I was going to sumbit this as feedback in game, but it didn't allow me enough words.
I would like to make a suggestion concerning the outfit slots. I feel you may have both over and under estimated your customers' enthusiam for fashion. I think the pricing of the extra outfit slots, or your choice to make them character specific, greatly limits the potential of the glorious outfit station functionality. While many people may only play with one or two characters, I believe there are also many 'alt-a-holics' out there (like myself), and it is my conjecture that those who enjoy creating characters are also likely to have a greater interest in the appearance of those characters, not simply creating them to try a certain build, but having a backstory, personality, and Style in mind. I think many people would spend hours of fun creating multiple outfits, and may even take more interest in acquiring all the motifs and style pages, if they had access to multiple slots on each character - since it is rather tedious to go back to an outfit station and reselct all the individual pieces in order to change between outfits. However, 1,500 x 2-10 Per Character on 8+ characters, doesn't seem like something the majority would happily spend. Perhaps you are thinking, yes but because they don't have slots they'll buy more outfit tokens to change up their One slot. Eh... maybe, but I think if outfit slots unlocked for the whole account there would be More outfits to be playing around with, and thus a need for more in game gold or change tokens with which to save those outfit designs and redesigns. Alternitively, if the character-specific slots were priced similar to the change tokens, you'd probably see a lot more people buying multiple new slots. (Personally, with 22 characters between the two servers, I'd be all over the outfit slots if they were account-wide or in the 250-400 crown range. So far, I have not bought as single one, despite the fact that about half of my interest in this game is in fact character creation and the aesthetics in general).
It's my impression that as things are now, most people just set up their one outfit and stick with that, not because they're not interested in more slots but because for the same price they can unlock costumes, furniture, pets, and mounts that ALL of their characters benefit from. The outfit slots just don't look like a good deal in comparrison. So in that sense you have grossly overestimated the value of fashion. But there is so much potential for collecting styles and motifs and creating multiple outfits IF Only the slots were reasonably priced. And that's where I think you've underestimated your market. I could be wrong, but I think one extra slot here and there at an exorbitant price probably would not add up to the same as what people might be inclined to spend if it unlocked for all characters, or on many smaller purchases per character. It's much more desireable to be able to switch between outfits anywhere/anytime, rather than having to find a dye station and reselect all those individual pieces each time you want to change, BUT it's still not worth 1,500 per slot per character - I mean... seriously? that's almost the price of a whole DLC or a new character. I can't be the only one who looks at that and says "what were they thinking?!?" To me, it seems like the slots are a base part of the Outfit Station functionality which would encourage other purchases and participation in the game, and by keeping those slots limited you are limiting other investment in the game. It's my impression that a lot of people would be happily throwing money at you for outfit slots if they were priced more reasonably, because... well they all begged for the outfit station's features in the first place. Effectively you have said 'here is your dream come true, we put a looooot of work into it! But we don't want you to actually use it.' (unless you give us your first born child, and your second, ...and your third' =P )
Edited by Aelthwyn on February 12, 2021 8:31AM