Customizable skins

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Before I begin, I want to address some things first
yes, the idea isn’t original.
yes, it would take a LOT of time to implement.
Yes, maintenance mode.

However, if by any chance there is an employee that be on these forums just… you know take a note of it give it a though.

Everyone has a skin for a character that they love the concept really like the ability style but cannot stand any of the character colors.
I for one love the purple abilities on widowmaker nova love the outfit but I can’t stand her pale skin that makes her look like she hasn’t seen the sun in over 20 years the white and yellow jumpsuits are just an eyesore to me.
and I’m sure there are others that everyone else has that have the similar love/hate relationship.

so, I propose a new tier of cosmetics called mythic skins where a player picks one of the other skins and have control over how the body looks. the only thing that they cannot change is the ability appearance so if you decide to buy a mythic skin to change arc-angel Diablo his fire will still be blue each player has a limit to 3 per character.

the menu would be like looking at a character in the profile. (you know where it states how many games you played KDA ect ect)
the character will be in one half and the other side will consist of multiple tabs and the color palate. along with a play animation button when the character would either taunt, dance or the lock in animation

Example: spirit healer Auriel
she would have three tabs
body color
cloth color
cloth edge colour
and then
color palate

simple right? each skin would have more or less tabs depending on the amount of aspects on each skin, which is entirely up to blizzard to decide.
special aspects would remain unchangeable, so you HAVE to play queen of mecha kerrigan to have the make-up whiskers on that skin

so, let’s talk currency.
I understand that most if not all of the skins would be null at this point so and as such a substantial fee would be needed for the player to do this.
I was thinking, the amount of changeable aspects would decree the amount of shards and gems a play would need to pay to change, this would discourage people making almost unnoticeable changes.
the price will never be lower than the base skin
and the currency will not be taken until you press the finish button

we then come to the issue with limited time skins such as wasteland nova
in order to change the skin’s color you must own at least one of the premade skins
so, if you want a pink prime evil diablo you will need either the base skin or its alternates.

so, let’s say you’ve brought one you’ve made it but realize that you want that blue just a tiny bit darker and adjust the orange.
to change the skin color again it would cost the rarity of the base skin
so, if you want to change an epic skin color again, you’d need to would need to pay 400 shards to change it.

any questions will be answered if you have any, and of course give me thy opinions

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Being able to customize is always nice in my book.

I don’t like the idea where it is a one time creation per purchase.

I would prefer to pay to unlock the ability to customize a skin I own and buy the color options separately for that skin. Each skin you own would have this option. If you own multiple color variants for the same model, you would have to pay to unlock it for each variant. If I do want to change it up, I can do it without paying again. I’m already paying a premium for the customization option and extra for the color options.

FFXIV sells in-game stuff, many of the items aren’t dye-able because then they won’t be able to sell the variant colors.

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I’m just thinking of profitability and sort of veteran things to do
I know a lot of people have a serious build up on gold shards and even gems so I thought it would be okay if it cost more then the ideal amount

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Aspect of Earth Thrall being all green or blue and stuff then still casting red flames just… so yea, it would be nice.

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I gotchu. I think I missed the part of whether one pays in real money or something else.

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both same with real skins

well originally, I was going to say that the abilities would change color but then what would we be paying blizzard to do?

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Or just get rid of the color variant skins and then be able to customize the color of the base skin. If you wanted all of Valla’s reaper skin variants, you can recreate them as long as you have 1, but now you get a much larger variety of colorways plus any colorways you previously had.

Love this idea and I wish it was implemented.

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I feel like this would be counter intuitive though since they’ve already been created, and people have potentially brought said skins with real money or grinded levels with loot crates and shards ect
and there’s also unique details that some skins have that the base didn’t such as aforementioned queen of mecha kerrigan’s make-up whiskers.

your idea is solid from the get-go but now it’s been some time removing the skin variant would be wasted effort they could be used to do more important. FOR EXAMPLE SOME MORE BLOODY MAPS
eh-hum… back to the topic at hand…

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I didn’t think of that.

Well then maybe for special skins that have things other than color changes between skins they could remain as is, but for skins where they’re just recolored just consolidate them into one skin and let the player customize the colors.

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that seem reasonable.
and I doth approve.
however, some shard refund would probably be in order… oh well I said before the skins would be just that little bit overpriced, I’m sure this would definitely compensate that.

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functionally, it would have been better if HotS 2.0 had made all cosmetics into equip-able slots. Pre-made, or packaged skins would then unlock the respective tints players could adjust, so the shop would be about unlocking variety, and not necessarily the specific skin. That way, it makes the grind for loot boxes to fill the collection provide a utility effect, instead of filling the boxes with a lower chance to get the specific thing they actually want.

One part of that idea is frustrated by some skins modifying the core model of a hero, so some cosmetics in that would be incompatible with changing 1 or 2 parts as I suggested, but not necessarily with the ‘mythic’ qualities that you do.

The other advantage of such a system then addresses tournament rules: some skins/effects have been banned on certain maps due to visual confusion. For instance, Angelic Diablo had been banned on sky temple due to the changed cosmetics being harder to see on the sand; the map itself was changed from brightest-day to try to address that, and not all maps can be adjusted for similar concerns so it would have been ‘better’ to allow particular tint edits rather than need to rework maps, at least imo had the groundwork for customizing skin packages had already been done.

I remember when they did Leablo skin and announced they had figured out how to get around certain skeleton/boning issues with skins and cosmetics, but I don’t think any released items actually made use of that beyond Dibbles.

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You’re right, many skins have so much added to them, such as unique animations, altered ability animations, competently new voice lines, hero/skin specific mounts, etc…

I’m one of those idiots who did buy some skins before 2.0., I wouldn’t be against people making customizable skins. There would have to be some vetting process to make sure skins don’t too closely resemble other heroes so it doesn’t get too confusing, or have the KT “Cyberhawk” Sky Temple issues, where his abilities are difficult to see on that map.

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Took me a day to comprehend what you said
but yes that Idea is good

same I brought auirel and her demonic skins as a bundle…
Then they brought out shadow auirel and I just said “mine”

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He’s a literature major by the looks of it… and I’ve been tempted to ask him to simplify some things he says, but then I’ll just be called an idiot for not understanding something so I don’t bother.

He either writes it this way so that people give up and don’t read it, and therefore cannot write a sufficient reply, and then be called out for not reading it… or its just like a normal way he writes. Which is fine if this was a scholarly article, but its a forum for a game.

I am interested on how his text messages look tbh lol.

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nothing to do with that and everything to do with the fact I decide to read posts on this forum either first thing in the morning or late at night
midday I can understand pretty much everything (read the thesaurus when you’re bored and get results) less it be specialist words that the normal crowd can understand.

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If someone needs a thesaurus to understand what another person said, they’d most likely ignore it. That’s my point. I think he does it on purpose. I for one do understand what he says most of the time even if it takes me a second read to do so, but you do see him call out others for not reading and I think that’s why. I could be wrong but its just what I think.

I do admit I read and understand things differently at different times of day, and I think that can lead to many disagreements I’ve had to not only him but others as well, but by that time its not even worth clarifying lol

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except I don’t call people “idiots”, and I write long posts as a means of conveying ‘common ground’ understanding; it takes length to address misconceptions or explain anecdotes people might not have experienced.

Reading/understanding goes a lot better when people stop replacing my posts with boogie-man stories they made up.

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I didn’t necessarily mean that you did, but in general. And yeah I get that. My posts can be lengthy also and at times, but I do question how well things I say can be understood since I often feel the need to repeat myself. Maybe I have a horrible way of explaining things, idk. Personally I never really enjoyed my language courses in hs/college. Or maybe I just need to read dictionaries or thesauruses more often.

I do understand what your posts mean after I use a thesaurus but my main point is that people will tend to disregard things they can’t understand, explain, or find a legitimate counter argument to. I was suggesting that using less advanced words could help since people won’t be so bombarded with words they’ve never seen before. A thesaurus is always there, but its can be more work than someone would want to input.

I hope you get what I meant here, I didn’t mean any disrepect…

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It’s something I really admire about Xen’s posts, they have an impressive grasp on language and just how to use it. I’m a stickler (maybe just my OCD) about using the “correct” word and I’ve often wasted friends time searching for it, where a small word would have done quite fine.

You make a good point about Xen’s style, sometimes a more condensed reply can convey meaning and intent more easily and to more people.

The opposite side of that argument is it’s on people to read Xen’s post correctly. I have also noticed that some posters will deliberately misread your reply no matter how simple and succinct you make the language or length.

There has been a certain individual doing just that over the past couple of weeks.

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Right let’s nip this in the bud shall we?

I do it because I get bored, again nothing to do with this

that is the only thing I wish to say on this matter