what is stopping me from purchasing a lot of sets

Psst...BW.... It would add diversity and promote Cartel Market sales.

It only costs alot of credits to change your look if you do it with end game mods and had augmented all your items. Otherwise this is only a problem for casuals that don't run dailies. If you cared enough about your character, you'd earn the money to get it to look how you want to look and that is the reward you get for your effort. The cost is high to limit inflation in the economy. That's why there are so many credit sinks in the game.

Who is being hurt by restricting customization?

Free to play players: These guys are being hurt because less money is being invested into the game. With high costs in changing gear, people are not willing to spend as much real money in the Cartel Market purchasing outfits. Why spend a lot of money in real life and then turn around and do the same thing in game just to change your look if you are satisfied with your current look.

People that enjoy customizing: I left this game after the original Rakgoul event because I was sick and tired of how all my characters looked. I just came back because of all the customization changes. I still find it extremely lacking and have not had to spend a single dime in Cartel Points because the few outfits I purchased with my accrued points (security key) are all I am willing to afford due to the cost in changing out mods.

Bioware: Bioware is making less revenue because players have restrictions which stop player from spending money. The restrictions offer nothing to the game but another money sink, which is decent, but could be applied to purchasing a whole new "set" of outfit tabs via in game money instead of constantly removing mods.

I don't think that's a correct assessment. Most F2P players don't do endgame as they would have to buy weekly passes for that. That means they don't have as much in cost to add mods. What they can craft is sufficient so there is no need for them to get expensive mods. Also the CM items are a way of making in game gold. Even if they don't need or want the items themselves, they can sell really well on the GTN.



This is partially true but customisation is 10 times better than it was. Where I think you are wrong is that you seem to assume that just because you don't spend much on the CM others don't either. A lot of peopel do spend a lot in the CM as far as I can tell. Why do I think that? First of all because of my guildies and friends. I know people who buy 2 or 3 crates with each shipment but also the amount of CM stuff on the GTN shows that a lot of people are buying them.



This is completely false. Obviously the CM sales are doing quite well. So BW seems to be doing quite well. There are more and more restrictions being lifted, specifically for subs. You see I remember times very well when there were very few armour looks to choose from and that removing mods from gear was at least 3 times as expensive as it is now and there was no way to send bound mods to alts.

Now, don't get me wrong. I would like there to be more freedom in being able to change the look of your character without spending a ton on it. You see when you do endgame you have augments. I don't even care so much about the mods swapping on the 7 armour items which costs around 200-300K max. But to swap augmentations you need to augment each gear set and for 7 armour items that costs about 700k. That's where it gets silly.

So yeh I agree that it would be a great idea to have outfits that could skin "over" your armour so you could keep your armour where it is but change your look with a few clicks only. I also find that once I've foind the sort of best look for my character that's what it is and stays. Especially after augmenting the gear.

You simply add cosmetic slots to the character; dear old FlyFF had this in place is time time immemorial.

With cosmetic slots you leave your armor pieces in the regular armor slots and equip cosmetic pieces in, surprise surprise, your cosmetic slots. A cosmetic piece will simply overrule (visually) the respective armor piece. Done and done.

Psst...BW.... It would add diversity and promote Cartel Market sales.