Tapper's krampus skin is $15... DBD itself is $20
You know something is wrong when a skin costs nearly as much as the game itself.
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Then don't buy it. Nobody is forcing you?
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$$$$$
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is only of the big problems this game have, but in the end is a skin, u dont need it, is not a perk.
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On Nintendo Switch the game is $40 (with more unlocked right away but still pricy) so for me seeing the Trapper's Krampus skin is only $15 doesn't feel as much. Although it is kinda nasty that on most platforms it's almost as much as the game.
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It’s the only skin I’ve wanted so far from all of them. No way in hell I’m paying that much for my Trapper to look nice. Oh well. They did a good job on it.
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I got the game for free two years ago thanks to PS Plus. It is definitely ridiculous how much they are, but if there are people willing to pay that much then I guess they know what they’re doing. Me personally I’d only be willing to spend a couple of bucks to support the game. $10-20? For a single skin? Pass.
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in Gears 3 the entire weapon skin set collection would cost more than the base game. It's not like you need the skins to play better, they're just cosmetic.
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Yep. And people will eat it up without a second thought. This is the reason I rarely buy cosmetics, I’m not dropping $10+ for something I’ll barely use. It needs to be a really good cosmetic for me to drop $10 or $15.
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Tbh I think it looks silly; when he has a mound of snow on him under the midday sun of the Dead Dog Saloon map....walking across desert terrain frosty and snow covered lol.
I wish there was a snowless version folks could get instead.
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I don't think killer legendary skins are worth it just because of the lack of seeing your own skin compared to survivors. I still think Lisa is the best legendary so far.
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The question is: If it was half the price would twice as many people buy it? If it was a quarter of the price would four times as many people buy it.
I wish they would test the waters by putting a skin this good out really cheaply.
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That's the thing for me too. In games like league of legends you can see the skin you bought. A killer skin is more like a status symbol to show to others or something. I myself don't get anything but the weapon or the arm to see, except in a mori.
Never bought any skin and if I would just buy my favourit survivor skin and that's it.
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The test would be wasted money. This system was tested in many games and this was the result. It is no coincidence that other games sell their top skins with 15-20 too.
Whales (players who spend really much) make the money
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Well then don't buy it.
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I think you should be happy that you get the base game so cheap.
Dont get me wrong im not buying skins with money. But i didnt do it when skins were sold for 1€ 10 years ago either.
I preferred when you could get skins with playing. Sure i earn money faster then i can earn a skin in a game, but it isnt the same. Something is different when you achieved something for a skin.
In the end business is business. You sell your work for the best price. When people pay 15€, then they are the problem. It is only a skin.
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Well, you need to buy DBD to play it. But you dont need the Krampus-Skin zu play it. It is entirely optional and so its fine if Cosmetics cost some money. And I prefer expensive Cosmetics over expensive DLCs.
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League of legends is free, but an ultimate skin costs 20$
So what? Just don't buy cosmetics/skins lol
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I got that skin. At first I was furious because they released this skin with visual bugs attached but still charging so much for it. They fixed it now, great!
Enjoying it very much ever since. Given it´s price, I was fully expecting new animations, sounds and maybe redesigned bear traps, but bottom line is it doesnt stand out too much from other cosmetics. Still looks awesome.
You don´t need to buy it if you don´t want to or you deem it too expensive.
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As long ppl are paying these prices, there's no reason for BHVR to change it. Which is fine for me.
In the end they're just cosmetics. And even if you don't swim in money and want a certain cosmetic so bad, you can still wait for discount.
The only Legendary i bought was the "Reborn" for Heather as i'm a big SH fan. And beeing a Huntress main maybe a Legendary for her someday.
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This game should honestly be free-to-play at this point. There's a disgusting amount of microtransactions and monetisation in this game now. It's honestly worse than some f2p games. Even the free currency takes so long to grind up to buy those cosmetics (Well the ones that you can buy with shards anyway, some of them you just can't for...whatever ######### reason.) Some of them will take you literally hundreds of hours of grinding to buy without paying real money. Over a hundred hours of playing and grinding shards, and your reward is a single skin on one character. Awesome. Really cool. It's ######### absurd. And people are fine with BHVR throwing out so many cosmetics and battle passes every 3 months because they're "oNlY cOsMeTiC", because for some reason it's acceptable for a company to squeeze money out of its most loyal customers as long as it doesn't affect gameplay.
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Well if they would make more money with a lower price then it would probably cost less. People are prepared to pay more so it cost more, it's not strange at all.
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In most paid games that arent exploiting the player base content is free minus dlcs. This game just nickel and dimes you at every turn. You would thing maybe some free good stuff to build good will with its player base might happen especially after broken and unbalanced ######### day in and day out. But no they just give comically low blood points.
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Let me ask everyone here a question:
Would you rather cheap skins and an expensive base game + DLC, costing up to 3x more than they do right now, or would you rather the base game + DLC remain relatively cheap (relatively being the word here) letting you get the perks you need to and have a better game experience, with skins cost more?
I know for sure I'd rather have the perks I want for cheaper than the OPTIONAL skins I want for cheaper.
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Isn´t the full game like 150 Euros if you are not the kind of person to grind for 2k hrs?
I understand how people are upset with the increase in monetisation, but on the other hand, we´re talking skins here. It´s not like you need them, after all.
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Hence why I said relatively. If the base game+DLC that you needed to get all perks unlocked is 150€ then with the more expensive game+DLC route with cheaper (optional) skins it'd cost about 450€ to unlock everything but don't worry shirtless David is cheaper.
I know which I prefer.
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You´re using "relatively" quite loosely, then. I can´t think of any other game costing this match to get all the content, but I´m not into this kind of thing much anymore so maybe there is one.
Currently, we have content with hefty costs as well as very expensive cosmetics, that´s why ppl are upset.
For you and me it´s no big deal, we´ve been around long enough and the addition of a single DLC every couple of weeks is not too much, but for new players it must be overwhelming. Imagine trying to have a good experience as Killer as a new player, you need so many DLCs to grind through to at least get to a basic level of viability. On the Survivor side it´s better, the base Survivors have great perks.
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Tbf, Sims 4. That costs so so so much more to get into and get all the content of.
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This, 100%. I rarely buy killer skins because I'll only ever see the weapon, or if I mori, which is extrememly rare. I bought a PH skin mainly because I'm a major SH Fanboy and PH was a favourite from SH2 so it was a must. I also bought Lisa for Cheryl but beyond that I rarely buy any skins. Most of my skins are either from the Shards I earned, or the Rift.
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Fair, but 15 euros for a skin that doesn't change anything except the look? Ok.
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With $15 you could buy 3 killers, but legendary skins are essentially just glorified purple skins that don't do anything special to the killer.
The guy is right, but it's the principle behind charging 3/4's of the games original price for just one skin.
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I agree. The krampus skin looks amazing, but you don't get to see it in the game nor do you get to see it during a mori animation. The last thing I want to do is spend $15 on something that I can't look at while I play.
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Going by how other games do it, the base game should have more characters included for free.
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Oh yeah there has always been a huge disparity in price. The office is in Canada and they charge US dollars...
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Honestly, it's a travesty that they charge more for a skin than they do for a chapter.
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I would rather pay more for skins and less for a DLC.
One thing is a cosmetic and the other thing actual playable content
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Yeah yes of course. But that's not the issue. The issue is that the skins are overpriced to an exorbitant amount. You're kind of stating the obvious.
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You're contributing nothing to the discourse here. It's paramount to telling someone to shut up. I see people say this all the time and it's pointless and adds nothing to the conversation. It's like a bell ringing for no other reason than to hear itself ring.
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I know, it doesn't make sense. If they want to keep doing this they should make the base game F2P.
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The issue is someone will pay that much for it and the devs will then sell the next skin for more money. Have you played an MMO game before? Do you know how an auction house works? Someone puts an item up there. They look up what the last 20 have sold for. They see someone bought the last item for say $15. So they put it on the auction house for $16 bucks. Someone buys it. Someone else puts an item on the AH and see's the last item sold for $16. So they put theirs up for $17 and it just builds and builds.
It doesn't matter if you don't buy it. Someone will pay what they are asking and when they release a skin you actually want, the price will be higher than what you feel like paying for. That is the problem with microtransactions. There's always somebody with more money than brains who pays whatever they want without asking "Is this really worth that much?"
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That krampus skin just gonna make you feel even worse when you get dunked on by a SWF flashlight team and realize a skin has no bearing on your ability to play.
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The only time I have ever paid for cosmetics was like 3 years ago when I was playing Friday the 13th regularly (when it still had a future). For $3.00 you could buy sets of beach wear or Halloween costumes for most of the councelors, and I did it to support a game I liked not because I particularly wanted or needed them. That’s about the price range I could do for DBD, but I would be willing to spend twice that amount for a little bit less than F13 offered. At least it would still be a more reasonable price point than what they’re doing now.
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Agreed on that
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Yeah, but it isn’t any less silly than survivor characters wearing mini skirts on Ormand. At least Krampus being a supernatural character accounts for snow that doesn’t melt.
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It doesn’t look good though. That and the clown purple rift skin this month. Whenever I see those I can’t stop laughing. I can’t focus on anything else in the game. So, maybe it’s worth it after all?
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I buy them when, I can afford it and , i buy killer skin's for survivor's honesty .
Edit sorry :Take Blood n Guts for instance I don't necessarily like it because of the intestines around the head ,but I like how it looks like a red headband around her head,I would have went with a blood soaked scarf of Madeline's from the event.
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Agreed. Man if that lawsuit never happened I never would have played dbd.
Next thing they’re going to pull will be “limited time outfits” and charge $20 for them. Just wait
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Well... skins are the main income for the Devs. Besides from new Chapters and Rift''s there isn't any reason to spend money in this game. And that's a good thing. It's not pay to win.
I would honestly not care to spend more money for a skin and support the Devs if there would be any good reason to support them. But sadly there isn't at the moment.
I would love to by skins but they are not seeing any money from me until they deserve it.
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I was gonna get the Krampus skin, but jus went and bought a pack of socks instead.
Eventually the price will drop and I’ll turn Trapper into a horned, anthropomorphic, misbehaving-child terrifier
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Tbh I hate price gouging on in-game cosmetics. But almost every game does it. And if it means more content, and better cosmetics in the future then why not.
As long as the prices don't get too ridiculous I don't see the need sharpen the pitchforks.
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LoL skins are infinitive more expensive then the game itself.
Doesn't stop people from buying those skins.
It's optional, if you don't like the price don't buy. Skins are more a way to support the devs then anything else
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