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Kopaka
Dec Member 2023

Kopaka

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If you're the kind of person who likes using chameleon extracts, you hate how it locks you into that skin colour even if you only want it while wearing one certain outfit.

Chameleon extracts, in my opinion, should unlock the skin colour for a month and you can change to that colour and back as much as you like while it's unlocked.

Additionally, there should be a more expensive version. Lets call it the Pure Chameleon Essence. When you use THIS one, the skin tone you select is just permanently unlocked for you to use whenever you feel like it. I'd pay 800 runecoins for that, I don't know about ya'll. Not suggesting that you rob us blind over this, but I'm just saying. We want it.

20-Oct-2021 18:52:40

Vengeance of
Mar Member 2018

Vengeance of

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Personally, I think Extracts should work like the buyable hair/facial hair settings and be unlimited use by default. The Makeover Mage already has functionality to offer unlimited "event" colours (from old Premier Club promotions IIRC), so maybe it's time to offer these skin colours as part of that menu if you've already bought them?

21-Oct-2021 02:10:37

Kopaka
Dec Member 2023

Kopaka

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Thing is, to me, there's good reason for some items in the store to be repeat purchases. They need to constantly make money to maintain the game.

Obviously a healthy portion (probably the lion's share) comes from subscriptions, but for other things to contribute as well seems like a fine thing to me.

It's sad how steep the Chameleon Extract prices are, but I definitely have bought a fair few, so deep down I must think it's a fair price.

21-Oct-2021 02:30:17

WTFmybacon
Oct Member 2010

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I would indeed love it if they sold a separate item to permanent unlock a skin colour.
I'm currently using the Zamorak red colour (which I have been using since the summer beach party) and don't want to switch to any other colours anymore due to the need of acquiring another extract if I want to switch back to that.
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

21-Oct-2021 15:52:30

Trancers
Oct Member 2015

Trancers

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Vengeance of said :
Personally, I think Extracts should work like the buyable hair/facial hair settings and be unlimited use by default. The Makeover Mage already has functionality to offer unlimited "event" colours (from old Premier Club promotions IIRC), so maybe it's time to offer these skin colours as part of that menu if you've already bought them?
I support this idea

22-Oct-2021 04:09:35

Ladyolake
Jan Member 2008

Ladyolake

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I wish they would be a perm unlock even if they doubled price of 1 that way once its unlocked then thats it.

I can see them raising cost if its perm but personally i would be all for that. The richest person is not who has the most. It is who Needs the least.

25-Oct-2021 16:44:08

Vengeance of
Mar Member 2018

Vengeance of

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Ladyolake said :
I wish they would be a perm unlock even if they doubled price of 1 that way once its unlocked then thats it.

I can see them raising cost if its perm but personally i would be all for that.

Perhaps I'm being a little too optimistic, but I don't think making it a permanent unlock would necessarily mean increasing the price.

The reason for this? I think making the extracts permanent would increase the number of people buying them. I imagine there's a fairly large untapped market of people who would buy extracts if they weren't a one-time thing, as well as people who have already bought one but were turned off from buying more because they'd lose their current one.

I'd like to think that the increased sales that this update would cause would more than outweigh the loss of being able to charge people multiple times for the same colour.

31-Oct-2021 04:28:52

Kopaka
Dec Member 2023

Kopaka

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Vengeance of said :
Perhaps I'm being a little too optimistic, but I don't think making it a permanent unlock would necessarily mean increasing the price.

The reason for this? I think making the extracts permanent would increase the number of people buying them. I imagine there's a fairly large untapped market of people who would buy extracts if they weren't a one-time thing, as well as people who have already bought one but were turned off from buying more because they'd lose their current one.

I'd like to think that the increased sales that this update would cause would more than outweigh the loss of being able to charge people multiple times for the same colour. You know I think you're actually totally right.

Currently there are twenty three chameleon skin colours available. I've used at most five. If every time I bought one, it was there for me to use and reuse forever, I would be quite willing to bet I'd have bought more like 10 or 15 by now. Not to mention, how hard would it be to add more colours? I'm sure it's a little more complicated than it seems, but surely they could amp up the 23 to 50 or even a full-fledged colour-picker similar to the custom outfit colours.

31-Oct-2021 06:59:44

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