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etnad321
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will we ever get it im really sick of those enchantments visuals that ruin my character look i spend alot of AD for dyes just to get them covered by enchantments 
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There are equivalents for ever class for shirts and pants.
Forget shirts and pants. I want invisible gauntlets (The CW "gauntlets" look very ugly)
Perhaps the idea of paying NOT to see some of their artwork/content is not an attractive option.
also it would be cool if you could replace how your enchantment looks with another visual, they could even sell transmute items in zen store(since i doubt many would sacrifice perfect for looks), though it should either revert to default look on pvp or simply change how you, not others see them
And there's nothing wrong with that. There are many players who would find it worth spending Zen on (or AD if they convert). At least there would be an *option*. The code for hiding gear is basically already there for head gear and neck gear, just need to spread that about through the rest.
As for enchantment effects: Makes me wonder wot dumassed idiot decided to create "New Coke" and NOT have a "way out" with that? Er, I mean Enchantment Visuals, not New Coke. You get the idea.
I have asked for this since testing and I won't stop, within reason of course!
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yea i would spend Zen too, to disable enchantment visuals there are some really cool armors and weapons but all of their apperance is ruined by enchantments sadly
By me (and others) keeping our enchants purposely lesser or normal because of this does nothing to help the economy. Removing the aversion and I am sure, and if I were a betting man, I'd bet that more players would be upgrading their enchants and in effect, buying more Coal Wards and Marks.
What I'd really love to see is to go a step further and allow us to choose any lesser to no visuals than what our current rank of enchantment provides. For example, if I have a Perfect Thunderhead, allow me to: Disable it Entirely or Choose to display it as a Greater, Normal, or Lesser.
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Bingo. There's a lot they seem to be avoiding/missing out on in terms of character customization that could net them a lot of repeat purchases though.
This question was answered by heyrogers in the AMA saying if he had to give a yes or no answer the answer would be no but I can not accept any reason for a no
....especially since anybody who thinks it wouldn't be profitable clearly doesn't understand how much people will pay for cosmetics. (if it is a reasonable fee)
adding that would be easy, wouldnt be much work
also that would also work better in f2p model - not few whales keeping the money flowing, but a bunch of average players spending money
they could just add tab to store somewhere close to costumes and add all enchantment looks + invisible option(though they might need to change how it looks in PvP so opponent can see what kind of enchantment you have, this might be the reason they havent done it yet)
as for the process - they could just add transmute option to the enchant, and make them keep the transmute after upgrade, or add inventory slots
would enjoy changing the looks of my soulforged to smth that doesnt look like i havent changed my underwear for a veeeeeery long time
Exactly. I've invested money to play around with the dyes bottles, packs and transmutes across different sets of armor and costume sets and I'd certainly pay to disable the enchantment visuals if the option is available.
It bothers me when I'd to unequip my armor whenever I'd like to take a screenshot of my newly dyed fashion or when friends like to check out the new look in game.
Every possible enchant has a visual. Every visual /enchant needs specified in script. This may make it a long script to write to disable visuals of effects on 2 slots.
I'm not saying it's impossible. I am in fact in favor of this too. It's possibly tedious is all.
EDIT: Just thought of something.
The Dragon Soul gems have an effect for each kind. This effect is NOT visible when wearing fashion clothes. Maybe there's something in scripting there to look at for this?
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Do the same for armor and weapon transmutes, and you got me sold...
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Imagine such an option for general cosmetic items too?
In the last two AMA's I got the impression he and/or his peers resist investing in certain features players actually want such as cosmetics because the numbers don't show them to be worthwhile.
The truth is, sorry Ryan, the numbers are Cryptic's fault and they do not express the player interest.
Cosmetics just have to be decently priced. The current ones are either horribly overpriced to begin with or lack critical features mainly in the ways of storage. Bag space is really tight as it is without cluttering it up with cosmetics so likely the biggest thing holding people back from buying cosmetics isn't their willingness to spend but the inability to store it.
And I do mean inability. Even if you buy a bunch of extra bag space it's still tight and it's always a nuisance to deal with inventory space. There's very little that can be done to improve the situation on the players' side due to bag slot limits but you can prevent making it worse by not buying cosmetic options...so they don't.
All in all I feel a lot of the data Ryan and his peers looks over is flawed.
Seeing low sales in cosmetic options or limited interest in the foundry might not be a sign that more money should be invested into these features as...hey...they aren't exactly raking in the money now. However if you actually were to go out and ask players why, they don't say they are unwilling to buy cosmetics or have no desire to play foundry missions. Quite the opposite.
The numbers only show what players currently do rather than the reasons why they behave this way.
Whether it would encourage players to spend more time/money/AD on their appearance is a different question.
Incidentally, I love that you can fight wearing your fashion gear but get all the benefits of the armour. It means I get to kill dragons whilst looking like a BeeGee from the 70's..
Although why is beyond me.
Ah, I didn't know the devs had expressed any view on the subject. I'm a developer and sometimes software is like that. The simplest-sounding thing can be a nightmare to implement because of previous design decisions/constraints and on the converse sometimes big stuff just slots into place. Some of our customers seem to have a special knack of requesting stuff in that first category. We try to make the design as accommodating as possible but ultimately we have to get it done and we cannot allow for everything. In software development, you only figure out how you could have done it better once the project is finished.
If the devs say it is difficult then it will probably not get done.
However here's a thought...
They might not be able to make the current weapon enchantments visuals get disabled...
But in theory...at least in my mind...they could make enchantments with duplicate effects that have a blank visual appearance. They could add a store which allowed players to "buy" these enchantments for their current enchantment and a fee.
In short they might not be able to make the "Perfect Vorpal" visuals disappear but they could make a "Perfect Vorpal (invisible)" with no visuals or a blank visual effect.
I can understand the lack of simple. I've seen coding. It makes the Matrix looks like a sandbox. It is very possible though if it is already occurring in game. You just have to figure out how to make it apply in the manner you want it to.
Now, they letting a Dev have the time to figure it out may be a different matter. That's not the Dev's fault. That's a matter of the boss telling them what to work on as "priority".
As a side though having a drop down menu for ANY visual to apply as long as you have the enchant is way too complex. A simple
"disable current enchant visual" is better.
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"Ignore visual effect display" would have to read the item, and then reapply it to body (with any transmute features) without the visual effect.
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Yes I saw a guildie yesterday when running CN, he had a perfect bloodtheft and it was far from impressive. It was not making you want to have this enchant too. A walking fountain of rust powder.
Enabling or Disabling Enchantments, period, is what was stated to be too complicated to implement.
The drop down is not the too complicated aspect preventing it from being implemented.
As some of the other code savvy players here have said it is hard to fathom why it is hard to disable. Typically it is a lot harder to tell something to display to the screen than not to. But we don't know the inner workings of the code. The devs didn't just say decide it was too complicated on a whim. They actually did go into the code and try to decide if there was a way to implement this feature and their response was that it was not possible.
This is at the very least the top ten requested feature to be added to the game. If it was as easy as we all think it should be they would have done it by now.
Just found this thread and was going to make this exact suggestion, there is always a way and this way is very simple easy to implement and profitable.
At your next meeting you should make this suggestion or at least let them know that players have specifically asked for this option.