One of the nice things City of Heroes’ rogue servers did for the community was open up all the costume slots for everyone. Obviously, since the game is no longer free-to-play, there’s no need to incentivize people to pay for more costumes, or costume pieces or any of that. Just go in and make as many costumes as you wanna and toggle between them at will. At worst, it’s only going to cost you some in-game inf.
Here’s the thing: I don’t use them. It’s weird, right? This is a game where I love to make costumes and roll new toons and concepts. And yet I seldom have more than one or two costumes per toon. Even on the live servers, I usually didn’t roll extra costumes so that I could switch between them like outfits; I would roll an extra costume as a replacement for one I was tired of, and I’d seldom go back to the old one. I suppose that once I have my character’s “look,” I don’t really want to muck with it.
And I kinda do this in a lot of MMOs with cosmetic and tmog options. Am I broken? Do you folks change your MMO toons’ outfits frequently? Do you change them for roleplay purposes or some other reason?
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