POE2 Cosmetics Disappointingly Expensive

Every time the prices for PoE mtx annoy me, I go look at Star Citizen and instantly feel better lol. It's barely even a game.

I agree that this model is largely reliant on capturing whales to dump $1000's into, but there's definitely gotta be a happy medium between big price tags to attract whales via exclusivity and cheap prices for people who don't want to spend money. Willing to bet if they found that middle ground for pricing it would increase their revenue significantly. A handful of whales scooping up everything in the store will yield far less than ~200k average people buying an armor set or two every league. The whales are still going to buy everything regardless. Not to mention they're already raking it in with stash tabs.

At the end of the day I'm not super invested in the conversation. There's a lot of cool stuff in the store, but if I don't like the price I simply don't buy the item... IMO cosmetics in an isometric game where you don't really see a whole lot of your character aren't worth the investment to me. The only time I really "see" my character is in the login screen. It's not like some games where there's a whole "fashion" aspect to the game that people bite into. Maybe if the skins were customizable and able to be piece-mealed together I would care about them more.

I'm more apt to spend money on hideout items, portals, etc etc since I see a lot more of that during gameplay.