All winter cosmetics are leaving, really bhvr?

Stuff like this feels like BHVR is trying to sabo their own product like Elon is doing to Twitter.

They might want to go back to the drawing board on this one.

Thats not how FOMO works. Or rather, I guess it would be more accurate to say thats how it does.

FOMO preys on people who are vulnerable to impulse spending, using the concept of regret as kindling to get them to spend. Its a very manipulative marketing tactic that takes advantage of people who have a hard time controlling their spending/budgeting, encouraging them to make purchases (that they would otherwise be able to rationalize away from) which is why it is so often looked down upon. This is also why its such a popular tactic in various F2P games and MMOs, its both scummy and unfortunately effective, and its effect grows with investment.

Having limited time availability followed by continuous availability is one thing, but this form of recurrent seasonal limited time availability or whatever is being done here, while also retroactively making previous permanently available items limited time only for absolutely zero logistical reason other than to force said FOMO manipulation is an extremely consumer hostile approach.

I don't even care that much about the seasonal availability; it is, as you say, pretty standard. Whatever.

But two things bother me (based on my interpretation of what I have read):

1. Pulling items that had been seasonal items but available year round for a long time into limited availability retroactively. Some are available with shards, but many aren't, and this is a move clearly designed to trigger even more impulse buying. Waiting a year is not a big deal to many, but for many others it is. It's very mask off opportunism. It's anti consumer, and it's gross.
2. Announcing that all non-licensed cosmetics will be given a shard price, but then saying "well, except those, sorry!". The should have accounted for that in the initial announcement. It can't be that hard to plan out your messaging better than this.

These things really give them impression that there is a business model of "we'll do whatever makes us the most money, in the moment, regardless of whether or not it is consistent with established protocol". So it creates a general atmosphere of uncertainty, and will likely lead to even more impulse buying, because now we don't know what may be yanked from the store at any given time.

It's just disappointing.

Seriously, you're not even trying to hide it at this point? Wow!

Just..wow!

And many of them do get therapy, but your dehumanizing approach to people who others are trying to advocate for has been noted.

Telling people that their vulnerability is less important than the profits of a company is, but thats not the message you are trying to convey and you truly and honestly care about these people's well being, don't you. It wasn't even remotely a responsibility and blame shift disguised as well meaning concern, right?

Because you're saying that the practice is fine, despite it being documented as problematic and manipulative to the point that even Forbes articles acknowledge it, and shifting the blame onto the vulnerable person instead of the company knowingly and even retroactively applying it after people have been investing in the game for years.

This is known as victim blaming, you are blaming the people with any form of impulse control vulnerability that these changes are literally designed to take advantage of rather than the company putting forth said practices.

I'm not vilifying you, your stance is. I'm just trying to help you understand what you're actually saying in the event that you don't actually mean it, and are just ignorant to the direction your stance carries.

Fun fact: I'm pretty sure they've only done this for the first 5 killers and 4 survivors so far. They're going at a SNAIL'S PACE. So yeah, enjoy your Shard Prices for Slinger in 2025, also we made half of the cosmetics time limited now.

Wow. So, the original announcement was that all non-licensed skins would be available for shards, but for unknown reasons they couldn't do it with all of the characters at once, so they were rolling it out slowly. Now, before cosmetics for a lot of the popular characters become available, the skins are getting bundled into limited-time packages that leave the store. Cool, cool, cool.

And also the non-licensed holiday-themed skins are "exempt" from being available for shards. Also very cool.

A lot of these things already cost money, so why lie to people and say they're going to be free if they're not? That's the part I don't get.

god you can never trust bhvr can you, when finally they start doing good decisions and you think they finally understood how to handle their game and listen to the community they soon after come up with something to greatly upsets their community.

please reconsider this bhvr, don't be like other greedy companies.

making the skins available all the time is more beneficial to you than this #########.

YES, THIS! Tysm for finding it <3 I mean business is business at the end of the day, albeit scummy or not, end-results are often one and the same anyways.

But yeah, they're not getting any money from me anymore lmao. I'll have my characters wearing the most basic B default outfits ✌️

The fact they were asking to be voted for "Labor of Love" prior and then decided to make previous cosmetics time-limited is hilarious.

I love this game to death, but the developers are greedy as hell.