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Cosmetics are far too expensive!
I know many people have touched on this topic but I just can't get over the outrageous price of these things and now the pig has cosmetics that actually cost EVEN MORE.... I'm not being cheap because I've spent way too much on auric cells in the past and have most cosmetics but I would like to see them in game more often and to be honest I don't blame people for not having them because of the outrageous cost. I'm seriously at the point where I am forced to boycott the purchase of new cosmetics until the price is at least cut in half because I think of the amount of things I can get on other games at a fraction of the cost of one outfit. To think that the purchase of one outfit is more than a chapter release is a little absurd and I hope more people stop buying them until they are little less expensive. I personally think they could make way more money if they cut the prices in half and gave credit for the ones who purchased at full price, otherwise they will be creating cosmetics for no reason when everyone gets to the point where I'm at and refuses to buy auric cells until they become a little more viable. I just can't see spending ten dollars on one cosmetic for a character I probably won't use much until the next cosmetic comes out. I really hope the dev's come to their senses and realize the amount of money they actually lose with the high cost of cosmetics. Especially since the cosmetics become outdated almost immediately as fast as they come out. Its unfortunate...
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M cote needs a bonus check or his kids cant afford a island in the pacific!
btw heard civ 5 is awesome.
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Cosmetics can't be "outdated". They have no bearing on the game do it's really only a matter of preference. They're a bit steep I'll admit but unlike games with lootbox systems, DbD let's you get them outright. And again, they have no impact on gameplay meaning they can cost any amount and it's honestly fair. If they were cheaper people might buy more though. I feel better paying 2-3 bucks here and there than I do shelling out $10 on a single outfit for a single character. I'd be more inclined to buy cosmetics occasionally if they were cheaper. Instead they're not getting more from me by charging more, I'm just choosing not to buy them at all.
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While I won't spend the price, others are willing to. Obviously they have enough people willing to spend the price or BVHR would have already altered pricing.
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They’re overpriced but you aren’t forced to buy them.
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Air conditioners are also expensive.
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I agree 100%. When the store first I launched I was fine with them because I thought the devs needed to make their money back from creating all of these new cosmetics and that they'd lower the prices soon. They didn't, and now we're stuck with $10-15 outfits. New characters already cost $4-5 and Chapters cost $7-8, depending on your platform. A single skin should never cost more than a new character. There's so many cosmetics that I want but I refuse to pay the current prices. Here's how I would fix them:
Event cosmetic piece: 300 Auric Cells
Event outfit: 700 Auric Cells
Uncommon and Rare cosmetic pieces: 100 Auric Cells
Very Rare cosmetic pieces: 200 Auric Cells
Very Rare outifts: 500 Auric Cells
Uncommon and Rare outfits: 300 Auric Cells
I'd also release a 100 Auric Cell pack for $1 and a 300 Auric Cell pack for $3. I'm not sure if I'd make the Common cosmetics come with the base game (maybe they could be unlockable through leveling up the character to 50) or just lower the shard price because they're literally just color swaps. They just do something like change your blue shirt to a green one. That's all. Nothing special.
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I don't mind the price.
I'd mind if they were lowered permanently though unless everyone who has bought tons of skins gets something for paying more.
Imo the middle ground here is regular sales.
People that paid $10 don't get cheated and skins become cheaper in a rotation. Maybe like a skin shrine of secrets?
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Wait for a sale? They happen you know ...
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They're pretty rare, don't last that long, only for specific cosmetics, and don't even lower the Auric Cell price. You have to save up 21.6k shards in around a week. If you didn't happen to have a lot of shards saved up by the time the sale happens, then you're screwed. I don't think we are told about it until the day of or before the sale, so we have no time to save up shards. It's basically "Hey do you happen to have a lot of shards on you? We're going to put select cosmetics on sale for a week! Oh you barely have any shards saved up? Oh well sucks to be you!"
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Ahh .. well ... I spend McDonalds money here and there on the game so this doesn't bother me too much and there aren't many cosmetics I want in the game. I can see why (some) people are displeased tho.
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Ikr I was so hyped for the Tapp cosmetics, f i n a l l y. And they all cost cells. But like, I could get a new outfit for MYSELF for that spicy price. I won't give that much money for some virtual pixels.
I know they'r fishing for whales but they're still reeeally really overpricing that stuff. Pass.... Sadly.
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Yeah cosmetics are beautiful, but at best, the best ones should be 350 and they should lower every cosmetic except event ones down 50 cells. It's ridiculous.
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What gets me is if you decide to try and save up shards (buying through playtime) it's takes insanely long to equal the total price of either the whole outfit or just a piece of the outfit.
How are you going to claim to give us alternatives yet the alternative is borderline unreachable?
27,000+ shards for an entire outift, but not only that, MORE AND MORE of the cosmetics they're releasing are NOT PURCHASABLE WITH SHARDS, and that's a problem.
They also fragment the cost of auric cells it takes to spend on a cosmetic so you will sometimes have to buy TWO packs of auric cells to gain one cosmetic (if that).
It's becoming too much. DBD is not Fortnite, I understand they're doing what seems that everyone else is doing, but to do that at the risk of alienating your core playerbase is unforgivable.
They announced a battlepass system, and archives, okay that's fine. But that will only compound to the problem, because I can just imagine when the battlepass comes out more clothing in the cosmetics store will increase in price.
PLEASE STOP!
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Oh and then to add to this, if you have this game on different platforms you're unable to transfer data, cosmetics, and etc.
This is so screwy. I feel they're focusing on the wrong things. The gameplay has been the same for upwards of 3 years with little to no change except EGC. Yes this game is growing and can retain some players but overall to Shell out this much money on an essentially unchanging/unevolving online game is madness to me.
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You do realize that cosmetics are optional, right?
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One skin should not be 10$
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Uh, just don't buy them. Geez.
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Only buyable cosmetic I can support is Charity Case ones. If people want to buy 15€ skins so be it. But I cant support such prices.
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This game does have the most expensive cosmetics that I can think of. I would be alot more if prices were halved personally.
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Seriously
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I know cosmetics are optional, but that doesn't make it ok that they are so expensive! One set of cosmetics costs more than a chapter, makes no sense.
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@Fog_King Again, those are optional. You vote with your wallet, like it then go for it.
If you can't afford 10$ for something you really, really want (much enough to brag on forums about it) then you are either adult that really need to fix their life or not adult so you shouldnt play games like those anyway.
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While yes they’re purely just for looks and not P2W it’s still a bit dumb how the cost for Ghostface is 4.99$ yet a leather jacket with a dirty pig head and a drill is 15.00$. Yeah I buy cosmetics for the game and spend too much on it but that’s just me. However people who are just starting out and want to get all the chapters they have to pay roughly around 80.00$ or more. And oh boy if they want the cosmetics. I get cosmetics are a big part of keeping the servers running and it’s clearly working but would something like weekly sales where either two or three cosmetics are 30-40% off for a the weekend or even a day? That or make certain sets be purchasable by shards for a limited time but are on rotation?
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When have I ever said I don't have money to buy the cosmetics? What I said is that they are expensive. I have money, but I won't spend 10$ on fictional pieces of clothes for this game. Maybe if it was half the price, I would and maybe others would too. Being optional doesn't make it untrue that they are expensive.
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Move here to Argentina! We have a diferent price range for Auric cells. We could play together! You would hate it though, because I would surely tunnel and/or camp you... not if I mori you first though ;-)
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Agree completely with the fact the cosmetics are WAY overpriced. I would buy some cosmetics if the nice ones weren't so expensive.
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Businessess will milk the crowd until sales drop then prices drop, this is how all business is done.
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@DrDeepwound Since when do companies lower microtransaction prices after a while? I've only seen the opposite happen.
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Capitalism bootlickers at it again with the "it just optional but if u too poor to afford 15dollar skins u still a lesser human being xoxo"
Stay classy.
On a serious note, even though I could afford it, I will not buy it. I don't think the price is even close to reasonable. No other game takes that much money for 1 Piece of cosmetics. And I think it's sad, since almost every cosmetic that has come out lately is cells only.
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Was speaking in general about business practices, but you are correct, this type of transactions are usually very aggressive with their targets.
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While I personally don't buy skins from any game as its well just fluff imo it is the market that dictates the price.
No buyers means lower prices or no skins at all. If people pay and they sell alot then the price is on point.
I think they are expensive for what they are but that's a personal opinion. The actual dlc is cheaper which is good and if the price of skins helps keep it that way I'm all for it and thank those who do purchase them.
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They should make cell-only cosmetics timed exclusives rather than permanent (not including licensed cosmetics).
So older cell-only cosmetics could be bought with shards after eg. 6 months.
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"The gameplay has been the same for upwards of 3 years with little to no change except EGC."
Some very fundamental things have changed. If we went back to some of the 2016 stuff, you guys would freak out! :D
Totems (and therefore Hex Perks) did not exist until the Hag shipped. Hook sabotage used to be permanent (man I can't even imagine what that must have been like).
There are other fundamentals that have changed. The EGC is certainly more obvious a change as it's really in your face, but many less obvious things have changed that greatly impacted the general play of the game.
:)
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It's either cosmetics and DLCs, or a monthly fee to keep servers running.
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Survivors still run in circles from pallet to pallet.
Survivors still have a single objective.
Problems that killers have with gameplay are bandaid fixed and sold as DLC perks.
Balance is decided by people who do not know enough about the game to make balance decisions.
Core issues with the game have not been addressed since its beginning.
I could go on, but it's getting old and always falls on deaf ears.
Superficial changes have been made, but outcry over core issues remain and ignored.
Instead of fixing the grind, let's create a new one with the incoming BattlePass....
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Yeah you all are ridiculous. $10 is a reasonable amount for the cosmetics. You all are not even considering the time and money it takes to make these cosmetics.
On top of that cosmetics comes out between every chapter. And I say within each chapter the average person probably buy 1-2 cosmetics. Based on that we looking at 4 chapters = 8 cosmetics purchases = $80 a year.
Now it’s fine that you all are never going to buy the cosmetics because there are plenty of us who are fine with the price.
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I love how this entire thread regards the price of cosmetics, and yet we have Devs replying to the sole comment regarding something totally unrelated to the cosmetics.
They clearly don't see the price of cosmetics as an issue. As much as I'd love to see changes to how cosmetics are bought/obtained, I believe that this comment alone shows that they simply pick and choose what player concerns to listen to, and are perfectly content charging an arm an a leg for an outfit.
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Honestly they could make more money if cosmetics equaled $6 or $7 I would find that price reasonable. But $10 for just about every cosmetic? that is highway robbery
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No DBD hasn't changed all that much at base with the objective being the same and refusing to evolve the objective beyond do gens....and do gens fast is the meta right now. Plus a lot of bugs recently and perks that are kinda op....didn't Cote say gen times are fine on a few occasions?
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Yeah, cosmetics are a rip-off, but in what game are they not? There prices are a lil steep tho for me. I bought clowns Halloween outfit and the devil GF and that's it. Would love to get more, but it just ain't worth it.
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What makes it even worse is if you fork out for survivor cosmetics you get dodged if you dare try to use them for fear of being toxic...
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Cosmetics prices could stay the same but they all have to be earnable except license killers 10k shards a skin
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I love survs that do that. Nothing better than seeing a pink or white shirt from half-way across the map. Got YA! They should definitely lower the cost of bright outfits for survivors... Lmao😈
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I think if all survivors appeared as default in the lobby it would dramatically help with lobby dodging. Show items obviously - just not cosmetics...
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I think they are a little pricey personally. I would probably buy almost every cosmetic if they were 5 or 6 bucks instead of 10. At least have a trade in option for skins you might not want anymore. Maybe 30%-40% of the original cost refunded in auric cells so someone could trade an old one but still have to buy auric cells to buy the new cosmetics. It just wouldn't be as hard to buy new cosmetics if you knew there was a little lasting value in it. I honestly think they would make sooo much more money if they did.
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i wouldnt mind the prices if they did other rarity cosmetics more often than any very rare cosmetic, cuz honestly the last non-very rare cosmetic weve had is janes paint skin i think and before that one i think itd be the feng yellow ones(maybe?)
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I also think they are too expensive.
And generally, a game does not take money absolutely everywhere, but it chooses one or two methods. Not all.
- The incomplete game: paying.
- The DLCs: paying.
- Cosmetics: paying.
- The future battlepass: paying.
- Soon an extra subscription to play DBD?
The incomplete game should already be free (this would bring new players...) and refunded 75% of the open price in auric cells to players who bought it.
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Lol sounds like you play waaay too much Fortnite, NBA 2K, and Black Ops 4. You’ve been desensitized to overpriced microtransactions. The only skins that your argument could have a chance of working for are the recent event skins. BHVR has grown enough and DbD has a big enough fanbase to where they can lower the prices and still make a ton of money. They unfortunately let the greed get to their heads when pricing these cosmetics. Also, are you really trying to justify cosmetics costing more than a character? Chapters are $7-8. Paragraphs are $4-5. Individual characters are 500 Auric Cells ($5). You can buy 2-3 new characters for the price of a single skin in a game that normally costs $20-40. That’s absolutely insane.
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First of all, I don’t play any of those games that you mention.
Secondly, I’m fortunate enough to buy the cosmetics so I could careless if the price was lowered or not. And even then I don’t buy everything that is released.
Lastly, you have the archive that is coming which will allow you to earn some cosmetics for free. Buying cosmetics is the way of supporting the devs.
You all are constantly trying to validate why the cosmetics needs to be lowered. No one is forcing you to buy cosmetics.
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I think it would be nice if they gave some kind of value to the cosmetics. $10 isn't that much but when you have bought a couple hundred dollars worth of cosmetics and realize you hardly use a good portion anymore, it would be nice to maybe have some value left in them. I think it would be genius if you could sell a cosmetic back at 30 or 40% of an auric cell refund to use towards a cosmetic you want. People would still have to buy auric cells to complete the purchase of the cosmetic they want and they would be much more inclined to buy more cosmetics. When I look at all the skins I don't even use anymore, I can't justify buying anymore until they are either less expensive or retain some kind of value in trade. I think it would be nice to actually see more people using the cosmetics in the game too. I haven't seen too many of the newer cosmetics and I think it's because a lot of people agree on this topic.
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