In game store now available... Name change, Makeover kit, Storage Pane

I don't understand how you can say that people are moaning for no good reason.

We get it, you guys need money badly but for god's sake this is just horribly overpriced. All these features that so many people have wanted since Prophecies and you put them out of reach of any sane person.

Even the equiptment bags which I really wanted seeing as I have so many 55 and 600 armor sets, and other armors that I stopped using but can't bear to sell, are really hard to get :(.

Exactly, so what was the point of your original post? Because I got the feeling you were implying that the costs of these 'features' was justified by server fee's. So make your mind up.

I'll wait for the holidays when they put some of their in-game store stuff on sale like last year. Other than that, thanks for the update, Anet !

not it doesn't makes servers free. Yes they are justified.

I'd pay for it... i'd do anything to change my name

I get the feeling that you are just stating crap to argue for the sake of arguing.

Pigeon, tomb and clouds.

'Sense' this post makes non.

I will only pay my dollars if Anet get me purchase additional number of heroes I can bring at a time. I will pay $10 per extra hero I can bring with me!!!

Come on, let me play with my heroes by my way! I want to build a team with my heroes and max the build.

So by this logic because EQ and EQ 2 added an Item mall to their game with xp boosters and other stuff that clearly gives unfair advantages to players Anet will also do it in this and future games as well?

Once again - it's all about pretty.
And once again - a good choice for payable content with a bad price.


Now THIS would be bad.
This extends beyond pretty and would as such be a really shitty addition for payable content.

No, if I can pay $ to be able to play all parts of the game alone whenever I want to, I'll do it.

I won't complain if additional hero slots are free. But if not, at least let me buy them.

Reading from the update notes seems like a great update! Been waiting for something like the stylist for ages

The prices are a bit high, but still within the range I'm willing to pay. At least the changes are permanent
So among all this whining I just wanted to add one positive post here \o/

What a surprise all the people who suggested these ideas are going back on them now...

I don't think a pricetag was included in all of those requests, Apollo.

Sex-change operations? WTH?

I remember the April fools update when they switched sexes of our characters. Logged in and loaded my cute monkette only to see a big ugly brute. I almost threw up with disgust.

Anyhow, looks like a good update to me. Although the prices are a bit high and packages could have been sold as one use only for $2.

When subscription based games charge you extra to change gender and name its a-ok. When a subcription fee game does it, its criminal.

The point is that the actual in-game NPC dialogue says that "due to the cost of R&D this service cannot be free of charge."

WHAT ADDITIONAL R&D WAS REQUIRED TO MAKE THESE CHANGES? Salaried Developer time. Already paid for, nothing additional. The code was already there. April fool's, reported offensive name, character creation screen. All it possibly could have required were three scripts tying an NPC to those packets of code. Those packets of code already have the functionality of tying changes into everything related to the character. Links to customized items are already there, the only "link" would be the character Identification code and the associated skins and textures.

I don't code but I know how it works. $15 for a name change? Was that to prevent abuse? If it was $5 people still wouldn't have been falling over themselves renaming their characters every other day. I'd say the $15 and $10 should be used to give the account full access to the NPC's permanently across all characters. Pay the due, one time. Be able to change a character's name once a month. Change the hair, face, colors once a week. Allow a reset on all changes.

That's fair, that's how you'll win over most of us, I'm sure. You can keep your $10 storage tabs, they're one-time permanent things. Fine. But per-change names/looks? That's ridiculous.

There's more to this update than just that.

For me personally, and in regards to the stylist, I don't enjoy the fact that I'd have to pay so much to simply change my hair-do.

The pricing for everything is wholly unreasonable. That's all that there needs to be said here.

Some of the devs are gonna have to rethink this over but in the meantime it's best we all call for a boycott or they'll have the excuse to keep doing what they just did. As for the ones who paid for some of this already, shame on you people.... shame on you.

Personally, I wouldn't buy it myself. But that all comes down to the situation you are in. Sure you can remake a character if you don't like it, but say the character in question is a GWAMM, I think people could see value in spending 10 bucks that redoing all of that over. Changing names and looks is a server thing. I'm sure a bunch of people who claim to know the inner working of the program will come in and tell me how "fast, easy, and cost free" the changes are to implement.

I'd like to also note, the devs make the content, not price it. At least send your blame in the right direction.