Will the subscriber concierge weapons be converted to normal weapons with skins, so we can use them without fear of permanent loss?
TL;DRNothing is decided on converting subscriber weapons to skins, but they hope reputation-based vendors will let players reclaim lost items, with no ETA, and respray-in-skin ideas are being discussed.
I'm going to go ahead and jump on that one a little bit. Nothing's been decided about converting them to the skins or the paint systems. But as far as the permanent loss, one of the things that we're driving towards is using the reputation system to resolve that issue. Basically, as the reputation system comes online and gets further developed, one of the things that we're exploring with the sub team and the US PU feature team is to have subscriber vendors in locations, where you can basically go and reclaim your subscriber items if you've lost them. So I think that's how we'd want to address that first. As always, things are subject to change. We may find a different solution, a better solution down the road. But that is the angle that we are driving towards at the moment. No ETA. It's all dependent on the continuing evolution of the reputation system. But when it's ready for us, that's what we're hoping for.
I think on a technical level, the short answer would be yes, if we want to convert it over to the system as well. What we're trying our best to get away from is everything being unique. And so we want to be able to set up the weapons in the same manner completely. So from a technical standpoint, we want the system to be all-encompassing and allow us to do whatever we need to do. The rest of it, what Jared just said.
Yeah, and just to speak quickly from our point of view as well, because like Ben said, we've been having a lot of discussions about this recently, and as Jared said, nothing has been set in stone. But an idea that we have had is essentially, you keep the weapon that you've got. You might have had this P4-AR for a thousand hours in the game. It's just a weapon, but you might be able to take that to different places and get it resprayed. So if, for example, you did have a subscriber skin available to you through reputation, then even if you lose that weapon, you might be able to take another one that you've just bought because you lost all of your stuff, and go and get that resprayed in that same skin. So while I'm not saying that is the plan, that's something that's been thrown around internally at the moment.
What you can take from it is that we have multiple options to pursue and to explore.
It's a solvable problem.
It's a solvable problem. It will be solved. It all depends on how it interacts with multiple other game systems.