Give back the unique gold curse

@stucktrippin

Okay let's talk about the melodrama over this whole "unique curse" thing. I'm not saying you're wrong for wanting to be unique, but you're directing your criticism at the wrong thing here.

1. The Gold Hoarder Curse was previously allocated from a collection of like 12 NPC presets I think. So it is a guarantee that people were ending up with the same exact curse as you anyway. Calling it unique is an overstatement. "Semi-unique" would be more appropriate.

2. Not to mention, it is literally a single vanity cosmetic that appears on your skin. It's not a jacket or hat. A different gold pattern is not something that is readily noticeable without closer examination, and even less so if you're wearing a Jacket or anything else that would obscure it for that matter.

3. A lot of players were getting screwed by RNG. It is objectively more fair to everyone to implement the single developer intended design. This design is so much better than the old ones anyway. The difference is that the old one was made for NPCs and took into account where clothing would or wouldn't cover on their bodies. The new one is designed with the player in mind, and as such covers the body in a way that a player reward should.

Honestly, this isn't that big a deal. I think the right thing for them to do at this point is to allow for the NPC presets to be available as options since they made the mistake of allowing players to get the NPC presets in the first place. But reverting it back altogether is not fair.

All I'm saying is that it's a bit overdramatic for someone to sit here and act like this Gold Hoarder curse change has drawn the line in the sand between unique or not unique, because this thing doesn't make anyone that much more unique, and even then it's in such a subtle capacity that it doesn't really matter. This really isn't going to be the thing that makes you stand out from the crowd.

You want to be unique. Don't we all. It is a valid criticism, but this Gold Hoarder curse thing isn't gonna do it for you, so just enjoy what you've got and don't act like it's pointless to have now.

What we should really be asking for is more new cosmetic sets and plenty of alternate color schemes for the ones we do have.

@whip-dastardly said in Give back the unique gold curse:

@stucktrippin I agree wholeheartedly. The RNG aspect is really what made the curse a curse. now this current version is what I feel the worst parts of all the Curses versions. Now were all the same , yet again, and to me that is crazy for a game holistically about cosmetics.

Do you honestly think a single cosmetic that puts gold on your skin is what’s making the difference between being unique or not? Because it certainly isn’t. It’s not a hat or jacket. The “unique” effect from it was so subtle it doesn’t matter and it wasn’t really all that unique considering people could end up with the same pattern as you anyway.

The melodrama and temper tantrums over this are absolutely astounding to me.

@chronodusk what youre doing is getting into semantics, I realize there is a set amount of presets and there will be some out there who do look the same. Like 1 percent of players have that curse at all, let alone have the same one. Now we all do? Pointless, just makes it another "meh" reward for all of us who actually manage to get everything done. It was a genuine feeling to unlock the curse with other people and compare ourselves and see that we arent just carbon copys of one another. Now that extra bit is gone, and they picked probably the most "in your face" curse there is. Maybe running that by everybody who actually has it would have been a good suggestion. You can stop over reaching with the "temper tantrum" stuff, this site is here for a reason and nobody really asked you, this is purely for Rare to see if enough people get behind that they could maybe implement a change. So direct your extememly negative and derogatory energy elsewhere. It either sounds like you really dont care about what you earn or look like, or you just dont have the curse to see for yourself. I very much enjoyed the way i looked before, now I do not. That isnt up for debate with you or anybody. What I do know is that, of all the people ive played with every day, ive seen like maybe 5 people with the curse. Every one of them, and even people without the curse dont like the way it looks now. So rather than just letting RNG make a few people unhappy, this illogical change was made and universally made people unhappy. What youre not understanding is, there isnt much for me to earn on this game anymore. So when I slam hours into a game to get a single reward, im going to hold a strong opinion of what I get. That was the only thing worth getting out of the entire tall tales, i have all ghost and legend customs, let alone loads of regular customs so I didnt pay much attention to any other reward, theres no need to. Everybody needs to understand that the end game players like myself are getting burnt out over these tiny rewards, and then changes come that we dont like on top of it.. Its not melodramatic, its fact. I talk to other people on lfg almost everyday who are end game and we all agree, time and time again. You dont need to agree, but dont use my post as a source for arguments. If you feel its not that important, you could just ignore the post and laugh to yourself about how dumb it sounds to you.

@stucktrippin I was disappointed to in the way they "fixed" it, even when i know they would surely do that instead of other options everyone talked about

I really wished for a Way to let us choose out of all those varietys what we like best for us
That way the curse still would been "unique"
I didnt like my random one since there was almost No gold and the female character made it even less
But now, i dont even have to show other how mine looks since its the same anyway

Now we all look the same and even with more gold now that