As a person who started playig at the end of season 1 and missed the legendary curse I know the frustration of missing a time-limited cosmetic. However recently I have noticed that some of the new cosmetics that may be obtained through the time-limited events are now locked behind commedations. So everything I grinded so hard for may then later be unlocked by someone by simply doing a commedation. The idea isn't bad, its just that I believe that either all time-limited cosmetics should remain time-limited, or all of them should become available for players via commedations. It just feels sad when I see some guy who downloaded the game yesterday about how cool he is cuz he bought a barrel hide emote from larina. Like seriously, Rare, getting something in-between is just frustrating.
Time-limited cosmetics
The unfortunate thing about time limited in this game specifically is that a lot of the older cosmetics that pop up in the organic experience are held by those that took literally years off of the game. In many cases we are talking nearly 3 years or 3 years of inactivity.
Sure, there are old timers that are also long timers but it's a bit silly imo to stay so true to the first year exclusivity of cosmetics when the origins of this game are based on a lot of people bouncing for significant amounts of time due to lack of content at the beginning and then bouncing back in when the game was booming.
Not all, but many, especially in organic adventure situations.I get why they do it but it's still odd to see the reality of the decision.
The recolor thing works out alright when we are talking time limited that is basically just people logging in at certain times without any significant effort put in. I don't like recolors on things of significance like the arena weapons but for stuff that is just basically being around early on (even if only for a short time) I think the recolors work alright.
It's a situation of peacocking where people that have invested thousands and thousands of hours into the environment don't have access to stuff that people got for maybe only a few days or weeks of activity years ago. A peacock system is stronger when it's based on significance and substance not just being around at a specific time or just paying for it.
I would hook up people that have consistently contributed for long amounts of time and hit activity marks but I personally don't see being around at a time without significant activity context beyond that to be a strong foundation for a system like the one we have.
There is a reason that legendary hunter is so well respected even though many don't even like or care about fishing, significance/significant effort, in a peacocking system it's important.
Unfortunately Rare won't ever bring back all time limited cosmetics and lock them behind commendations...
So best plan B is a constant flow of time limited cosmetics so that players can always feel they have special cosmetics for them.
Rare messed up bad by stopping time limited cosmetics at the start of seasons at the same quantity and quality as they were before resulting in the whole PL curse dilemma. Now if/when the bring back PL curse they tell players from pre adventures that they just don't matter and don't deserve the same quality and quantity of time limited cosmetics as players before and after them receive. If they brought a constant stream of time limited cosmetics during seasons no one would complain about PL curse being brought back but now it is really the only cosmetic to show you played at the time...
In short unless Rare makes the choice they never will of brining back all time limited cosmetics, the constant stream of time limited cosmetics is the second best thing.
Cosmetics don't change the way you play; time cosmetics are good for business too. Previously time limited cosmetics that have been confirmed time limited; will stay time limited. Anything else; like the Legendary Curse or barrel hide have not been confirmed IIRC, and are only missing from Larinna's stock due to bugs or issues.
@guyrza sagte in Time-limited cosmetics:
As a person who started playig at the end of season 1 and missed the legendary curse I know the frustration of missing a time-limited cosmetic.
Where has it ever been said, that the legendary curse is time-limited? Or any of the other season cosmetics?
Totally agree.
The Wandering Reaper ship set is probably my favourite ship set in the game yet i've never actually seen it in-game myself even after around 800 hours of play. I've only ever seen it through watching streamers like Boxy and Beard.
I've no idea what number of players unlocked it when it was available but i'd hazard a guess that a large percentage of them don't even play anymore which is a shame because i'd love to run into someone who has it.
That goes for all the time-limited stuff, you hardly see any of it on the seas which seems like a real shame to me.
@goofythescot Hopefully you run into me and my crew sometime. We have a laugh. I decorate the boat but always have someone on the crew pick a color. I mix and match and always use atleast 1-3 time limited cosmetics. The only rule is Sailor or Golden Sailor cannons.
It's been awhile since I ran Wandering Reaper hull. We use the different reaper sails often.
@captain-coel You never can tell who you'll meet out on the seas!
Golden Sailor cannons, that's another one i missed out on that i'd use probably 99% of the time :( They release so many reskins, why not a Silver Sailor cannon? A Blue Sailor cannon....... etc etc, simple to implement and would give us far more choice, even hide them behind commendations.
@schwammlgott Rare developers mentioned multiple times that these cosmetics will not be brought back. Take the same legendary curse as an example
@guyrza they have actually stated the opposite. And said that season rewards will mostly come back. Only things tied to the theme of the season would stay locked.
@goofythescot said in Time-limited cosmetics:
@guyrza barrel hide came back......
Yet, like with all other Seasonal items (Except seasonal themed, sails, scar, tattoo) it was never time exclusive, nor meant to be time limited.
All items in seasonal progressions (except the formal mentioned items) are meant to come back one day, ones the devs find a "suitable way" to bring them back.
So yes, PL curse will be returning, most likely behind some commendation or hefty price tag.
Same can't be said for Y1 items though.@schwammlgott only seasonal cosmetics confirmed to be time limited are those that have the season name in them. Sails, flags, Tattoos, Scars, Facepaints and Titles.
@galactic-geek about yr1 cosmetics why dont they make a mix of it like for example
make it was harder 5 times harder then ppl who played the event that time to get a certain item and make it time limited adventure for example u have one week to light 100 lantern or 1 day it would be up to rare@captain-coel they said they wont coming back the "never " part u just added that so ye there's always a possibility like the mate above u said time limited isn't forever time limited
@captainrasha after their last mistake with it. They said they won't be bringing back year 1 cosmetics.
@captainrasha never coming back and won’t be coming back are the same thing. Geek was saying they should adopt a new approach, not that they’re already doing that.
