Dernier*Cri Prêt à Porter: New Expensive Shop Idea, ja!

Ja?

Ja	87.0%	[ 254 ]
No	13.0%	[ 38 ]
Total Votes:			[ 292 ]

[Ariel Yardena Davidson]

Petition started! Sign is good, ja!!!

please <3 thread if you like the idea
REBOOTED so please ignore the date-stamp.

You tired of Cash Shop updates? Why not get something that's gold-expensive?

i wouldn't particularly mind if Gaia staff posted here, and i don't mean mods ...




EDIT, thanks to a conversation between myself, Social Bondage, and Bardic.

Quote:

Basically, this store would be a landing area for RIG/MC and EI ideas (and EI recolors) that didn't quite make the cut but could be popular in a gold shop update. However, unlike D-C, this store would not be allowed to phase out on a consistent basis with new inventory. It must be a permanent store.

The primary concern is whether this kind of shop would hinder Gaia's income while working as a gold sink, but that'd be something for the developers and marketing team to decide. The summary of this suggest, ultimately, is that we have a new store for high-quality items that work on their own instead of being status markers, while not being of too distant a price range.

Or, if you want a simpler idea - a shop with goods that are higher quality than most gold shop items, but less so than Dernier*Cri items, at a price range between 100k and 1000k. It would work as a permanent shop and provide a larger possibility of a gold sink.

In any case, Dernier-Cri only does so much. Sure, it's a major sink, but only the super-rich and Booty Grab-addicted quester can afford that crap, and even then, we're still generating too much gold.

We need another shop that's still high-end but more reasonable. Say ... 100,000 on the low end and 1,250,000 at the high end for prices.


It'll work as another sink and would be more accessible to those who want stylish items, but not at the price of mentally taxing oneself collecting gold that's inexplicably being created by fish.

This isn't an item suggestion thread. Merely a STORE idea that should be pushed. At the minimum, more EXPENSIVE lines.

Heck Gaia made an item that fits this logic:


OOOOOR
ITEM SET IDEAS
Lines inspired by
Anne Valérie Hash - click Les Collections
Balenciaga - click Collection
Chanel
Dior Men and women
Christian Lacroix (Let's go for collections released after the Winter 2003 show?)
Yves Saint Laurent
Any Armani Line

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[HighClass Badass]

Agree fullheartedly with the idea, think you shoulda waited for the "OMG THEY CHANCED DA LAYOUTTTT" Whining to die down first...

[Kain-Senpai]

It's actually a really sound idea. I quite like this very much.
I love the D*C items, but they are aimed for the High-Class users, not the Middle/Middle-Poor-Class users. A store with items priced for Middle/Middle-Poor Class users is fantastic, and I think would do more good than D*C.

[Ariel Yardena Davidson]

i know - i HATE the layout xD

But i'm keeping this up.

[Keiko Mystere]

I'd love this. xD

Hey, there might be a chance for some nice, affordable, noninflatable quality items, and I think this is the way to go about it. xD

[Ariel Yardena Davidson]

i think this was ... a 3 month old idea?

[The Magnificent Unsu]

That would be marvelous. The D*C items are okay, but NOT worth how much they are. A lower-priced item shop for good, quality items, would be amazing.

[Peach Drops]

EI pose recolors in a permanent store?
Am I understanding this correctly?

I do like the idea of the shop for middle-class Gaian's like myself.

[Queen-of-the-Rogue]

This looks very interesting and I agree. Besides half the stuff in DC is just horrible besides being for the Super Rich.

[OtakuJeannie]

I find one thing wrong with your suggestion, it's pushing the regular gold shop items even further down by creating another tier, perhaps more high quality items in our existing gold shops like January's and February's updates?

[Ariel Yardena Davidson]

OtakuJeannie

I find one thing wrong with your suggestion, it's pushing the regular gold shop items even further down by creating another tier, perhaps more high quality items in our existing gold shops like January's and February's updates?

The idea's to try and create a line that's more expensive and yet accessible to many.

[lambs and lions]

I am all for items that cost more than gold shop items but less than DC items. But as a DC customer I don't want it to associated with DC. I like the idea of DC and don't want it watered down.

I think if they made a whole new store, that would be great. I think EI recolors would be great and easy way for them to fill the store with items and not really take out much resources. Really, how much effort does it take to actually recolor something? We also need something happening south of barton housing. Maybe a new settlement could pop up.

[Ariel Yardena Davidson]

Hell, my alt, Felix Jude Virgo, grayscaled the lowtoppies!

[tsukune_713]

sounds good ^.^
i would like new ei recolors ^.^
and they should add more items in dc too, or bring back merlins hat in it i would buy it if they had it again