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Are skin prices too high?
I really find the skin prices to be abysmal for no reason. Why does a purple skin cost the same or more than 2 characters? 2 characters mean way more than a skin yet its cheaper than a skin. It makes no sense. And as much as I love RE and I'm gonna buy them, I'm gonna hate to spend so much money on these predictable new legendary skins. Shouldn't legendary skins be like $5 MAX because the effort put into them is less or almost equal to a new whole survivor. The reason I say ALMOST equal to is because apparently they might be putting more effort into them with the backstory page changing, their name changing in the menus, their portraits changing in game, their lobby animations, AND new voices but not the perks which I understand. Shouldn't that mean that it should be the same exact price as a full new character which is $5? With the amount of skins that are even in the game it might even help since more people will even buy them which stacks up a bit quicker. What are your thoughts?
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Shards wise? absolutely yes I don't understand why they are 21000 shards that takes ages to get
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Yes, they're astronomically high. The prices are just baffling to me. Single apparel pieces costing nearly as much as characters makes no sense; they aren't nearly as much content as the character itself. The full outfit wouldn't be, and it can cost over twice as much. The fact that I can pay 9000 shards or 500 cells for the Hag and then spend 7200 shards or 400 cells just to give her a green claw is nuts.
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I mean, yeah, sure. I'd rather completely optional skins be expensive compared to the DLC's, which in comparison to other games, is dirt cheap. BHVR can keep the DLC's relatively cheap because their main source of income is cosmetics. I'd prefer it that way, frankly. Then again, that's just my opinion.
Shards are also ludicrously expensive and should be reworked, but I sincerely doing it.
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Compared to other games for see it like it buy it cosmetics dbd is line with everyone else. Especially since most cosmetics can be grinded for.
Dbd is actually kind of spoiled when I comes to this stuff.
Shout out to whoever is in charge of monitization the prices are reasonable and ALOT of content is grindable
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Absolutely. When the game is on sale, a legendary skin costs more than base game + a dlc
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Genuine question, would you rather it be the other way around? If they lessened the price of cosmetics, the price of the chapters would go up. That is basic economics.
BHVR, at the end of the day, is a company and they need to make money. They could easily charge actual content for 15 dollars, but instead they make cosmetics expensive and actual gameplay changing content for cheap. They even have regular sales.
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Yea, prices are too high. I've only ever bought 1 cosmetic with auric cells. Purchasing anymore with auric cells has never even been a consideration since I know the prices are just silly.
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They are way to expensive. I paid 40 dollars plus all dlcs for the game, so I dont want to pay 10 to 15 dollars on skins. I buy the unique ones like elf dwight and beast oni, but that's it. I believe they should be $2.50 to $5 on normal, and maybe $10 for legendaries.
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Honestly they could charge a DLC character 1100 auric. And Legend skin cost at 500 auric.
But that will kill the player base.I Iprefer this way.
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I mean, clearly people buy the skins. It works. I don't buy skins either. I am 100% okay with optional, purely cosmetic content being expensive if it means I can get six characters, 18 perks, and three new powers for under 15 bucks.
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Yes, they are very overpriced, imo.
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Good thing such content doesn't have a direct impact on gameplay. Compared to other games you do not have an incentive to buy cosmetics for any sort of advantage. Since you don't have to buy the cosmetics to gain an advantage that means they can price it however they want honestly, people buy the skins and if you are uninterested due to the cost (too bad?).
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Depends on the skin.
In general I think the pricing on skins is okay. Especially considering that no few of them can be acquired for free if you grind enough.
Legendaries are a bit nutty. They cost more but are basically just a way to buy a linked set and pretend you're playing a new character. (TBF that looks like it might be changing though.)
And some other skins are just dumb.
Ghostface's slightly cleaner mask, Adam's one inch longer hair, and Jane's heads with different colored makeup come to mind.
Charging 400 cells for pants that are a bit more muddy, or jeans that have slightly more scuffed knees also doesn't seem quite right to me.
But those things tend to be exceptions, not the rule.
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21k is to high. yes.
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No, nobody is entitled to get cosmetics. But that's just my opinion.
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Its cool to have the real content cheaper but it makes 0 sense. Ya know if we really tried hard though we could have both pretty cheap.
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I only really buy the skins from licenses I love. I've bought stuff like Blighted and Classic Ghost Face, the Myers outfit, Robbie Legion and soon some RE skins but not much else. The only skins I really bought that were original was a bunch of Clown stuff and I didn't get much out of it.
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They can charge whatever they want. I however will not buy them at the current price. I have only bought 3 outfits in the 3 years I've been playing. Robby legion skin, an executioner skin, and the wraith skin from this year's new years event. That's it.
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As someone who has all the characters, I only play each character for a small fraction of the time I'm online and in game. Buying a skin is an investment. You're gonna wanna use it if you buy it.
If you fall in love with one character I could see justifying it. I DID buy Susie when Legion came out but I just bought the body and mask. She's my favorite of the four so I'm alright with it.
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No, because they're completely optional.
If a Killer or Survivor was priced 1,080 Auric Cells, then that would be a problem, because actual gameplay content is locked behind that paywall. Cosmetic skins do not have that issue.
I would much rather have 500 Auric Cell characters and 1,080 Auric Cell cosmetics than the inverse.
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Nah, they are fine. Cosmetics are completely optional. And if the Devs dont make money with Cosmetics, they would have to make more money with Chapters, which would mean that either DLCs would become more expensive or original DLCs would not be available for Shards anymore.
And I prefer expensive Cosmetics over expensive DLCs.
The price for Shards is also alright as well, you have to consider that BHVR is not a charity organization, so they want you to buy the Skins via Money. Being able to buy them via Shards is a Bonus, but nothing what they would have to do.
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Skin prices are fine.
Are they expensive? Heck yes! But that kind of pricing model eases their financial burden and allows content that's more relevant to the actual game itself to be priced better. That's much better than twisting your arm with every DLC or make you feel like you're missing out otherwise.
I love and hope they never change their pricing model.
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What do you mean it makes zero sense? The actual content is cheap because the optional cosmetics are expensive. And no, unfortunately, we could not. BHVR is a company. They need to make money somehow. If they stopped making as much money as they did on cosmetics, something would have to change. Either the price of chapters themselves would he brought up, or original chapters would have to stop being offered with shards.
BHVR is by no means a perfect company, or Dev team, but in comparison to other games and devs (Looking at you, Hi-Rez) they are pretty damn good in terms of monetization.
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It's way overpriced let's be real, this isn't a free game and if someone wanted to buy the game and every chapter they're spending more than 100 dollars and on top of that 10 dollars each for most skins in the shop and then 10 for every battlepass that comes out , this is essentially a more than 200 dollar investment once you start biting in and want the things that come out , now ask yourself with the way this game is always broken and the lack of events or double bloodpoint bloodhunts or just lack of free content is this game really worth more than 200 dollars to get invested in? Most of us have bought as we go but to new players this is absolutely overwhelming and will make someone drop the game because of the amount of money it demands to get up to what they may feel is acceptable, the platform BHVR uses is similar to most free games with all the money you have to spend on skins, chapters, and battlepass but it's not free and you still spend alot of money...
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With the quality we get it's absolutely overpriced nothing ever works as intended and the only thing that's ever consistent are 10 dollar skins being released even if the game is unplayable after a chapter release.
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I honestly don’t find them too bad. I think there should be more price tiers when new ones come out instead of all being 1080
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Prices are fine since it means the chapters can be cheap.
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You kidding me, hell yeah its high. Like how does it make sense for me to spend 10 dollars over a skin, yet a character costs at least 5 dollars. And the grind for shards is ridiculous its unfun and unnesecary
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You could have both be cheap you know.
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Personally, I think they are way overpriced. But since I don't give that much about skins, I just buy the ones I like when they are 50% or more off.
I would buy way more if they weren't so expensive, but since people will throw their money at them for every skin when they're released, they won't decrease prices any time soon.
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Yeah the shard price is high but I would rather the killer cost 9k that 21k
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Nvm I quoted by accident
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Yeah, skin prices in DBD are completley nutty, both in IC and in Auric. I've seen F2P games with fairer prices.
BHVR would honestly probably make way more money if they lowered the prices, because then more people would be willing to buy them.
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Seeing as how skins have no affect on gameplay, why is it an issue how much they cost? All it does is support behavior to develop their game. And no I'm not just defending greedy business practices, it only becomes an issue if it affects gameplay directly really.
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I think the prices for cosmetics are to high.
A lot of people here prefer it, so the dlcs cheaper, but in my opinion the devs could earn more money with lower prices for cosmetics and can make dlcs more expensive. So the have to release dlcs with a higher quality with less bugs, otherwise the playerbase wouldn‘t buy it! And the content like maps or against a new killer you can play without buying the dlc.
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Yes. Most cosmetics are definitely worth less than their actual cost, but then again, the more skins you buy, the more "skin combos" you can make so you're technically buying more than just "one skin" when you do buy one assuming you have several skins for that one character already. I still agree though, this game is quite costly when it comes to cosmetics.
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I don't know about you. But i much rather have the skins be expensive rather then the actuall chapters. If they reduce the cost of the skins they have to increase the price of the dlc.
It's good that it's the optional stuff that's expensive and the gameplay one isn't.
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To my knowledge they simply followed the pricing of cosmetics in other games because it worked there.
Personally I believe I'd end up spending more money on cosmetics than I do now if they were cheaper because there are plenty that interest me but the price is a turn off so I'm currently picky with what I get.
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That's not how basic economics works. It's can be inferred from the evidence we have, that the price elasticity of demand (PED) for these skins, based on the general community want for them, is inelastic. This means that the increase in demand would be less relative to the decrease of price. Decreasing price wouldn't raise demand by a substantial enough degree to be worth the change in revenue and so profits would fall.
BHVR is a company and so the majority of the time their major motive for providing a good/service is profit.
And so I'd much prefer the optional content be expensive than the content needed to fully experience the game.
Answer me this: expensive cosmetics or expensive chapters?
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When the game costs so little the devs need to make money out of it. They don’t have any other games to get income from remember
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Linked ones are not worth it
Half the time they don't even change the character enough to warrant being tied together nor the price hike
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Probably becasue you get shards by just simply play the game
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What you want me to spend more money?
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100%. the fact that legendaries are 3x more expensive than the character itself is kinda dumb
although, i dont mind it much since the cosmetics are optional. I do wish they were cheaper to get with shards though
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One or the other.
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Hmmmm, I simply can't decide.
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It takes a lot of work to make those skins.
Just ask Bubba.
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