Omega Emote is Tasteless

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

Angry at Stuff

First, Genshin Impact is a gatcha game. It\\'s whole business model is based on that and currently there\\'s no cosmetics you can buy for it. The only cosmetic items are glider wings and they are all earnable in game save for the special set you get for playing on PS4.

Second, the statue is very obtainable. You buy it. Period. The emote is a nod to collectors who are willing to part with that kind of cash for merch tied to the game. If you really want to complain about exclusive items, there\\'s Savage and PvP exclusive gear that I will never ever have access to because of difficulty and lack of commitment. It is available in game but yet still completely unobtainable to me. I bought the Odin statue so I have the Zantetsuken emote. When I use it, it is for my own enjoyment, not to mock anyone and it\\'s no less than I\\'ve seen Savage players do with the mounts they\\'ve gotten from said content.

They deserve those things for the effort they put forth, just as I deserve my emote for working my ass off for the money to buy the item it came with. The problem is not that they are exclusive, YOUR problem is you are not willing to put forth the effort to obtain them. That\\'s not on the developers. That\\'s on you.

[Doozer]

It's not the same thing. The other statues have emotes that are not persistent. You can't idle as them. This time it's a big stinking status symbol that you can idle in.

Showing everyone you paid $200 USD for a statue with no worth in-game and an emote that you can idle with? That's a status symbol? You've got weird priorities, mate. If I saw someone with it I'd just say "oof" and keep walking. I spent that much on a custom controller, and someone spent that same amount for an emote? I'm not jealous of that at all, lmao.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Showing everyone you paid $200 USD for a statue with no worth in-game and an emote that you can idle with? That's a status symbol? You've got weird priorities, mate. If I saw someone with it I'd just say "oof" and keep walking. I spent that much on a custom controller, and someone spent that same amount for an emote? I'm not jealous of that at all, lmao.

To be fair, I'd think spending that much on a controller is a waste. But to each their own.

I spent several hundred on flight sticks and such for games I play rarely. Was still worth it in my mind.

[Doozer]

To be fair, I'd think spending that much on a controller is a waste. But to each their own.

It's a PS4 controller with a different shape from the stock DS4, as well as paddles on the back, all of which I prefer because it's easier on my hands as I have joint problems. Plus, I bought a new first-party PS4 controller in 2019 and it came defective, but it was minor so I went to fix it myself, and it all but fell apart in my hands. I was tired of spending ~$70 on cheaply made controllers that break so quickly, so I invested in a quality controller that will last, which it has.

It's not just a fancy design on an otherwise standard controller, so it's kind of different from what I assume you think it is. It's for accessibility, not flair.

[Vyrerus]

At least it's not like when paid for emotes first went into the cash shop. Like, literally everyone around me bought them while complaining, and then basically had parties with spamming them. /playdead and /backflip. Then by the time the peer pressure got to me, they'd lost interest in the "outrageously" overpriced emotes, and I was sore for a little bit.

These emotes should be rare enough that you won't see them that often. Also makes me wonder though, are the statue emotes of today and yesterday account wide? They'd better be for that price tag lol.

[van_arn]

At least it's not like when paid for emotes first went into the cash shop. Like, literally everyone around me bought them while complaining, and then basically had parties with spamming them. /playdead and /backflip. Then by the time the peer pressure got to me, they'd lost interest in the "outrageously" overpriced emotes, and I was sore for a little bit.

These emotes should be rare enough that you won't see them that often. Also makes me wonder though, are the statue emotes of today and yesterday account wide? They'd better be for that price tag lol.

Playdead never goes out of style.

[Zomkei]

Also makes me wonder though, are the statue emotes of today and yesterday account wide? They'd better be for that price tag lol.

they're account wide

[Xuled]

You win the whole thread. This is 100% on point and better articulated than I could ever have said.

Scalpers ruin everything. It has always been a problem, but never as bad as it is now. You really don't think scalpers aren't scalping the 400$ omega resales? Of course they are. They'll ruin anything for a turn of profit, even if others go without.

Zelda Joyons. Ruined.
Ps5 is still unobtainable.
Xbox Series X Is unobtainable.
Every limited gaming thing ever is scalped and sold at OUTRAGEOUS prices.

Even the Mario Cereal that was out a few years ago was scalped for at least 50$ a box. CEREAL. I don't know anyone who got a box. And it was all because it contained a Mario Odyssey code.

Mcdonald's had to make it so that you couldn't just buy Pokemon cards. You have to buy a happy meal. People scalped and ruined those for the first week.

Exclusivity on physical content does NOT work in this day and age. Not until scalpers are regulated better by laws, which is a hard enough issue to deal with. Ask anyone how they are going to make such laws without limiting the freedom to buy and resell your own private property. It's a very hard law to write, and it will take some creative lawyers, and politicians to come up with such a bill. Until then, the least we could do is make these limited things easier to obtain.

Wow. You must be BIG at people like myself then.

https://imgur.com/t/ps5/P4EPN2N

Keep on being salty and moving the goalposts in the topic as others have mentioned. Don’t blame us for your poor financial choices and decisions.

[ForteNightshade]

It's a PS4 controller with a different shape from the stock DS4, as well as paddles on the back, all of which I prefer because it's easier on my hands as I have joint problems. Plus, I bought a new first-party PS4 controller in 2019 and it came defective, but it was minor so I went to fix it myself, and it all but fell apart in my hands. I was tired of spending ~$70 on cheaply made controllers that break so quickly, so I invested in a quality controller that will last, which it has.

It's not just a fancy design on an otherwise standard controller, so it's kind of different from what I assume you think it is. It's for accessibility, not flair.

None of which changes Valkyrie's original point. A good many people will still call that a waste of money no matter how you describe it because, at the end of the day, it's a luxury item with subjective value. You're defending your purchase while mocking someone else's.

[Doozer]

None of which changes Valkyrie's original point. A good many people will still call that a waste of money no matter how you describe it because, at the end of the day, it's a luxury item with subjective value. You're defending your purchase while mocking someone else's.

....A luxury item with subjective value? I have arthritis. It's literally because I have a chronic illness, and the stock PS4 controller hurts my hands because of the placement of the left analog stick, among other things. Why are you getting so angry at someone for explaining that they spent the same amount on a controller for disability reasons that someone is whining about having to spend to get an emote. I don't care if people spend that much on the statue as a collector's item, that's their choice, and I'm not "mocking" it. I'm mocking people that whine that other people have an expensive emote that they want.

Boy, people on the forums here really like to twist things. You're really good at it. Imagine saying accessibility is a waste of money and a "luxury".