The least controversial cash shop addition request ever

WAIT! Don't hit that report button because its another cash shop request thread! Hear me out!

While everyone's out there requesting everything under the sun to be added to the cash shop, I believe there is one thing out there that could give a unity between the supporters and the haters

Why don't we have the option to purchase a real life figurine of our characters? It's something WoW has had for a very long time. Something we can hold in our hands, place on our desks, and try to explain to your co-workers why you have a catgirl sitting on your desk instead of something boring like a family photo!

3D printed characters, who else is with me!?

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Originally Posted by Violyre

Why don't we have the option to purchase a real life figurine of our characters? It's something WoW has had for a very long time. Something we can hold in our hands, place on our desks, and try to explain to your co-workers why you have a catgirl sitting on your desk instead of something boring like a family photo!

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I've actually been for something like this since before ARR's launch. The concept of figure prints was pretty decent, and I think 3-d printing technology has improved since that got started several years ago.

I wanted to but the problem is shipping to my country. :(

It will probably cost 299€ and you can only get it if you grabbed a special "I am awesome" token at the 150€-per-person fanfest.
It will also come with a unique "hold-that-pose!"-emote for ingame, that is otherwise unobtainable and the shipping to EU countries will be no less than at least 50€.

How is this gonna bring unity again? :rolleyes:

(actually, if this was done in any reasonable way, I'd love for that to be my very first figurine, but I have lost all trust in SE concerning merchandise of any kind...)

Love the idea, but I'm not keen to see how much they'll charge for it :X

I support this idea.

That's what I've been missing, a despondent elf sitting on my desk judging everything I do.

If the cost was right, I would adore a 3D printed statuette of my character.

I'd probably buy one for each and every job...at least the ones I have a nice glamour for.

Yes~ I would love to have my army of Bunny Roe's cheering me on as I adventure~

I can only say "Take my money!"

A 3D printing of my character......

Oh god. SE wouldn't be able to take my money fast enough, tbqh.
As bad as that sounds. ;__;

I'd love to have a little figurine model of my main. Maybe a couple...so I can have some in my fav glams.

It would be awesome to see, I thought the WoW statues stopped production a long time ago since it was too expensive and the either had massive flaws or arrived broken. I remember there being issues with staves and thin swords, but the company that produced them was pretty meh on quality control anyways.

I would love to have a statue of my murder ninja maid cat on my desk though. Would be nice to have something tangible like that and maybe something in game to go with it. Seeing as it would be a custom order thing it would be more of a back order log as opposed to the "sorry, sold out lol" we're used to seeing at this point.

I've actually looked into figure designing and construction for this very reason!
But as for the situation of backlogs noted by Alestorm, I doubt that the figures would be custom. I'd bet that they'd design only one costume per job, that being the signature outfit. How many of you would still buy if this were the case? 100% still would.

Depends on Statue size and price.

I don't want to pay too much for a small Statue.

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Originally Posted by Alestorm

It would be awesome to see, I thought the WoW statues stopped production a long time ago since it was too expensive and the either had massive flaws or arrived broken. I remember there being issues with staves and thin swords, but the company that produced them was pretty meh on quality control anyways.

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One site I've bought from before had an issue with a fairly complex figure that the delivery to their shop wasn't even salvagable. What they ended up doing when they had them redone was to make it so the customer had to put some of the pieces together themselves. I don't see this as too big an issue.

It does look like they still make them, at least when I went to find how much those cost.

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Originally Posted by Violyre

. What they ended up doing when they had them redone was to make it so the customer had to put some of the pieces together themselves. I don't see this as too big an issue.

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If I am not mistaken, this is done quite often. For example, the one in the link below is pretty delicate, and assembles at the base and arms.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...8ca54cae3d.jpg

I would love to but what about those who Fantasia ? ^^"

I want a life size version of my femroe

For reasons.

Purely scientific ones.

Really.

It's a cash cow for those who are constantly changing or have tons of alts. xD

There was another of these treads about a year ago, actually got a dev response saying if it got enough up votes they would consider/look into it (for what that statement is worth). ait got 87 votes and died into oblivion. If you want this get your friends to upvote it. +1 from me

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Originally Posted by Violyre

WAIT! Don't hit that report button because its another cash shop request thread! Hear me out!

While everyone's out there requesting everything under the sun to be added to the cash shop, I believe there is one thing out there that could give a unity between the supporters and the haters

Why don't we have the option to purchase a real life figurine of our characters? It's something WoW has had for a very long time. Something we can hold in our hands, place on our desks, and try to explain to your co-workers why you have a catgirl sitting on your desk instead of something boring like a family photo!

3D printed characters, who else is with me!?

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Yes please. Real 3D printed character models would be awesome, especially if the system can handle painting/dying them too.

Oh, and please offer multiple scales, 1/6 scale, 1/4 scale, and 1/3 scale. I'll be wanting that 1/3 scale version myself.

All the upvotes I have for this topic are yours.

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Originally Posted by Zhao

I've actually looked into figure designing and construction for this very reason!
But as for the situation of backlogs noted by Alestorm, I doubt that the figures would be custom. I'd bet that they'd design only one costume per job, that being the signature outfit. How many of you would still buy if this were the case? 100% still would.

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Two options if there needs to be a restriction. Option 1 the starter RSE gear, and Option 2 AF gear for your chosen job. The RSE gear would be the easiest since it's the one with the fewest variations on account of being the same regardless of your character's class/job selections.

I would buy 3, same armor all but with all three weapons (PLD, DRK, WAR).

Square figures cost like 300€, you can imagine the price for a custom one... even if it is very basic

I'm interested in buying anything that will have my character on it. Shirts, bags, posters. Wallet permitting of course.

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Originally Posted by Zhao

I've actually looked into figure designing and construction for this very reason!
But as for the situation of backlogs noted by Alestorm, I doubt that the figures would be custom. I'd bet that they'd design only one costume per job, that being the signature outfit. How many of you would still buy if this were the case? 100% still would.

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If I had the means to purchase one, and they were available, not being able to have the glamor I want would be very dissapointing since I tend to mix and match pieces....

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Originally Posted by TaranTatsuuchi

If I had the means to purchase one, and they were available, not being able to have the glamor I want would be very dissapointing since I tend to mix and match pieces....

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If they are 3D printed from the in-game models, they could easily use your character model from the Lodestone (for example) including garments. The trick then is either 3D color printing or 3D printing with artists painting them.

The thing is, 3D color printing is very much here now;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc5Ej5tpT_0

This link;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQdTAH9XXk

shows a system used by the supermarket chain ASDA in the UK where they scan and print you in 3D for 40 GBP or about $60. This is for a completely custom statue of yourself in what you are wearing in full color.

Seems like with access to the game models, SE could do substantially better for similar costs.