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Crown costume dye incompatibility

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Hey everyone, I just wanted to share my thoughts (and provide a disclaimer to those who may be unaware) regarding the issues with dyeing some of the crown costumes. Unfortunately this seems to be most prevalent with the high-cost (2k+ crowns) costumes that have been added for only a limited time. Setting aside the debate of whether or not you believe a costume for that price is justifiable, I find it very disheartening having purchased some of these to find out the dye pallets are completely out of wack. Of course, if I knew this to be the case before hand I wouldn’t purchase them, but unfortunately there is no option to preview dye compatibility prior to purchasing other than finding out from someone else. A particular example of this is the Telvanni Wizard outfit.

Anyways, instead of being spiteful for essentially wasting 20 bucks on something, I would really like to see this fixed by implementing a preview system so others don’t run into the same issue like I did. Cheers
  • VaranisArano
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    Yes, its unfortunate that the only preview function we have for how Crown Store costumes dye is to go to the forums and wait for the brave and selfless souls who bought the costume to report back to use with pictures.
  • Cuthceol
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    be nice if there was a similar system to BOP items being tradeable to group members for limited time, make crown store items refundable for a fixed period of time in case you're not happy with your purchase
  • VaranisArano
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    be nice if there was a similar system to BOP items being tradeable to group members for limited time, make crown store items refundable for a fixed period of time in case you're not happy with your purchase

    Definitely, as opposed to the informal system of "Absolutely no refunds unless you complain really hard to the right people about a defect with the product."
  • Prof_Bawbag
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    It's why i refuse to buy any costume unless i like the original colours or see someone else sporting a dyed variation of it in game. That way, I'm not playing a game of chance.
  • starkerealm
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    Okay, aside from the Nocturnal outfit, which 2k crown costumes had botched up colors?
  • VaranisArano
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    Okay, aside from the Nocturnal outfit, which 2k crown costumes had botched up colors?

    The Jarl's Regalia has an overcoat that dyes very poorly (generally dull colors overall for such a bright outfit) and the Telvanni Master Wizard's skirt is nearly undyeable.
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    Okay, aside from the Nocturnal outfit, which 2k crown costumes had botched up colors?

    The Jarl's Regalia has an overcoat that dyes very poorly (generally dull colors overall for such a bright outfit) and the Telvanni Master Wizard's skirt is nearly undyeable.

    Okay, didn't think either of those were limited time.

    When you said the 2k crown costumes, I thought you meant Naryu's new one, the Nocturnal outfit, the hero costumes (Nord, Elven, and Breton).
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    Yes, its unfortunate that the only preview function we have for how Crown Store costumes dye is to go to the forums and wait for the brave and selfless souls who bought the costume to report back to use with pictures.

    Agreed! That’s a great idea, and seems like a more practical solution than to implement a dye preview option.
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    After a while you realise that 'limited time' means 'we spent a very limited time on friday afternoon making this good luck waiting for a fix'.

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  • Greifenherz
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    It would be awesome if they threw in the new dragon priest mask from the DLC if they were to fix things, it dyes absolutely horribly. I don't have a single dye in my palette that turns out as dark as the original brown on the hood. Slap Coldharbour Ash Black on it and you get a light grey, it's asinine.
    Edited by Greifenherz on February 22, 2018 12:04AM
  • VaranisArano
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    Okay, aside from the Nocturnal outfit, which 2k crown costumes had botched up colors?

    The Jarl's Regalia has an overcoat that dyes very poorly (generally dull colors overall for such a bright outfit) and the Telvanni Master Wizard's skirt is nearly undyeable.

    Okay, didn't think either of those were limited time.

    When you said the 2k crown costumes, I thought you meant Naryu's new one, the Nocturnal outfit, the hero costumes (Nord, Elven, and Breton).

    The Telvanni Master Wizard (Divayth Fyr's armor) was limited time only. But there are plenty of crown store costumes with dyeing issues.
  • WhiteCoatSyndrome
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    I agree there should be a preview of some kind, but in the mean time...maybe try previewing by buying it on the PTS first?

    This is probably more work than most everyone wants to put in, but it's better than nothing and may, at least, save the aforementioned brave and selfless souls who bit the bullet from having to shell out money to warn the rest of the forums.
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    I agree there should be a preview of some kind, but in the mean time...maybe try previewing by buying it on the PTS first?

    This is probably more work than most everyone wants to put in, but it's better than nothing and may, at least, save the aforementioned brave and selfless souls who bit the bullet from having to shell out money to warn the rest of the forums.

    Not all costumes are available. I don't believe the Nocturnal one was.
  • slicksteezin
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    Tavore1138 wrote: »
    After a while you realise that 'limited time' means 'we spent a very limited time on friday afternoon making this good luck waiting for a fix'.

    Lol! Sadly I think you may be right on that...

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    Okay, aside from the Nocturnal outfit, which 2k crown costumes had botched up colors?

    The Jarl's Regalia has an overcoat that dyes very poorly (generally dull colors overall for such a bright outfit) and the Telvanni Master Wizard's skirt is nearly undyeable.

    Okay, didn't think either of those were limited time.

    When you said the 2k crown costumes, I thought you meant Naryu's new one, the Nocturnal outfit, the hero costumes (Nord, Elven, and Breton).

    The Telvanni Master Wizard (Divayth Fyr's armor) was limited time only. But there are plenty of crown store costumes with dyeing issues.

    Oh, right. Sorry, I thought you meant the Telvanni Wizard outfit, not Divayth Fyr's. Mybad. Yeah, didn't think about that one's skirt, but you're right.
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    I agree there should be a preview of some kind, but in the mean time...maybe try previewing by buying it on the PTS first?

    This is probably more work than most everyone wants to put in, but it's better than nothing and may, at least, save the aforementioned brave and selfless souls who bit the bullet from having to shell out money to warn the rest of the forums.

    I would love if these things showed up on the PTS with absolute regularity and if there were some kind of communication for when new stuff was up for review. I basically only hit the PTS for the major patch cycles and wouldn't know if they added some random costumes for testing in between. That way we could provide much more exact feedback about how we'd like things to dye, or any glaring issues with character geometry changes like with the two new Argonian costumes.
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