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So... We have hairstyles dropping from CM packs now?

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Darth_Wicked

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I saw this first posted on Reddit here.

 

As you can see, the picture is lovely ( ughhh...!!! ) but this bit:

Check out these Pigtails! One of the new Hair Styles coming with the Pilgrim's Shadow Pack next week to the Cartel Market.

I wasn't expecting. I guess it depends on its rarity.

 

Thoughts?

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Saregon

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Probably doing this so that they'll be useable on all races in the future? I'm sure they will sell.

 

Perhaps, and maybe this has something to do with being able to preview the old human hair styles pack on the other races right now, maybe 3.0 will make those old unlocks usable on them too...it's one of those unacknowledged "bugs" that makes me think "intended"? :)

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Gwena

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Wow, that hairstyle is actually really cute and nicely done. No weird hairline, frames the face well, good length and probably not too clippy . . . amazing. :eek: Oh please, let there be more new hair styles of this quality!

 

(As an aside, though, the character modeling the style looks about on par with the usual work of Bioware's fine character designers. :p)

 

I wasn't expecting. I guess it depends on its rarity.

Same here. While the idea of hairsyles being available individually is nice, and I'm not bothered by the limited aspect (FFXIV had a couple of hairstyles available for a limited time event), I'm quite leery of the idea of them being in packs. As you say, it depends on the rarity combined with how popular they are. A couple hundred thousand credits for a new hairstyle unlock, ok. More than I'd expect to spend on a popular rare chest piece, not so much.

 

Also, thanks for posting this. :) I'm not into instagram and the like so I hadn't seen it. Cute wampa (?) pet, too!

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Wow, we haven't received new appearance options for a while now. I thought that they didn't reach their ROI, which is why they stopped bringing out more, but it looks like we will be getting more. :)

I just hope that the item won't be too rare, and that it will lock account-wide and we don't need one for each toon.

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Wow, we haven't received new appearance options for a while now. I thought that they didn't reach their ROI, which is why they stopped bringing out more, but it looks like we will be getting more. :)

I just hope that the item won't be too rare, and that it will lock account-wide and we don't need one for each toon.

 

Well if it's coming from a pack, it should be unlockable through collections...for additional CC of course. Otherwise, if you're not using CC, you'd have to buy one for each character.

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I quite like the idea, mainly for the fact that it means BW haven't totally forgotten about character customization.

Of course it would depend on rarity but i can see this as a good way to introduce a larger amount of customization options in the future, more so if it turns out to be more profitable than the original customization packs by increasing cartel pack sales.

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I quite like the idea, mainly for the fact that it means BW haven't totally forgotten about character customization.

Of course it would depend on rarity but i can see this as a good way to introduce a larger amount of customization options in the future, more so if it turns out to be more profitable than the original customization packs by increasing cartel pack sales.

 

I'm down for more customization - especially since it'll probably flood packs and be super cheap on the GTN. I've got 10K credits for more options.

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Whether these are worth chasing after depends largely on whether they are account-wide unlocks.

 

agreed, otherwise we'll have to spend cartel coins just to "equip" our new item from the packs. which strikes me as kind of crappy

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DarthDymond

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The only way they're going to implement additional hairstyles/tattoos/etc would be if they are profitable. Given we've gone a year and a half since the last such options went on the CM, I'm not surprised at this additional indication that those options didn't sell all that well - at least not well enough to justify more as direct-sale items.

 

If adding them as CM Pack (whether its as 'padding' or otherwise) lets BW justify the cost of developing more options, I'm all in favor of it.

 

(The alternative narrative to "they don't bring in enough money as direct-sale to justify developing them" would be "they're selling so well that we think the demand for them will drive up sales of CM packs enough that it will be more profitable to have them in there" but if they were actually a money-maker then I think we would have seen some additional sign of them in the past 18 months.)

Whether these are worth chasing after depends largely on whether they are account-wide unlocks.

This is a good point, I hope they'll be automatically unlocked on the account, but if not they better be a trivial amount to unlock in Collections (like less than 100 CCs).

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OddballEasyEight

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Big question, if you get it, do you get a free hairstyle change on the appearance designer to use it on the toon that unlocks it?

 

I would expect it to work just like the ones we have now.

 

So you unlock it on legacy, then you can use it for free on a new toon or pay a small fee to use on the one you have.

If you only unlock it for one toon, you'll have to pay for the change.

 

My guess anyway.

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I really dont mean to sound sexist or anything but seriously is there a team of females in charge of creating appearance options because first off going through GTN dye modules is like deciding paint options for your newborn childs room i mean come on F-ing stop it with the pink and light blues and light purples, ***... and now more ditsy do dah hairdoos? Im already sick of all the female characters running around with slave castumes cuz it takes me right out of Star Wars fantasy.. if i wana see naked chicks ill use ****. this is where i go to be in star wars bc Disney hit the delete button on all star wars EU and lucas arts as a whole; plus there was only one girl in the first trilogy so why is it when im questing i see more and more half nude girls with sims hairdoos pop up instead of normal geared people that i can mistake for npcs at a glance.

We need more options that combine some of the features already available and for something other than humans, every damn game has humans. how about making some of the sith jewelry available for any race but only SI or SW classes, Slave Scars for republic characters, your getting CC from us regardless, Oh and as you know we have the sith race playable as a Republic Character so any response attributing these features (or any for that matter) as "lore-breaking" wake up. I just ask in this post for BW to please stop the lore perversion, and EA you dont give NBA live2015 armored outfits right? ...no so why are devs at BW polishing poo with their appearance options?

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