Are The Fashion Items Free?

wesl
wesl Posts: 0 Arc User
edited August 2008 in General Discussion
I played the Malaysia version of Perfect World. And there people had to pay for fashion items. Is Perfect World International going to make players play for the fashion items. Or just buy it with in game money? Does anyone know yet?
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  • shizo
    shizo Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    wesl wrote: »
    I played the Malaysia version of Perfect World. And there people had to pay for fashion items. Is Perfect World International going to make players play for the fashion items. Or just buy it with in game money? Does anyone know yet?

    Fashion,Hiero,Trumpets,Pets,Speakers.... were always the main stuff in itemmall, so i think you will need cubigold for it
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  • heavyen
    heavyen Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    i think ull have to pay real money to get em...

    thats the way free servers get money to run ;)
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  • wesl
    wesl Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    so i guess that the international version and the malaysia version are the same except for the translations....
  • karmelia
    karmelia Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    wesl wrote: »
    I played the Malaysia version of Perfect World. And there people had to pay for fashion items. Is Perfect World International going to make players play for the fashion items. Or just buy it with in game money? Does anyone know yet?

    You can buy it with game money if :

    1 - you use game money to buy ZEN sold by other players in the Auction House, then use it in the cash shop

    2 - buy fashions from players who bought them in the cash shop an resells them in their cat shop.

    Otherwise, you'll have to buy ZEN with real money and buy fashion with it.
    Frankieraye said : "we can promise that we will work to improve all facets of community, engineering, and customer service to ensure that something like this doesn't happen again."


    (We are still waiting to see any improvements or changes beign implemented. More empty promises from PWI?)
  • karmelia
    karmelia Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    wesl wrote: »
    so i guess that the international version and the malaysia version are the same except for the translations....

    Same game, different companies running them.

    This one will be more up to date than the malaysian version tho.
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    (We are still waiting to see any improvements or changes beign implemented. More empty promises from PWI?)
  • shizo
    shizo Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    karmelia wrote: »
    Same game, different companies running them.

    This one will be more up to date than the malaysian version tho.

    And a weird translating of Cities and Classnames which weren't necessary to change >___<
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  • heavyen
    heavyen Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    karmelia wrote: »
    You can buy it with game money if :
    you use game money to buy ZEN sold by other players in the Auction House, then use it in the cash shop

    honestly, i never understood that Auction House on PWmy... its so confusing... >.<
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  • karmelia
    karmelia Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    shizo wrote: »
    And a weird translating of Cities and Classnames which weren't necessary to change >___<

    Well, they had to....

    If they used the exact same names used on the MY-EN version, they could have sued them for having stolen their translation...

    The other english version (Philippines) don't use the same translation than MY-EN either.

    Legally, you cannot use someone else's translation, it belong to the translator.
    Frankieraye said : "we can promise that we will work to improve all facets of community, engineering, and customer service to ensure that something like this doesn't happen again."


    (We are still waiting to see any improvements or changes beign implemented. More empty promises from PWI?)
  • shizo
    shizo Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    karmelia wrote: »
    Well, they had to....

    If they used the exact same names used on the MY-EN version, they could have sued them for having stolen their translation...

    The other english version (Philippines) don't use the same translation than MY-EN either.

    Legally, you cannot use someone else's translation, it belong to the translator.

    Thats true...but well gotta need like a month to get used to it >__<
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  • massamune
    massamune Posts: 395 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    karmelia wrote: »
    2 - buy fashions from players who bought them in the cash shop an resells them in their cat shop.

    Y'know this is something I should have thought of before but didn't. They're "americanizing" the class names, and probably all the skill and place names, but I bet we're going to be stuck with **** Chinese cat stalls again.

    What does a fat Chinese cat have to do with a market stall anyway? I've always wondered that.
  • tenkei
    tenkei Posts: 63
    edited August 2008
    massamune wrote: »
    Y'know this is something I should have thought of before but didn't. They're "americanizing" the class names, and probably all the skill and place names, but I bet we're going to be stuck with **** Chinese cat stalls again.

    What does a fat Chinese cat have to do with a market stall anyway? I've always wondered that.

    It's part of Chinese mythology so it deserve a place in the game. It's the Fortune Cat, a superstition that this "Fat Chinese Cat" brings great prosperity and fortune to the vendor. I would have to find the mythology again but it's kind of literally that each shop vendor that sold out and had great success had this cat lingering around their shop. That's why any Chinese shop/resturant you go to you'll see a Fortune Cat sitting somewere in the shop.

    There is even specific rules on how the cat is suppose to be placed in order for it to bring you great Fortune, like must be somewere visible from the door when your customer's enter. Must face outwards to look upon the customers. Things like that again I would have to go researching again to get all the bits.


    Same thing like myths of Nightngales if one sings a songs at your window someone is about to fall madly in love you in the near future, how a Raven is suppose to be a keeper of souls, hell how a dove is suppose to be a bringer of peace.
  • ark
    ark Posts: 1,635 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    I would prefer different shop models. Like, being able to choose a shop model that looks like an axe stuck in a rock for a person that's selling weapons, or a chestplate on a stand for an armour-seller.
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  • tenkei
    tenkei Posts: 63
    edited August 2008
    Really? I actually like that cat, one of the draws to this game for me is that it revolves around Chinese mythology and the Fortune Cat is such a fundamental part I thought that it fit perfectly being the vendor symbol.
  • ark
    ark Posts: 1,635 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Put a cat beside the rock that the axe is in, then. A big cat looks dumb if you disregard its background history.
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  • tenkei
    tenkei Posts: 63
    edited August 2008
    Aww, comeon man were's that culturizing yourself. So what if it's a game, it's underlying premise or theme is that it's based around chinese mythology. Still prefer just the cat because an Weapon symbol starts driving more to a war theme and takes away from the culture symbols.
  • ark
    ark Posts: 1,635 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    The culture was there when I first started... but after a while, it went stale. It happens in every game.

    ... Besides, war is what this game is based upon.
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  • massamune
    massamune Posts: 395 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    To me, the cat stalls make the game look awfully tacky. I mean they're big and crudely designed, they look like cheap plastic toys made in...

    Oh okay, I guess it is culturally authentic.
  • ren
    ren Posts: 662 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    massamune wrote: »
    To me, the cat stalls make the game look awfully tacky. I mean they're big and crudely designed, they look like cheap plastic toys made in...

    Oh okay, I guess it is culturally authentic.
    lmfao.

    I wish they would do away with the cat stalls as they're downright disgusting and creepy, but sadly, I don't think it will happen.
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  • xillian
    xillian Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    wesl wrote: »
    I played the Malaysia version of Perfect World. And there people had to pay for fashion items. Is Perfect World International going to make players play for the fashion items. Or just buy it with in game money? Does anyone know yet?

    Excuse me but...thats a really silly question >.>
  • jamsan
    jamsan Posts: 73 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Any model gets boring/looks rubbish when there are a hundred of them in the same area. Mix em up a bit perhaps.
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  • soukyuu
    soukyuu Posts: 809 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    the whole point why the stall model is this simple looking is because it helps reducing graphic lag as it has only few polygons compared to any other model in PW. Mixing up or replacing the model with something else will just increase graphic lag.
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  • jamsan
    jamsan Posts: 73 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    soukyuu wrote:
    the whole point why the stall model is this simple looking is because it helps reducing graphic lag as it has only few polygons compared to any other model in PW. Mixing up or replacing the model with something else will just increase graphic lag.

    Nice balance between main-city performance and not have 200 apparently random, almost identical hanging cats plaguing all major areas of the game please.
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  • emir
    emir Posts: 176 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    they said everything would be free

    go look at the vid some1 put up in the forums where that guy is on the spot the question is asked and he says it will all be free

    (srry i cant remember names but the creator or wutever was bein interviewed)
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  • rev
    rev Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    for closed beta we might be able to try the cash shop items, just to see what they are like, but when the game actually goes open beta/gold, all but the base flying items, all fashion items, and such will all go to the cash shop.
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  • soukyuu
    soukyuu Posts: 809 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    emir wrote: »
    they said everything would be free

    go look at the vid some1 put up in the forums where that guy is on the spot the question is asked and he says it will all be free

    (srry i cant remember names but the creator or wutever was bein interviewed)
    no, he said the game will be free to play, spending money is optional. you don't have to use cash shop items to play the game.

    most cash shop items (like fashion) are just a bonus.
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  • tofu
    tofu Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    if the fashion items were free, then how would a f2p game make a profit out of it? :0
    ...
    exactly
    believe it or not, PWI is trying to make money u know ;)
  • phate
    phate Posts: 82 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    No. They will not be free.
  • emir
    emir Posts: 176 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    soukyuu wrote: »
    no, he said the game will be free to play, spending money is optional. you don't have to use cash shop items to play the game.

    most cash shop items (like fashion) are just a bonus.

    guess i mis heard not like i care anyway we will all find out in 6 days
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  • glamorous
    glamorous Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    yeah probably have an item mall. why else would they ask for your name and city. It said it was "optional" but if you don't fill it out, it won't let you go to the next step. Anyways, it says it'll speed up the process if they were to bill you. So yes there's an item mall.
  • emir
    emir Posts: 176 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    glamorous wrote: »
    yeah probably have an item mall. why else would they ask for your name and city. It said it was "optional" but if you don't fill it out, it won't let you go to the next step. Anyways, it says it'll speed up the process if they were to bill you. So yes there's an item mall.

    its all good at least ther not being totaly greedy and makin everyone pay to play
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