Did you get enough of designing characters as if they were sexual and attractive?

Yeah you're probably right, but I can still hope that it'll happen someday.

Whilst it is a money-maker, the thirst side of DBD I've never got. It also felt a little like BHVR lost a part of their control by deciding to develop outfits to please certain fans.

It's not really a big thing for me whether the outfits are sexy or not, but this was a small example of a larger concern where the creativity is swayed by the public and not the vision. Early killers felt menacing and creepy. Some of the newer ones look like they've come off "The X Factor". It would be great to return to the more grotesque and creepy designs of earlier on.

I'm personally not a fan of playing games with over-sexualized characters, but it's also not wildly out of place.

A casanova/seductress is just as terrifying as the Boogieman, if not more.

How that translates to gameplay, however, is another story.

Creating a super attractive killer without translating any of the elements that make them truly terrifying (if that is at all possible to express in this format) makes for a very weak horror experience.

I personally would much prefer to see more of the grotesque and uncanny, because their fear factor translates very well to DBD.

Deathslinger, Trickster, Artist, Knight, and the Skull Merchant were all flops in my book. Deathslinger imo is salvageable, just by making him a dug-up undead cowboy with a heart for vengeance.

It seems like a more profitable way 

Well, the majority of the community was clear

These two parts don't agree with each other. What you are saying is that while the community bought the sexier designs, a vocal group doesn't like it.

As others have said, sex appeal and horror are really closely tied. If anything, BHVR is being more inclusive than the material they are drawing from, with more female killers and eye candy males.

Yeah that's the way it seems.

It's all shallow demographic pandering for money, that's all I see it as when it comes to this fanservice stuff.

The signs are all there but people don't care because spend money consume product satisfy brain

Keep in mind a lot of the playerbase will complain about the game to the point of saying they are boycotting it then some feng min skin releases and they go an instabuy it lmao.

That's funny🤣

I’m waiting for French Maid Dwight.

I want bad ass skins. Grungy, gritty stuff.

Sci-fi. Horror. Tribal.

Enough with catering and pandering to the thirst.

Sex appeal has its place in horror as well. Always has. Humans and they monster they create are often used to express concepts around sex and sensuality. People can be attracted to the more seductive qualities that lay within horrifying individuals and some monsters are built around that aspect.

Really all I'm saying is thirst has always been in horror and dbd is fine theme wise. It has something for everyone and if you're not into what is out now, give it time you'll get something you like later. Doesn't have to be huge doom and gloom that dbd's fallen off the pure path of horror. This game could be the most sterile and grim experience possible, like a warhammer 40k game, and people would still find someone or something to thirst over. At least horror has space for that crowd to be serviced without harming anything else.

Nothing wrong with sex appeal, but try to be a little tasteful about it. Trickster and Skull Merchant ain't tasteful, it's obvious they're designed to sell on sex appeal and that's not enough to make a character good. Vittorio is definitely a fanservice character and I think his design is silly and out of place, but at least he has a decent story to him.

It makes a lot of sense to consider the sexual appeal of the characters. I mean then do need to sell these characters, and what else does the Cheese Merchant offer?

The Spirit was very well designed. Make her scary first, then zoom in to her butt when the game loads in.

I mean, it doesn't have to be either or. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. I'm more into characters like Jeff or Illaoi (from League) than I am into Kate, for instance. I understand Kate is pretty, but it doesn't really do anything for me.

Plus, some people don't want to play with characters that are hot, but with characters they identify with. Someone closer to how they look, to make it easier for them to live the fantasy the game is offering through their character.

And others like playing Clown because "he he funny man throw bottle brrrrrrrrrr. Survivor cry. I laugh. Hue hue hue! :)"

In the end, what people want is variety. When character design narrows down to "Let's make them as hot as humanly possible and we'll think what they actually do later on" a massive amount of people gets neglected only to target as many wallets as possible with the minimum amount of effort. It's a good business move, but it's also understandable why a large amount of people would push back.

Ugh....the urge to post alot of drawings.

I'm not sure if it already exists, but how about "stupid sexy flanders" with a survivor and PH butt? Or any other killer of your preference 🤔