You made a big mistake BW on the new Turncoat armor

Yup, one huge thread and maybe only Thana's outfit made it...

It's a joke. I don't mean that as a criticism, I mean it literally.

For all of these people banging on about the Pareto Principle and marketing budgets nobody seemingly bothered to read the item description.

"This <armor piece> was recovered by Cartel Associate N4-T3 on his final day of service"

I imagine that a guy in the company called Nate (N4t3) has just left for another job. Hence the turncoat armor and final day of service thing.

People in this thread need to learn more about the Pareto principle. This item is a very clear example of it.

To say it quickly.. about 20% of a shop's products make about 80% of the shop's income, while the 80% other items make only 20% of the shop's income. Why even have those 80% other items you might say? Well because if you don't have a complete enough set of items to buy, people won't come to your shop to get those 20% items, but chose to go to a shop that does sell those few items they do have that you do not.

It is a simple marketing principle about making sure your stock of items is broad enough to make sure people spend money in your shop, and not others.

Having items like this, or Huttsbane, are all about that same principle. You release these items for a very small subset of your customer base, in this case probably Roleplayers looking for a 'civilian' outfit, to make sure your stock is complete enough. Once people feel they can get everything they want from you, they will stay more loyal to your shop.

So.. from just the Pareto principle, you can say that for every Valiant Jedi set, or for every other good looking set everyone will love, you need to have 4 less universally enjoyed sets to ensure your stock is broad enough to appeal to your entire market.

Understand this principle, and you understand why Bioware 'wastes' slots of 'armor development' on these things. and yes, they are just skins already available in game made adaptive. A simple, quickly made item is perfect to be in the 80% group.. while the star sets, the unique ones, need to be in the 20% group. Cost vs Reward.. they never expected you all to buy this item.

Wow, just Wow on this thread. Seriously?

It's not like you are forced to buy anything they put up on the Cartel shop, so who cares? I like the speeder, so I bought it. I looked at the Turncoat clothes, and didn't, so I didn't buy it, and that is where my thinking of it ended, until I saw this pile of whinge.

Let it go. Keep this kind of anger up it's likely to cause an ulcer, or a heart attack, or something equally as bad.

It's just something on a computer game store. If you don't like it, don't support it and move on, it's really that simple.

It says 900 cartel points when it clearly should only be 9.

Of all the cool armors that NPC characters in this game were you actually tok the time
putting in this armor that looks like a lvl 3 outfit from a starter planet...................

How about the Alderaan Trooper outfits or Alderaan sentinel guard outfits
what ever looks 100 times better

BTW something tells me the reason the Huttbane outfit is on 50% sale is because no one bought it.
You guys really need mayor help on outfits and design in this game, we told you 1000 times over and over.

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I do not understand all this crying about some armour that they can buy.
If you do not like it well..hmm lets see..hmm do not buy it?
If it was a pve drop item that is something completly different..but a cartel item.
pls get real!

Wow, just Wow on this thread. Seriously?

It's not like you are forced to buy anything they put up on the Cartel shop, so who cares? I like the speeder, so I bought it. I looked at the Turncoat clothes, and didn't, so I didn't buy it, and that is where my thinking of it ended, until I saw this pile of whinge.

Let it go. Keep this kind of anger up it's likely to cause an ulcer, or a heart attack, or something equally as bad.

It's just something on a computer game store. If you don't like it, don't support it and move on, it's really that simple.

On another note, when I saw the name Turncoat Armor Set, I was hoping it was going to be Malgus' armor which would have implied Satele Shan's armor would soon follow.