I don’t think they’ve added a single commissary cosmetic in years. None that I can remember since last September when I was complaining about this.
I feel like having a blue and a red skin for every mark of every weapon should be the goal. It sounds like a big ask, but we’re only talking about recoloring a bunch of pre-existing texture files. (I mean, I think. I’m not a graphic artist.) Like it might take a while and wouldn’t be very interesting but I doubt it would need a whole new pipeline or anything.
But cosmetics are one of the ways they make money, surely they won’t want to spend time on some customization options that might make players less likely to shell out for the chance to make their weapon shinier, right?
Okay fine, let’s all put on our cynical hats. Even working on this assumption, having some skins be clearly missing is bad for the game as a whole. This was the point of my previous thread’s title. It’s really unpolished. It feels like it’s unfinished. That doesn’t inspire confidence in people just coming into the game and looking around at what’s available. Nothing for the bolt pistol, shock maul, double barrel shotgun, ogryn shovel, grenade gauntlet, and all four of the new Arbites exclusive weapons. This feels almost condescending. I feel like that’s more likely to turn players off paying for cosmetics than motivate them to pay to look cooler. POLISH IS IMPORTANT.
If you really need a way to make money off of more cosmetics, you could have an Expanded Commissary License that costs premium currency, and it lets you buy (with dockets) colors and camo patterns beyond just the blue and red. Maybe dress it up as Lady Alice letting us buy from her back room deal stock or something.