Gee, they had a 50% off sale on the cost of creating skins that dropped the price to where the cost should be in the first place… They have gouged the living hell out of the costs taking the full value of what the skins are actually worth…all to make sure that they are the ones who are making all the money off of skin creation and forcing the players to charge ridiculous prices for them in order to make any profit from them…
That’s just where their greedy BS begins with this blatant money-fleecing scheme… Then they made all the most desirable colors “rare” and trickled them to the players who have priced them out of sight and are now even hording some colors… If these colors even make it to market, they cost well over a billion now…making any skin that uses them astronomical in price…
This dirty manipulation of the game is all by design because they don’t want the player skins competing with the “premium” skins that they stole away from being player rewards in the game out of pure greed… Then they can pretend that “the high costs aren’t our fault, the players did it”… Beyond insulting…
I would suggest that the players start making some noise about the greedy BS going on with this game…especially now that they are trying to sell it… It’s the only way that players have to affect change in this game because they only care about the money that they can squeeze out of this game… What have they done to improve this game that is not a money-gouging scheme or manipulation??? Not a damn thing… That’s the main underlying problem here, IMO…
Meh. Skins are bollocks. I have the ones I got for free and a couple off the market but it’s basically a set and forget proposition. The only time I remember about it is if I get a ship sploded and the replacement is default skin and I’m like “oh yeah, that’s what that’s supposed to look like”.
You can look at it that way because you are really the only one looking at them, but there are alot of players who really enjoy that aspect of the game… The further problem with SKINR is that there is no way to recoup or reprocess the skins if they don’t sell… If they don’t sell after two or three rounds of putting them up for sale, you’re eating a significant loss… That part is by design too and it’s dirty as hell… For that kind of money, you can buy LTI ships in Star Citizen that you can never loose instead of feeding the outrageous greed behind this game…
First: CCP isn’t the Salvation Army. If you enjoy it, it’s worth paying for it, not?
Second: Nobody forces you to spend a penny, many skins are available for pure ISK which you can earn in the game. Even SKINR made ones. And if you like one that is only for sale for PLEX, you can simply buy PLEX for ISK.
Third: Since all the PLEX you can use are other peoples money, why do you care what other people are doing with their cash? Maybe I won the lottery and I can’t care less to spend 10.000€ on my favourite game? Please, buy my PLEX for ISK and be happy that you didn’t pay a single dollar.
Lol… Yup, there are plenty like that too who don’t really care what their ships look like so long as they do the job… On the other hand, skin sales show that there are alot of people who are into how their ships look…and that’s what they are trying to capitalize upon witn SKINR… Unfortunately, they went way too far using it to fleece the players…
Gee its like a company providing a service and needs to pay its employees as well as maintaining equipment that our beloved game is stored on. If i had a disposable income id probably buy more stuff with RL money.
If SKINR is a cash grab, so are the skins provided by CCP. But hey, it’s all cosmetic, so it doesn’t affect gameplay whatsoever. No skin (heh) off my back.
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