Do Haddie mains even play the game?

I like Haddie's diver cosmetic a lot. It's one of the few (only?) times I think the backpack accessory is a good addition. I don't play her much if ever, though. And I see another person playing her maybe once a month or so. She's rare. Probably the rarest female survivor, at least in my matches.

BHVR is like any other business: they make what sells. The complainers are like people walking into a clothing store and going, "Ohmigod, they're neglecting itchy burlap bellbottoms, why aren't they catering to people who like those?" Well, the answer would be because the item doesn't bring in enough money. Digital cosmetics don't have stock issues, but they still require man hours, and those aren't free. People's wages need to be paid. If you have your people waste time designing cosmetics that barely sell when there are other characters whose cosmetics sell a crapton, it's bad resource management and it's how people lose their jobs. If players want BHVR to make cosmetics for a character, they have to vote with their wallets. And if not enough people purchase the cosmetics, BHVR won't make more. It sucks for the people who like an unpopular character, but that's how businesses survive.

Maybe the people who like unpopular characters so much should form a group to do all the work of designing and modeling cosmetics for those characters for free. Perhaps BHVR could call them unpaid interns. Otherwise, these players are expecting BHVR to lose money over this stuff, and that's unreasonable. The people designing and modeling those cosmetics need their jobs, they need to be paid so they can afford basic necessities. The bullying I've seen on X (formerly known as Twitter) about this stuff is absolutely disgusting. I mean, 1. it's people's livelihoods, it's paying the server costs, it's making up for how cheap chapters are, it's not a charity; and 2. these are pixel outfits for fictional pixel characters.

On a personal note, I don't like a lot of BHVR's cosmetic designs. They really need to go a better direction with their stuff. Legion gets some of the best cosmetics in the game (yeah, I specifically like Susie's style of '90s wear). Which sucks, because I don't play as Legion. But it shows BHVR could do better designs for survivors. The type of futuristic designs they do for Gabriel are ugly. They've done basically nothing but ridiculous outfits for Vittorio. And BHVR doesn't have to stick to any theme for a character, they could throw in at least a few off-theme outfits to mix it up. But BHVR does some really weird, inexplicable (and unattractive) designs, and I'm not the only one who feels that way because I don't see other people wearing those outfits when I play. So BHVR's designers need to move on from their own personal tastes (like the backpack obsession), because apparently a lot of the playerbase does not share their preferences. And when they do do outfits for unpopular characters, they need to actually do good outfits, because it does feel like a lot of those are set up to fail. Are they just testing to see if the players of those unpopular characters will buy anything? Are they avoiding doing outfits everyone will like on purpose? Do they not want to waste their good ideas on unpopular characters?

It feels like the designers go dumpster diving behind failed movie studios to dress some characters. They should do cute cosmetics for some of the less-used characters; cute is popular. They could also try horror-themed more often, not just for Halloween. BHVR likes to call this a horror game, so they should treat it that way year-round.