do that, except at an OBSCENELY slow pace. And it's not even a slow pace because the drop rate is low, it's because your ability to progress in that way is switched off after you do it one time, weekly.
I don't consider weekly quests to be timegates. That's extra encouragement to play the game. The cutoff timegates, however, are DISCOURAGEMENTS to playing.
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I have had 9 total so far, I still have 6 unused... I cant see what else I need more for at the moment. You dont just have to run world tour/elite chest runs, you can get them from dungeons too, which is like 6x 1% chances per dungeon, not too bad really. When WOW added them it was wayyyyy harder to get them, not sure how it is because I havent played in years but I dont mind the way it is setup currently. If you wanna get all the transmog stuff right off the bat, you have the option to buy them, or just be patient and earn them along the way.
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Yeah, WoW did it stupidly, too. Warhammer Online's was perfect. Simple, no more or less than it needed to be. If you wanted to use something as a costume, you could just equip it to the costume tab.
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i got 8 tokens from the premium season pass
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dont you get 10 tokens for $25
a armour skin was like 5 pieces for 15 bucks?
so the transmog system is 2 armour skins worth of tokens for less than the cost of 2 armour skins, so a "discount" with more customisation?
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To use things I already got and saved, in-game.
I like how the argument is never "Play the game and get the tokens" because everyone knows how asinine they made that process.
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what?
but it is play the game and get the tokens OR buy some in a game with no subscription that has to make money some how
They made it so you can earn a token once a week in order to keep the value high to incentivise people to buy with real money
If you could farm 50 token in a week there would be no reason to ever buy them.
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I like how you took my "capping it at 1 a week is stupid" to mean "I should be able to get 50 a week"
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Well you seem to have an issue with the cap, so do you specifically have an issue with 1 cap but would be ok with 5?
Cause either was 5 or 50 it devalues the token and decreases the amount of people who would buy it with real money. That was my main point, not the 50 or what ever cap you imagine.
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is it just me or do most complaints about this game boil down to "I want all the rewards with minimal effort and if that isnt the case AGS is stupid"
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If that was your takeaway from what I said, it's a condemnation of wherever you were educated.
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your complaint is about a cap combined with a 1% drop rate?
so you want to either get more per week or get them quicker with say a 20% drop rate
Either way that boils down to you want the same or greater reward with less effort.
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You can say that about the game too...
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We don’t even know if the expansion is going to be free or cost extra. If we get a free expansion, I don’t see these tokens being that big of a deal for them to make extra money, just like the gear sets, even though I wish it was just a free feature. I got 8 from the battlepass and still have 5 left because I got my short shorts and giant hat and I am fine with that. I also get that some people want to unlock everything, but in reality you will never use even half of the transmog items. I bought the game for 40 dollars, if we end up getting all the content for free without being forced to buy expansions I think this is fair. If we have to purchase expansions though, I still would buy it and play it. The game has come a long way from what it used to be.
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Can the mods remove these garbage posts? There’s no legitimacy to this comment. Just negativity and trashing NW. Transmog system is great. Yeah we could use a few more ways to obtain, but you make it sound like this is just the end of the world ha.
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AGS have made their choices. As much as we don't like them they aren't changing now. The dying player base shows what they've achieved with these decisions. They've lost their players trust and support.
BASE CONTENT
- collecting transmog
- 1 stale opr map.
- 3v3
- dungeons which aren't enjoyable
- Wars that few people play and most just log for and log out.
- mindless chest runs
NEW CONTENT
- rehashed kill a mini boss at a portal to drag a couple 100 players back before losing them a week later.
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This is a very emotional take. Lol
IMO I happen to think the transmog system is great. Sure you grind for the gear to unlock the items then you transmog them, but it’s surprisingly not bad.
For the 1% token drop it’s honestly not bad i got mine like 3rd chest in the acid run, and armine drops faster than chest runs. transmog always has been monetized i don’t see why amazon shouldn’t also do that. The regular skins are arguably better than the store bought skins.
Also id say most are just waiting for the expansion, so i guess judge then not now. This season is basically a staller with some alright small events.
Also for AGS they are taking this ship in the right direction lets just give them a chance with the expansion 🤷🏻♂️
I'd be fine with a low drop rate if it didn't have that stupid, arbitrary cap. The nickel-and-diming is expected for convenience, but the extreme timegating is what I find unacceptable.