Price of a skin is ridiculous

The thing is, I'd much rather the cosmetics be more expensive than the dlcs. I really enjoy the DLCs being relatively cheap (like, I can manage a fiver every 3 months). If skins were £3 for the most expensive image how expensive the DLCs would be to make up all that money- I'll stay with paying that much for a skin.

Most of the skins are ridiculously overpriced. But people will buy them so BHVR has no reason to lower that price.

Bhvr is a game company that treats its employees right, and there are about 500 staff employed I total.

These profits, whilst yeah they're big, go between so many different people. Firstly, developers aren't overworked and are paid a good salary, janitorial staff must be paid, HR, PR, employees are provided meals so cooking staff, QA, etc. There are about 50 game devs hired there if I'm to guess, and these aren't all on dbd. Some work on dbd mobile, others work on other projects that BHVR releases, like the Game Of Thrones game they made recently. Plus, making dbd mobile remain afloat since that game is free and provides premium currency also for free.

So yeah, they made lots of money. But they also have lots of expensis- remember when they bought publishing rights from Starbreeze and prices of DLC went up to compensate for the lost money? Bhvr is a really respectable company, actually, and whilst in an ideal world skins and dlc would be cheap, let me ask you this,

Would you rather pay & 25 quid for the DLCs and £2.50 for legendary skins, or £5.19 for the DLC and £10 for optional cosmetics.

Usually yes, but the art department at BHVR is the only department I think actually tries. Rarely do those skins fail too look good, and they always try and deliver a skin worth your buck. The Lisa skin is way overpriced but that's out of BHVR hands, that's konami being greedy (which I feel backfired sicne I rarely ever see a Lisa in game.)

I have spent a RIDICULOUS amount of time grinding for cosmetics. As an Ace main I can tell you that I've bought almost every single Ace cosmetic I can with irdescent shards, including the common default re-skins that are just different colors, which are actually pretty handy to have on hand customization wise.

I'm only missing The High Roller from the Smoking Jacket Collection (The Tomcat from the same collection was one of the first premium cosmetics I grinded for, so I have had that for a long time already) which is 21600 shards. I'm at some 19,000 something.

After that, I'll finally have every possible Ace cosmetic you could possibly get for free, including Pilot Ace which is one of my favorites. He has some 4 cosmetics that can only be bought with Auric Cells, but I can live without them although the Classy Charlatan I'm definitely gonna end up buying down the line. After this I can finally work on grinding for some cosmetics for killer and I've already started plotting my route for what I'm grinding for, starting with the Deathslinger, moving on to Clown, then Oni, after that Trapper, Wraith and / or Doc after that, and then I finally want to get Joey and Susie so I can actually have all 4 members of the Legion (even if I don't play them at all, probably making it a huge waste of shards).

This is my philosophy: if you can buy it with iridescent shards NEVER buy it (with actual money), because at some point down the line after you've played long enough you'll have the shards necessary to have gotten it for free. Only ever buy the stuff that you can only get with auric cells, most likely stuff for licensed characters you enjoy playing, like Cheryl if you're a fan of Silent Hill.

Never use your shards for anything other than cosmetics. I know a lot of people like to spend their shards on teachables they already own so they get bloodpoints but that is an absolute waste. Considering how long it takes for you to get iridescent shards and how quick you can farm bloodpoints especially with offerings like Bloody Party Streamers, Survivor Pudding, X2 Bloodpoint events that are held sporadically throughout the year, and the anniversary event that we are in the middle of right now which always gives out an even better BP Bonus offering - this time the Ghastly Gateau.

You can always mega grind bloodpoints with perks and offerings, but there is nothing you can do to speed up your iridescent shard gain, so never waste your shards on buying old previously owned teachables that's worthless. It's not worth even it to get new teachables you don't have yet when you can just get the teachables by investing BP in those characters in the first place, (unless you don't have those characters at all, in which case I would recommend you buy them because the shrine is finicky on what perks actually show up and there's no guarantee you'll get the 3 teachables of a character. But that's your decision).

I dont mind paying 10€ for an outfit, i mean i play this game 1000k a year so spending some real money on it is totally worth it.

And many DCLs can be bought with shards just sayin.

But you can keep on buying games that cost 70€ with a playtime of 50 hours...

to me the prices aren't bad at all. 10$ for a legendary skin isn't bad. especially compared to games like fortnite. the cheryl skin is expensive because you're basically getting a whole new character too. quit whining.

In this point i do not agree.

Legendary Skins would be legendary, if they would have "new synchronized audios" special "things" to make these legendary.

A 137 Million $ Company should make it possible to afford these costs for their rather high priced skins.

And for the Case their marketing didnt thought about it already, i would fire them, and hire new people to be marketing designers...

No, in Fact BHVR try to make it as cheap as possible, on which the quality of the product suffers a lot, and we can see those bad quality by having bugs over years, by having a real bad hit connection, bad quality servvers and so on.

This is a cow, and they tryna to milk it out as much as possible withzout having the need of deliver a good quality product.

Skins are of no value for the game. Noone needs them, these are for extra support for the game, that's it. If you don't want to support the game, don't buy skins.

And the reason why this skin is extra expensive is probably a licensing nature. But no idea about that in detail. Still jkust a skin

I've never spent real money on mere cosmetics only with in game currency. That includes survivors in dbds case since survivor don't have different abilities just a different player model.

So I would charge the most profitable amount if I were them as well seeing as it's for aesthetics so it doesn't matter if it's bought or not.

Very Rare costumes. Give them overprice -> less people buy them -> its really rare to see those costumes in game.

Live as its name: Very rare costumes.

YES! I've been saying this for a long time. Very few skins are actually worth their asking price (which is the same as two to three new characters). Too many people are used to high-priced skins and now act like it's perfectly fine. If a cosmetic costs more than a brand new character, then it better be a damn good skin (unless it's licensed and the licensor intervenes and sets the price for a cosmetic).

i actually do think they are extremely overpriced.

Fortnite is a free game and their cosmetics stand out more. i paid full price for Dead by Daylight and the cosmetics for survivors are not only typically more subtle and boring but cost more!

So basically they had their cake and eating it too.

Also, shards take FOREVER to grind. Now i might not be a pro like you guys but i have 200 hours in this game and only got like 2 characters and 2 pieces of clothes. Boring clothes too cause the good stuff is insane.

So i'm sure someone here is going to tell me how they have a million shards and blah blah.

Most people won't get that many and 200 hours for 2 characters and 2 like colored pants or something is a lot.

It's basically a mobile format but in a game thats almost full price.