Why do we NOT have access to China cosmetics?

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Shagsbeard wrote:

You think calling it a different name is going to keep people from getting pissed off? You need to meet more people. It's pretty clear you want the game to move to a more pay to win sort of business model. It's fine in China, because they started that way and it was clear that was the way they were going. PoE was founded on the principle of "ethical micro-transactions" and GGG would lose pretty much everything by breaking that trust.

Extending the character's inventory space would be too great an advantage to allow for a fee. They're treading thin ice with stashes, get pretty grey on the "ethical" scale. But they're consistent. We know about that, and they've not gone beyond it. Allowing some players to have larger inventories would open that old wound.

Shagsbeard did a great job explaining it, I think.

Imagine being upset by 'western' PoE not having chinese micro transactions that are most likely pay2win ...

at one point, if it's still even there, you could pay $230 or something dollars to get a pet that picks up currency. that doesn't belong in the real version of PoE, that only belongs in the chinese shilled money only version of PoE

Most people probably don't even realize PoE Taiwan also exists as its own separate thing. It isn't as substantially different from the international version as PoE China, but they do have some stuff that we don't have.

Such as...I know you can buy refund points from their MTX shop. They also have PVP seasons and PVP events. The Taiwan market isn't very big for a game like PoE, but there likely wouldn't be any market at all if there was no emphasis on PVP. There are some other minor differences, or at least there have been in the past. It's been quite a while since I've seen what all they have going on.

But anyway, different markets get different features all the time in online games. There is absolutely nothing new about this.

Yeah i like our international PoE just as it is <3.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

An example of that, close to home: Coke (the beverage) in the US was sweetened with corn syrup, and Coke in Mexico was sweetened with sugar. It created a black market for Mexican Coke in the US.

Don't get me started on the difference between Irish and US Guinness Stout. Night and Day.

Sorry, but my curiosity demands that I get you started: What does Irish Guinness taste like?

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gibbousmoon wrote:

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Shagsbeard wrote:

An example of that, close to home: Coke (the beverage) in the US was sweetened with corn syrup, and Coke in Mexico was sweetened with sugar. It created a black market for Mexican Coke in the US.

Don't get me started on the difference between Irish and US Guinness Stout. Night and Day.

Sorry, but my curiosity demands that I get you started: What does Irish Guinness taste like?

I too am interested in the answer to that question. I do know though that one of the most delicious brews I've ever had is Guinness on draft.

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Fleshbane wrote:

So apprently the china servers or whatever host diffrent cosmetics apparently tencent decides what we want to buy by not letting us buy them? wtf? anyone have a real reason for this?

Can you say specifically what is this missing mtx that you’re upset about? Most people are assuming you’re referring to the p2w mtxes. But I don’t want to assume that.

This thread sucks without pics. I imagine it's about exclusivity to get them to buy more instead of what we have.

One thing they do have in China that would be nice to have over here is a public test server. And they get some rewards for actually testing and providing constructive feedback.