Why is Black Dye behind a paywall?

[Prince Ian]

How predatory is that, to charge extra for black dye after everyone already paid $60 for the game.

[Grimwit]

Who is making you buy black dye?
I thought store items were totally optional and not needed for game play? Aren't they?

[CirceTheSiren]

spending money for dyes is optional as always and you are able to preview before buying if you check all dyes from the paint menu of the equiped item slot.

unfortunenatly that wraith black mostly is only displayed like a slighty more darker grey on most textures only good to block underlaying details.

but some people maybe like to look even more dull than most default grey or brown colors for leather or belt parts only at best.

very simple dont like it on preview dont buy it a second time at worst.

for my personal taste only the new heartgem red is better than already existing buyable dyes but only slightly depending from the texture size and glow factor.

stil without a shiny black option i would recommend to pass on wraith grey if you want your toon to improve on looking but its just personal taste as with all transmog.

maybe only not to bad if you want your toon to blend better into shadows during a dark night or foggy day.

better hiding bad taste behind a paywall to protect people from eyecancer.

[Super Captain America]

So many people have requested Black Dye be in the game, because it wasn't at all, that they all said they'd even pay for it. So there ya go.

[Rampant Razza]

well i cant recall the EXACT figures but i was reading some stuff and basically the gaming industry made 20+ billion in sales of whole games, but 54+ billy on microtransactioins.

so gamers are nothing more than livestock, there to be farmed. intelligence isnt there.

great example being that new AH mount they added in WoW- £60!!!!!!! the price of a AAA game, for a mount...... and gamers defend this calling it a bargain.

so its only gonna get worse. i bet amazon has made some good money off of that dye.

[MegaKootz]

Originally posted by Rampant Razza:

well i cant recall the EXACT figures but i was reading some stuff and basically the gaming industry made 20+ billion in sales of whole games, but 54+ billy on microtransactioins.

so gamers are nothing more than livestock, there to be farmed. intelligence isnt there.

great example being that new AH mount they added in WoW- £60!!!!!!! the price of a AAA game, for a mount...... and gamers defend this calling it a bargain.

so its only gonna get worse. i bet amazon has made some good money off of that dye.

People are livestock for the pigs in suits to farm for profit. Has nothing to do with videogames.

[Rampant Razza]

Originally posted by MegaKootz:

Originally posted by Rampant Razza:

well i cant recall the EXACT figures but i was reading some stuff and basically the gaming industry made 20+ billion in sales of whole games, but 54+ billy on microtransactioins.

so gamers are nothing more than livestock, there to be farmed. intelligence isnt there.

great example being that new AH mount they added in WoW- £60!!!!!!! the price of a AAA game, for a mount...... and gamers defend this calling it a bargain.

so its only gonna get worse. i bet amazon has made some good money off of that dye.

People are livestock for the pigs in suits to farm for profit. Has nothing to do with videogames.

ok brother, go buy another skin.

[Prince Ian]

Originally posted by Captain America:

So many people have requested Black Dye be in the game, because it wasn't at all, that they all said they'd even pay for it. So there ya go.

I didn't know that, i'm a new player. I see all these other dyes in the game except black, but I know that black is a popular color, so you can see why I'm questioning the motives. I still think its pretty low to paywall something so small as black dye in a non f2p game. don't you guys think that should already be included in the game?

[Dogtatokun]

Originally posted by Prince Ian:

Originally posted by Captain America:

So many people have requested Black Dye be in the game, because it wasn't at all, that they all said they'd even pay for it. So there ya go.

I didn't know that, i'm a new player. I see all these other dyes in the game except black, but I know that black is a popular color, so you can see why I'm questioning the motives. I still think its pretty low to paywall something so small as black dye in a non f2p game. don't you guys think that should already be included in the game?

Basically everything that has been player requested has been paywalled.

[jackman]

We should all request "Puke Green".

[Smoulder]

To mitigate the inevitable flood of tasteless cringe, making all the gear sets look like uninspired CoD tier blacked-out "drip" that will subsequently cause the game to look even more like ♥♥♥♥, because most gamers have no real personality.

[BainKowalski]

Dyes are behind a paywall because people will pay for it, people have taught these companies what they will pay for so they take advantage of it. It's fine spend your money how you want but it has made the microtransactions worse and worse over the years, with charging with basic things games used to just provide, like mounts etc. Surprised we didnt have to pay extra to swim at this point... Also Amazon Games is a struggling startup...

[Xeph The Tamagotchi]

Originally posted by Prince Ian:

How predatory is that, to charge extra for black dye after everyone already paid $60 for the game.

first mmo? i can list a few that has black dye behind paywalls. SWTOR,FFXIV are the bigger ones. sure FFXIV has off black but not true black dye outside of the mog station. then we have games like WoW where dying is not even an option lol

[Rampant Razza]

Originally posted by napkinfactory:

edit: what you should really be upset about is that they removed the weekly free transmog tokens. I think I'm going to keep bringing that up... yeah, we should keep bringing up that they gave us a free weekly transmog token in a cute little bag until amazon figured they were being too nice.

did they actually? my first thought was 'thats unbelievable' but then we are talking about the people that sell you the ability to mount (a staple of MMO's), and a repacakaged zone that they already sold you then took away.

so i think what i can take from this, is that its just getting more predatory, and i am 100% sure that it will continue to do so. damn.