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It's kind of funny you brought up that last point, because there is one glaring exception to the rule of BHVR's throwaway children, and that's Mikaela... who was heavily picked for a long time because she had the best survivor perk in five years and everyone wanted to level her up because of that.

So BHVR kept throwing cosmetics at her, those cosmetics were actually good, and between that and milking a popular aesthetic, the result was a new character with a very healthy following.

Was her witch aesthetic just a perfect storm that the likes of Zarina or Yui could never hope to have replicated? Or would it never have happened if Circle of Healing hadn't been a thing and she'd had Yoichi's perks instead? Could Haddie have been popular if she'd gotten a line of rugged adventurer outfits and Fog-touched garments right off the bat? I know people say Haddie is ugly, but last October I saw several people say Mikaela was hideous without makeup and her hair done up, so...

Not angry at it being Feng perse, more annoyed by the concept of cosplay skins like that in general. To me it just screams like a waste of time and effort on the dev team's end. Instead of giving Feng an outfit another character is getting, why not just give her something new instead? To me personally I look at it and I think "What does Feng have to do with Silent Hill or Resident Evil?" when I see the cosplay cosmetics. I'm not going to talk about the Felix cosmetic he got for Project W just because that's an entirely different conversation, as this specifically mentions Feng.

If it was something like the AoT crossover, I don't mind it because that's probably the better way to go about a crossover like that in dbd. However when we have characters from that license already fully fleshed out and their own characters, I don't personally find the idea of them sharing cosmetics with the original survivors. Instead of Feng being given a Silent Hill cosmetic, it should have been Pyramid Head or hell, just make another Cheyrl cosmetic from Silent Hill. You know, ACTUAL, Silent Hill characters. Not taking the same outfit and slapping it onto another character that has literally nothing to do with that IP.

Its not the company setting people to fail, its the community buying stuff for the same characters over and over and condemning the obscure into oblivion, its even noticeable on the "design cosmetic" contests, where the cashcows get a lot more designs submited by fans than the underdogs. People are just voting with their wallets, Im 99,99% sure if every single player who still plays buys all Adam outfits tomorrow in less than one month they announce a new skin for him.

The difference in lore lenght is because the game took a different approach to it from Jane onwards and it proves nothing, Feng, Meg, Kate and Ace also have a very limited and simplistic lores and they are the most played older characters while Haddie and Jonah have newer super long and detailed lores and they are fading into obscurity fast, same as the underdogs. Lore is something a lot of the players dont really pay much attention in DBD and I doubt people care much about it when deciding their mains and cosmetic sales.

Some characters didnt get reworked because they are fine the way they are, Jane, Jeff, Ash, Nancy, Steve and Yui have good graphics unlike Survivors released before them, you cant compare any of them to stuff like old Nea, Meg or Claudette, the graphic upgrade just put everyone before Jeff on par with the rest, also Survivor graphical update was done once and every single character before Jeff got upgraded independently of how popular they were (except Quentin but blame the license holders for that).

It's a joke.

Feng is cosplaying the Silent Hill 3 suit, with its bad PS2 graphics. Cheryl's DBD version is what it would look like in real life.

Yeah Bill does need some more outfits.

Her not being one of the original 4 doesnt really matter, as the store came out a little over a year after she did when The Clown and Kate were introduced

See, that's the thing, you can argue that Feng getting cosmetics doesn't detract from the devs doing updates because they tend to be two different teams, but Feng getting cosmetics does mean someone else isn't, because if they can make, for example, 3 cosmetics, at least 1 is unavoidably going to Feng instead of to someone that didn't have a cosmetic for a couple of months.

This doesn't mean you have to feel bad for liking the skin. No one is arguing whether the skins are good or not (and if they are, they're probably venting and missing the point). It means people with other mains have to make do with whatever Tome recolours they get every once in a blue moon and the occasional good cosmetic, while Feng gets an RPD rework cosplay cosmetic, a Pallet Visual Upgrade cosplay cosmetic and Feng cosplay Feng cosmetic every other week.

This also means, unavoidably, that the more cosmetics for Feng they make and the less cosmetics for others they make, the higher the chance players will drop their mains if they see a good cosmetic for her, which in turn means even more cosmetics for Feng because everyone plays her, making this a self fulfilling prophecy.

Ultimately, Feng is the Lux or the Ahri of this game. It doesn't matter if the skin makes no thematic sense for her, as long as you're giving something to her, you're guaranteed some steady income from it.

And, of course, people is salty about this.

Well yes but she's more representative of the general Asian public who would be playing DBD than say Yui Kimura or Yun-jin or even Jake Park. They are very out there characters who are very unique while Feng is a run of the mill E sports gamer who likes to drink and have snacks. Relatable lore does help and her being East Asian at a time when a large influx of East Asian players join helped her popularity.

Yes, but so is Claudette and she barely got anything last year. I think maybe 2 outfits and a Halloween shirt and some recolors. Huntress was outpaced by Trickster the most and least played killers. Dwight consistently gets cosmectics and he isn't even top three and so does Mikeala, Nea, and Kate. None of them top three.

The cosplay argument is mute at this point. They've featured a ton of these survivors for Attack on Titans, if that isn't cosplay what is? Felix got a cosplay outfit for Resident Evil, Blight now too. Dwight got an outfit from Pubg. All the collections feature themes like Greek Gods, beach, and Christmas. There really is no excuse to keep any of the other characters in line with their lore.

Because very recently Feng received a large amount of cosmetics in a short time span, (4 costumes if you include the deep rift recolour) I hope this won't mean that there will be a break in her cosmetic releases. It would be a let-down if I had to wait 3 whole months until her next costume.

Yeah they could be in top this year because we haven't had top 3 statistics for a while now and last time it was Feng, Meg, and Claudette. Claudette fell from 1st to 3rd probably because of her p3 skin nerf but also probably because they have been neglecting her or giving her the most hideous cos there is. Stats before that had Feng as 3rd so what turned it around? Could it be cosmetics? If so, in theory the devs could spread the love to someone else by investing in fun and creative cosmetics instead of the trash heap every once and a while cos they throw at the less played characters.

I haven't forgotten they did a call for artists to work on cos for them, so hopefully the community will have better ideas than the devs.

Adam has received five outfits in fourteen Tomes (Tomes 3, 5, 11 & 13. One of them is a reskin of a Store cosmetic, and another is a Deep Rift variant of the same cosmetic. That means he's received three total original Tome outfits over the course of four years. I'm sure someone's already mentioned that Feng is getting three original outfits this month alone.

His last original Store cosmetic release? Part of the Korean collection in March 2021.

Him getting a nice cosmetic + a recolour in the previous Rift is nice, but means hardly anything.

I mean it's always a buzz kill when the time for new cosmetics rolls around and your excited your main might get something cool finally and nope it's just Feng again.

the issue isnt how many she has, its how many she consistently gets. 3 this update alone, 2 before that, 2 before that, 1 before that, etc etc

"Feng having cosmetics doesn't take away from others having cosmetics"

Actually by definition that is literally true. If they make a feng cosmetic, they can't make a david cosmectic.