Hallowed Blight Event (my concerns)

@Skerpinator said:
I dont get it why they wanna trade excitement for cash

Probably because they'd like to eat.

@Dwight_Confusion said:
I mean personally I would like them all to be available for grind..

Some for an extreme grind.

30 vials = 1 skin

50 vials = 2 skins

100 vials = 3 skins

200 vials = 4 skins

and so on... make it extreme for some people. Then obviously make anything you don't earn cells only. I'm fine with this. I think this would get peopel playing like crazy man, and make everyone very happy to have that chance to grind crazy.

Or...

Like I said in my original post... let us earn at least 2 skins man.

Come on.

This! I expected something like this. Just some grinding fun, but I see, we will finish our objectives after 2 hours.

@not_Queen here is how to fix the issue of the event. step one all cosmetics are earnable thru gameplay.

step 2 start at 30 vials for the first,
the second is 45,
3rd would be 60 so on and so forth.
allow your loyal full time players the ability to grind for them rather then making us pay $60 usd for them. (yes that's the price of a full triple AAA game)
step 3 make it in stages. you can only gain 1 full outfit per day. which later cosmetic packs could take multiple days to grind for. yes i know you want to make money off the event and that's fine but allow the players that want to really grind to do just that. don't punish your hard core for wanting to be able to unlock cosmetics with gameplay. it seems only fair that if your holding an event that you allow the ability to gain a lot if your willing to put in the time. seeing as there are multiple titles that are about to drop this is a chance for you to push your game play numbers to the max for not just a day or so. because after the first couple of days most players will have already gained their first full cosmetic which means the only thing bring the players back to the event is the lore and the extra blood points during the event by playing the offering. do i want the spooky flashlights and med kits sure but they are not a major draw. you need a reward system to reward players for the time in game that will not be completed in the first 24 hours.

@Dwight_Confusion said:

@Huntedfailure said:
With all the effort they put into the event i view this as them making back what they spent

I see that. I get it. I'll be happy to buy one of the outfits for sure. No problems. I just want the event to give us a bit more than 3/21

ya know?

I may not agree entirely but i understand but either way lets enjoy the cool costumes and extra bloodpoints

Yeah it sucks we can only unlock one event skin for this "big event". This event wont last long for most but maybe that's part of the plan. If we could grind for all these cosmetics then the time between games as a killer would be worse then it is now.

@Dwight_Confusion said:
I mean personally I would like them all to be available for grind..

Some for an extreme grind.

30 vials = 1 skin

50 vials = 2 skins

100 vials = 3 skins

200 vials = 4 skins

and so on... make it extreme for some people. Then obviously make anything you don't earn cells only. I'm fine with this. I think this would get peopel playing like crazy man, and make everyone very happy to have that chance to grind crazy.

Or...

Like I said in my original post... let us earn at least 2 skins man.

Come on.

Yeah only being able to get 1/7 of the skins for free is kinda lame...

@Dwight_Confusion said:

Again man. You are missing the concept of this.

Wrong

This is a survival horror game with high replay value.

True

They are doing an event for "Halloween" which is kinda what this game is about... scary, fall... dark...

Agreed

They are releasing some of their best cosmetics for this event, the event is awesome... the ideas and concept are cool...

True

very cool.

Yes it is

13 days... awesome

Yeah kinda sweet like they did with the Summer BBQ event which was 15 days.

7 outfits.

you can choose which you want to go for.

I can get 1/7 after a couple days. COol. That's great.

So you can grind like mad or take your time.

What else can I grind for? Nothing.

Well gee how is that any different than all the other events where once you got the item, you couldn't grind for anything else?

I'll have at least 10 days left like most people that aren't on a 2 week vacation (lmao)

Well you chose to grind for it and now you're going to complain that you can't earn more.

and it would be really neat for them to give a longer grind for a 2nd set.

While this would be nice you're getting something for free already.

Then put the rest behind a paywall for 10 bucks each (which is a bit costly)

So some stuff is behind paywall big deal, there's some stuff that's been behind a paywall for quite some time now. The $10 is a movie ticket or 2 cups of coffee or a meal at Burger King.

They need to either do one of the following.....

-Make a 2nd set grindable with a far away vial count (6 pieces in total for 100 vials?) or 200 vials?)

If you make a 2nd set then the demands will quickly become 3rd set and so on.

-Make them all buyable with 20,000 shards each

Making compelte sets buy able for 1k would be on par with say Rin's Very Rare outfit.

-Give a Auric Cell discount of 20% more.

Doesn't that make it pay 2 win then? You spend money you get it cheaper and quicker so no grind?

-Give the game an XP event, where you can earn shards a bit faster. for some small duration.

That is nice and a double bp event or even 1.5 even t would be nice. It still needs to have Devotion fixed so it's actually meaningful for shards.

The issue is that if they give in on this what happens during the next event, the demands will simply increase. As proof look no further than the BBQ event and the ones before it where people were instantly demanding more rewards and longer duration's.

@Gilly said:
Slippery slope arguments have to terminate somewhere, though. If I had, for example, BHVR's word that every October would be another Hallowed Blight and we'd have a chance to earn more vials, or that every July was a BBQ, and the event lasted a whole month and we got in-game currency every time to purchase new sets which would be updated every year, I could feel more confident about this event and excited for the future. Instead, it seems to be screaming to me that I'll never be able to afford to have every outfit, even with the money I earn. That every event will be an excuse to pawn off new cosmetics only available with auric cells. I bought the game. I've bought all the DLC. I've bought every clothing pack they've released. But this event leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.

And I have to wonder how much of this model might be because they've obviously taken a financial bath on Deathgarden. Which also makes me wonder if this might not be the new event model moving forward. Right now, DBD is the only cash cow they can milk.

@Gilly said:

@Kilmeran said:

And I have to wonder how much of this model might be because they've obviously taken a financial bath on Deathgarden. Which also makes me wonder if this might not be the new event model moving forward. Right now, DBD is the only cash cow they can milk.

I don't mind them milking DBD as a cash cow, especially if their primary method of milking us for money is by releasing more killers. I feel like pulling a stunt like this is a bad direction, though.

I was talking about stunts like this. I don't personally consider KIller/Survivor DLCs as milking. That's why I specifically wondered about "event model," in my post.

@Dwight_Confusion said:
I'm happy with everything overall, I'm just disappointed that I can only get 1/7 outfits for free with the grind.

I just thought they'd do like 1/2 of the stuff in a vial/grind method and the other 1/2 pay stuff.

Now I'm hoping that we can get a 2nd outfit added somehow. That would be great.

I'd be fine with a 2nd outfit or at least make it so you can get 1 full outfit per side which is 6 cosmetics in total so that'd be 2/7.

@Vortexas said:
EZ.

Grind out the most expensive skin with in-game event monies.

Then stop being a poor peasant, and buy some Auric shards if you want the rest.

Seriously if you want the skin BADLY enough to complain about it, then unass the cash.

Hah it's funny cause you're banned.
On topic: All the skins cost the same. There's no reason that they would ever cost a different amount, especially if they're all part of the same event.

But on the actual topic: While I do think that 3 total cosmetics that you can choose from does beat 1 cosmetic for each side (I don't play Huntress, Hillbilly, David, or Kate; all the other event cosmetics are useless to me ) these are still incredibly impressive sets that are meant to be worn as sets. The other cosmetics are designed to be fairly universal and match well with any cosmetic. The Blighted cosmetics (especially the killer ones) have so many glowey bits that I don't think it's possible to mix and match any of them reliably. Maybe you can equip a Prestige weapon on the Killers or skip the pants on the Survivors (cause all pants look the same let's be real) but then you're left with one random cosmetic.

I do think that you should have 6 total vials for a full set for Killer and a full set for Survivor, or if you take my strategy of skipping weapons and pants you can have 3 sets of your liking. One set of cosmetics for grinding just feels unrewarding, especially since Killer mains will have to play Survivor and Survivor mains will have to play Killer in order to get their vials.

P.S. While I think adding optional "totem-esque" objectives to the game is nice I think this is a really poor way of going about it. Forcing Survivors to do something that's literally useless just for cosmetics (and I guess bloodpoints) is not how we should slow the game down. At least with totems we had the excuse of looking out for NOED but there's literally no in-game reason to clear these plants. This means that at high ranks they will be ignored and at low ranks it'll be harder to escape because of people literally tending to weeds instead of doing gens.
The plants are a good starting point for something like a "gasoline pump" for generator fuel but currently they're just a needless waste of time. Getting a third of a vial for doing a gen was a fine mechanic already.

@AChaoticKiller said:
Yea the devs pulled a great bait if you ask me. We find out there are cool skins and 2 WEEKS to get them only to get slapped with "If you maximize your play time you can get ONE skin set" that's total bs. What they should have done is made it so if you wanted a lot of the skins you'd have to grind your ass off. Then at the end sell them with cells to the players who could not get the skins. If they did this then it would be the best event dbd would ever have. I wish we could at least get a killer and survivor skin set like the previous events.

Totally down with what this person said. We should be able to grind for all the cosmetics, and the paywall only goes up after the event is over. That way, the people like me who have no lives and want to grind their asses off for all the cosmetics can, and get that sweet sense of achievement from getting all the event objectives. They can still get their money from the casual players who either don't want to or don't have time to grind, and so decide to buy their favourite outfits instead. Or, from people who start playing later and want to retroactively get the cosmetic skins. There are definitely ways to make money and keep the community from feeling like they've been cheated. These killer cosmetics are some of the most awesome ones they've ever made. People who can't get them for free are going to want to buy them.

@Kilmeran said:

@Gilly said:

@Kilmeran said:

And I have to wonder how much of this model might be because they've obviously taken a financial bath on Deathgarden. Which also makes me wonder if this might not be the new event model moving forward. Right now, DBD is the only cash cow they can milk.

I don't mind them milking DBD as a cash cow, especially if their primary method of milking us for money is by releasing more killers. I feel like pulling a stunt like this is a bad direction, though.

I was talking about stunts like this. I don't personally consider KIller/Survivor DLCs as milking. That's why I specifically wondered about "event model," in my post.

I immediately thought about the DeathGarden thing too...

Yeah, their Killer/Survivor DLC's can not be considered milking at all and their pricing is pretty fair... What bothers me is for the amount they are asking for a whole Chapter DLC (7$) you can't buy one complete "very rare" set for ONE character. So what this shows is adding a new fancy skin is more valued than actually creating a new killer, new gameplay mechanics, new survivor, 6 new perks and new map. Even if some (quite a lot, actually) of their skins are indeed awesome, ALL of them are incredibly overpriced... And 65$ paywall for getting all the REMAINING skins from this EVENT alone is ridiculous... That is more than what you pay for a whole triple A title, c'mon!

In my opinion, they would honestly benefit more from all the hype of having people actually sticking around for the whole 2 weeks and try to unlock stuff like crazy (EVEN IF they make it impossible to unlock everything unless you're playing MORE than 24/7) than making it so it takes roughly 1 or 2 days to get the whole set you can get for the whole event and then stop playing at all. Would be smart, would (probably) bring more new people to the game since this game DID grow a lot on a mouth-to-mouth basis, hence more people who potentially will spend money or cosmetics... An exponential amount of recquired vials to unlock cosmetics would be fair, I think... Some people were talking about 30/50/100/200 vials for unlocking full sets... I'd be down for that... Heck... Make it 30/60/120/240 or even 30/100/200...