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 Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 7:09 pm
If you haven't read it yet: Volume 1Volume 2It appears to be a thinly-veiled marketing scheme combined with abysmal so-called "fashion advice". The marketing scheme posts thus far have been mildly amusing but the fashion advice posts have been severely lacking. The first gave advice for cheap avatars that were frankly very mediocre at best and (in the case of the male examples) outright awful. The second explained the wonderful fashion of the "Glistening Skin" pose of Lusty Scoundrel. I have to say that no-one liked Lusty when it came out. It was a total bust. You could get it for as little as 6k and I didn't see it incorporated in any nice avatars. It's only been since the ralliers have jacked up it's perceived value that I've seen anyone wearing it or saying they liked it at all.
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 8:21 am
Actually, while I do agree with your assessment of the fashin insider posts, I don't agree with what you said about lusty. The whole usefulness of it is with darker skins, especially colored ones. It acts as having a white tattoo, which is really useful sometimes.
I don't think it's current price is worth paying, but having paid a lot less when it was released I don't think it's a bad item to have.
I believe the Fashion Insider issues could have more examples, maybe ones that won the arena when talking about specific items (with owner's consent maybe). Also more general help, like what is matching and themes. Oh, and choose cheaper, more versatile items mostly shop and not cash/MC.
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 8:41 am
They acted like the Lusty skin was no money at all. That kind of upset me, like saying "Spend your time on Gaia so you can have bad avatars like we're putting up!" They weren't even perceiving it as a new spin on the item, these are kind of overdone schemes.
The Owl insider was nice for seeing versatility, but we're not going to really see that until the items stop moving. The avatar itself was bad, but she was trying so hard to make it seem like a good item. A for effort, but it was hardly commendable.
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 7:04 pm
(I'm lazy. PI = Premium Item = basically the cash shop items.)
I really don't like their thinly veiled ads. If they're going to advertise items, they might as well make good-looking avatars. Then they'd make me want the items. As it stands, I think the outfits look like bad tekteks. I would only want those items in order to show people that they can look good.
With all that said, I think they're hitting the right target audience. Anyone who's fashionable don't need these posts. They know what they want when they see it. They know what they like. None of that advice should be new to them. Therefore, they'd probably also see through the advice and realize that it's just a couple ads.
Anyone who's not fashionable might actually think that they're getting great advice. (The advice is okay. But the execution is bad.) They might not see the obvious market ploy. They might actually... be swayed and quest the featured items. If the example posts looked too good, those people might think it's too complicated. Make a flawed outfit and it'll be like, "Hey! I can look just like that cool mod if I just owned that one item!"
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I've edited the post. Up there's probably my main point. And, as much as I hate to complain or say anything bad about the work that people have done... The rest of this is just that. > <;;
They do have some good tips, but I swear they're overshadowed by a "buy this expensive item or you won't look good!" attitude.
I can understand that they might have some trouble with the budget avatars since lots of the versatile items are expensive. But even their expensive examples don't have much style. There are cheaper outfits that can look better, matching or not.
The advice on working with a budget basically was to earn more gold to save up for expensive multi-pose items. Um, wrong. The whole point of working on a budget is working within that budget... not being told to save up more gold to buy expensive items.
But it is true. It's good to have a few versatile multi-pose items. And it's good that the person in the first issue tried to use cheap multi-pose items. The titan's legacy examples were okay. However, the corallus egg isn't very versatile. Notice that male example 2 lacks the corallus egg. Hmm... maybe that EI isn't versatile enough for more than one outfit. That just undermined the advice. Since the item wasn't versatile, it was chosen just because it's an EI. That post was more like, "Wear EIs and you'll be cool." (Which is one of the unspoken laws of Gaia. People who wear PIs obviously have something better to say than a PI-less avatar. If you can't tell already, I don't like that point of view. However, it is true as a general view so at least they were honest.)
(But really, why not attempt to use the cape for a second outfit? It's the most versatile pose, in my opinion. ^^;; )
I also laughed at the lusty scoundrel post. XD No one cared about that item when it was released. It was good for a wig or for the petals... but few people used the sweat. It's a versatile item, but we had less skins. We had the superior form, masterpieces and... the body dyes, maybe. So its versatility as a white tattoo wasn't as evident. {Checked the facts. The body dyes were released the month before Lusty. So we had enough skins for the body dye to look like a good white tattoo. Guess people just didn't like it.}
The sweat didn't become popular until some summer event. For some reason, people wanted to look like they got splashed with water and were wet. The item skyrocketed. I swear it was the summer camp event, not that summer water fight event because it just didn't make sense to me. So yeah, I just find the item itself to be amusing. > <
Aside from that... It's already a popular item. It doesn't need the advertisement. And we weren't told anything new. People already use it to look sweaty or wet or... shiny.
What bothered me most about that post was that it highlighted the downfall of most multi-pose items. We have many MCs that only have one versatile pose. Why should we have to search through all our MCs to find the few versatile poses? Why can't more of them be versatile?
I think that one of the next volumes needs to include a post about the versatility of gold shop items. People don't need to know about the versatility of PIs. Those items are only useful if you have a good base of gold shop items to pair it with. (Or have lots of PI clothing.) What is needed is clothing. The good basic clothing usually comes from the gold shops. They need to see how to make good basic outfits and use PIs as accents. Or how to choose a PI, then make a good basic outfit around it. Not outfits that only look semi-okay because the outfit includes a PI. "Oh wow. A PI. That person is cool!"
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Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 9:06 am
Well, the water festival happened in 07, a year before Lusty was released so it definitely wasn't that one (though it wold have made more sense but the chronology does not support it). Then we had the Olympics in '08. Not sure why people would have been excited about looking wet for Camp Chaos last year but I can't honestly think of any other reason the sweaty skin might have shot up.
But even though body dye was released before Lusty not many people had the body dye for a long time because it was hard to get. I still see lots of people questing five hundred whatever colored inks even now so that's likely why the white tattoo aspect of the sweaty skin wasn't realized.
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