this pigment system stinks

Nuku_Nuku - Raging Tide
Nuku_Nuku - Raging Tide Posts: 277 Arc User
edited September 2010 in General Discussion
ok i just got into this clothing thing and the dyeing part stinks.
all i wanted to do is dye my shirt gray and the only colors u can get, that is a sure thing, is black or white.
why can't the game let u get the colors u want and be satisfied with that. instead of making u spend more than u need to.
all i want to do is dye my shirt gray.
is there a way to do it with out taking a gamble other than trying to find it in the market place?
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  • Zoe - Heavens Tear
    Zoe - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,814 Arc User
    edited September 2010
    Either gamble with the cash shop or try to find it in a catshop. Making you spend more money than you need to trying to get the right color from the cash shop is the entire point.
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  • Sabatier - Raging Tide
    Sabatier - Raging Tide Posts: 212 Arc User
    edited September 2010
    yeah it sucks. they are trying white and black in the boutique as they are the most popular judging by market price. if it pays off for them they may add the other colors to the boutique


    remember to check out the AH for pigments also


    (and you didnt need to create a new thread to QQ, you could have replied to your original post on the same subject. ijs)
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  • Alyyy - Sanctuary
    Alyyy - Sanctuary Posts: 3,165 Arc User
    edited September 2010
    out of all things u can QQ about...u go find this... lol...
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  • MANray_ - Sanctuary
    MANray_ - Sanctuary Posts: 2,311 Arc User
    edited September 2010
    Black and white dyes will only be available for a limited time. I doubt very much they'll make specific colors available through the boutique...
  • Sskinner - Harshlands
    Sskinner - Harshlands Posts: 13 Arc User
    edited September 2010
    Honestly, I think they would make a lot more revenue by putting all the dyes in the boutique permanently. The only /real/ people who buy pigments from the boutique is people who want to sell them for profit. Yes, people will be buying less of the random pigments and hot colours packs, but if they would take those out and replace them with the actual pigments for 2 gold a dye, and with how much dye it takes to actually dye something, think of the money they would be making on it.
    Let's say there's 150k people that actually play this game. (I'm estimating... I have no earthly clue how many people play this game). And out of all those people, only 1/8th of the PWi population buys dyes out of the boutique to sell to players. That's 18,750 people. Let's say they all charge 50 gold every month to get 26 random pigments. That leads to almost 1,000,000 USD. One MILLION dollars a month. I'm not sure how they divide it with taxes and stuff, so we'll just stick with that price.
    Now, let's take a situation where they decide to put in all pigments for 2 gold each. 150k players, of course, and let's say about 3/4ths of the players want to dye their clothing with boutique pigments. That's 112,500 people, and we'll say that the average outfit costs 10 pigments to dye. So far that's 1,125,000 dyes sold, and like I said, 2 gold each. That is 2,250,000$ profit.

    My math may be wrong, and the numbers will definitely be wrong. But if I hit the ballpark for average numbers, it shows that they'd make more out of selling pigments directly than random pigments.
    This of course only works if:
    A. No one other than merchants buy random pigments, save a few 5,000 people.
    B. People actually buy the pigments from the boutique.

    I think it'd be worth a shot to test the waters like they did with white/black pigments. Add all the colours into the boutique and see how much of a profit they make from it as compared to random dyes.
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  • Nuku_Nuku - Raging Tide
    Nuku_Nuku - Raging Tide Posts: 277 Arc User
    edited September 2010
    well i will stick to a sure thing with the black and white. i left BOI (PWI's other game) because of its strong gambling system.
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  • Cocobelle - Sanctuary
    Cocobelle - Sanctuary Posts: 960 Arc User
    edited September 2010
    Nuku_Nuku - Raging Tide wrote: »
    well i will stick to a sure thing with the black and white. i left BOI (PWI's other game) because of its strong gambling system.
    PWI is a gamble too. b:chuckle
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  • Nowitsawn - Heavens Tear
    Nowitsawn - Heavens Tear Posts: 4,864 Arc User
    edited September 2010
    Cocobelle - Sanctuary wrote: »
    PWI is a gamble too. b:chuckle

    Not NEARLY as much as BOI though.

    The only thing PWI really has as a gamble would be packs and refining (and some other boutique related stuff).

    In BoI it's everywhere. Leveling your mount, upgrading your pets, upgrading you gears, opening a pack reward from a daily event, tons and tons of packs in the CS, hell even the best pets are a gamble (kill a boss for the >1% chance to tame it, open a $0,75 pack for a >1% chance to get a pet).
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  • SugarPrinces - Sanctuary
    SugarPrinces - Sanctuary Posts: 464 Arc User
    edited September 2010
    ive only dyed fash twice, and it was a single-dye job at that (minxxi miniskirts both times) so i'm a little unsure how it works for the other fash that requires alot more dyes, can you mix&match pigments and get a completely custom colour or no? if not, they should do that, then you could just get say 5 black and 5 white for an article that needs 10 to dye and presto u have grey.

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