Quote:I have negative infinity art skills and can't make cosmetics
So, I'm gonna throw this out there, cause it's one of the things on my very long wish list and it seems like the vault has the attention of an intern, but would it at all be possible to dredge up the old cosmetics (from before cosmetics when they were armor kits) and make cosmetics out of those.
I mean, cosmetics are something people actually buy. With real money. If you suddenly threw several dozen old cosmetics back into the shop I can't see how they wouldn't make some money out of that. They added back all of the old cosmetics for random loot so they could sell more mirrors, but there are still cosmetics from the old armor kits that I don't think can be found in the game any more. I have't seen any random loot and haven't seen anyone running around in them.
I like the mirrors, and they were long overdue, but for those old armor kits it's been ages, and those were promised to us years ago when the new cosmetics came out. But the story of Turbine and now SSG is that promises on updates are immediately forgotten in favor of the next update.
Guild airships, for instance. My guild spent $500 the day the new airships came out buying the biggest ship in the game, and a couple hundred more for astral shards to fill it with amenities and the ship was so big it had more room than there were amenities. They promised that day that more amenities would be added in the future, but nope. That promise was forgotten the second after it was made, and the next day they cut the price on the airships and refunded the shards. Now my guild has all these shards in the bank, no way to get them out, and nothing to spend them on because we paid probably over $700 to Turbine and got screwed in the deal.
So when Skoodge says they need to start working on brand trust, then yeah. I second that. They need to fix bugs, work on quality of life changes, and return to old promises not kept.
One of the reasons people are getting excited about a new expansion for is because they yet again promised things they've been promising for ages. New Augments, Sentient weapons. New Enhancement trees.
So, if there's anyway that that could happen, it'd be awesome. I imagine it would be as simple as finding the id numbers of the old kits, creating xml files with those numbers and a description to create the cosmetic or making some database entry, and then putting it in the right place to sell it in the shop but from what I've seen of DDO it would probably require 10,000 more lines of spaghetti code for some reason.