FOMO strikes back

Guessing they'll return next year, like the Halloween ones.

It feels kind of entitled to me. (Just trying to understand)

I believe the intent is to be seasonal and ephemeral, which is part of the "magic" of celebrations.

So.... Is Fomo the new rotative forum topic?

Good stuff is ageless.

So these outfits should be available for shards on 12/29, then? Not so much FOMO as instant gratification driving auric cell purchases, if that's the case.

Fine with me I guess, but funny we probably won't see nearly as many of the festive outfits in game until the essentially end of the holiday event, though.

I'm not saying that things only being available at a certain time doesn't add to the charm of a specific celebration, I'm just saying that it doesn't make sense for dbd.

This is not the first seasonal collection they published and the others are always available, so it just seems weird to me that after years they would decide to change this system just for more "magic". The old Christmas skins for example are still available (not that I want to encourage the Devs to change that), so if players want to buy Christmas stuff in June this time limited collection will not stop them. Also, when you bought the skins you can use them whenever you want, so players will see off-season skins ingame anyway.

Like others already said, I'm sure it is purely a selling tactic and it feels scummy to me, so just like the Jane skin, I'm not going to buy it.

Yeah, this is exactly the thing I don't like. When you say, "Good news everyone, the really good content will be free after four weeks" and then follow it up in a few months with "Unrelated news everyone, the really good content will only be available for four weeks," it kind of seems like you're trying to mislead people.

To me, it's not so much about whether the skins are free or cost money -- it's that it would have been easy to say, "We're switching to a new model where we have some limited-time skins that cost money and all-the-time skins that are free" but they deliberately didn't say that, and it's hard to think of a reason that doesn't seem manipulative.

But...they don't, Mercy from Overwatch doesn't get 100% healing speed if you wear the pink skin, Claudette doesn't get 100% invisibility if she gets a bush cosmetic, it's all just personal choice, the skin is as important as you make it

The issue is more with BHVR going against what they said in the past for purely an anti-consumer gain. Issue of principle.

Nothing special... they're all literally holiday themed or winter themed wear. The PJs have always been released during the winter. The bundled up cosmetics weren't released in the middle of summer. The sweaters, Christmas themed cosmetics, holiday colored cosmetics were all released during the HOLIDAYS. You're not missing out on anything if you can't get them all this year. They will return DURING the holidays next year.

On a separate note, the only people I've run into wearing holiday stuff during spring/summer/fall have always went out of their way to try and troll or be toxic in a game. If you weren't buying these skins during those seasons before, why do you suddenly care now? And if you did buy some of these during those seasons before, how many times did you actually wear them? Enough to be this upset this? I highly doubt that.

I know I won't be able to buy every single one this year. And I don't care because I'll have the chance next year when I know I'd want to wear them.

Lol, take a look at Mime Feng and tell me that that skin screams HALLOWEEN

Or look at any "winter" skin that is simply a pajama, in some cases a pair of shorts and a t-shirt and tell me that has any right of being tied to an event

Yeah, I jinxed it.

I saw that, my comment was made yesterday before she made hers today. I've commented on other posts that going back on their statement is not OK.

I've been seeing a surprising number of posts defending this kind of practice, while not really grasping what is actually happening with it. FOMO causes an irrational shift in prioritization by directly manipulating the availability of a purchase. This shift is something that your average person is able to maintain a rational perspective regarding, such as "i don't need it that much" or "I can wait for another chance later." The people it is designed to affect, are those with any form of impaired impulse control, or poor budgeting skills. There have been notorious GDC lectures outlining very specifically how to take advantage of these people and try to get as much money as possible out of them, with FOMO being one of the key methods. It is a known business practice that very specifically targets a vulnerable demographic.

Lets say you are faced with this situation, and have other more important obligations and are unable to make the purchase. A typical mind will think "oh well" and go without, but an affected person will start trying to readjust their budget to make it work, they may borrow money or even forgo financial obligations altogether as the need to commit to the purchase or lose out on it entirely outweighs their otherwise rational budgeting and prioritization. Its actually part of gambling addictions as well, as "the next bet can be the win that offsets all my losses" even after going into debt. It is a very real and well documented psychological effect.

The worst part is that, again, it has very minimal impact on most people. For many its not about losing the ability to purchase something like an ingame cosmetic, and they may not even see that as financially reasonable as it is. The problem is that it so very specifically preys on those who are vulnerable to the tactic, who are treated as whales (individuals who spend more than the average consumer, to make up for a lack of sales elsewhere) in the process.

Its an absolute shame how much this kind of practice is not only accepted, but even defended in the industry. There can literally be people bypassing anything from holiday gifts for loved ones to financial responsibilities such as paying their bills just to sell a few more ugly sweater model meshes and textures.

I'll remind you in a year.

I mean unless You're like a mad outfit collector and you want them all I don't really see what the issue is.

It's actually quite nice to have cosmetics that won't be available forever. In a few years time you can flex with your limited edition pink jump suit that new players don't have.

Now if they offer something as limited edition and in a few years they sell it again then that's when things start getting a bit shady.

Please do.

I hope the "Bhvr can do whatever they want with their game" people will complain at that time, but you can't expect much from that kind of mentality