That’s already happened this time as well lol
We got a we’re listening to the steel legion pricing and then the next weapon skin bundle to come out was much more expensive and lazy than the last.
I put chicken bone on gun, set the colour swatch to black and some lucky guns got a skull png. 900 Aquilas please.
Then we got a we’re listening in response to our response of that’s utterly insane to that
So emperor help us for what’s next
Players want a broader cosmetic catalogue – we hear you loud and clear!
You can now pre-purchase early access to the next store rotation for only $18.99!
Much like in this, for even the cosmetics like the Veteran Grey Tank Top which iirc doesn’t require any penance, and is a “basic” torso cosmetic-- why can’t we just be able to change its color to green, black, etc? Been wanting to have this even simply to reflect a Catachan Jungle Fighter.
Speaking of which, its been difficult to wait for another rotation where they even would offer a green tank top or sleeveless green flak torso (i.e. Commandos Battlegear) that befits the Catachan cosmetic look.
Another difficult rotation waiting game has been for a chance to obtain a Commissar Great Coat and another opportunity to obtain Officers Jacket (Grisfield Style) Black and Red
the dark steel weapons don’t look bad, but are very similar to standard issues. and then 900 aquilas for 1 item with a few silly chicken bones that would break at the first swing. we had complete weapons packs for 800. this rotation looks like testing how much they can get away with.
Just make the commissary a place where you purchase colors, camos, and materials to customize your character “for the drip” style. Emperor knows i need a proper money sink for all my dockets.
ACTUALY UNIQUE weapon and clothing models can just be sold at the commodore’s vestures without all the FOMO bull, and whatever duplicates with slightly different color schemes you purchased before this change gets refunded in aquilas.
BOOM. Cosmetic system fixed, and people stops holding money out on you to spite your shitty predatory practices
that would be a great way to change things up and would be a big win for everyone
So never happening
That would be good and make sense 2 things that make fatshark management recoil in fear of.
From what I’ve seen, from what I understand from fat shark. If we want something we have to show demand.
I still remember when the game dropped and everyone collectively was horrified by the crafting system. Someone had to prove to management that players weren’t happy, so they dropped a poll requesting feedback. It was like someone’s head was so buried in the sand they needed hard data that the forums, reddit, discord, and steam reviews weren’t biased poor reflections of community sentiment.
Now we’re here again. If you want change, make your voice heard.
I mean. We’ve been doing that.
We can’t make our voices heard since, as you said, every single source of community feedback is being ignored as biased.
Now if @FatsharkStrawHat could get them to do another ‘launcher poll’, sure, but I have the feeling that their response to the first one (which was pretty poorly written and seemed heavily massaged) was to bury their heads in the sand and ignore it.
The same people who said ‘we don’t give players what they want, we give them what they need’ are still in charge here.
Not to mention. That strawhat is nowhere to be seen for a while now.
Her last post on that matter was that they’re working on a way to have polling in-game as the launcher would only reach PC players. And as that takes coding it is progressing slowly.
That argument was and still is a hefty dose of BS of course.
Please dont give them ideas! 
There are a million different ways that Fatshark could monetize the sale of colors to the playerbase. Colors can be event rewards, penance rewards, a part of a DLC, or just a plain buy-from-the-shop aquila sink. Pick your poison. This really feels like one of those no-brainer features that’s just plain missing for some mysterious reason.
There are sets that I don’t buy strictly because I don’t like the color. There are pieces I haven’t bought because they don’t match what I want to use them with. That could all change if Fatshark wanted it to.
Anyway, for what it’s worth, this idea has my enthusiastic support!
We’ve been doing that for 2 years now
many here would pay for the base model / skin and have the option of recoloring it.
fatshark seems to think that selling recolors earns them more.
prove them wrong so they change this stance?
I know, my point is to blow the thread up.
They have no data point to prove otherwise
Unfortunately they are provably correct. Here’s an example and many such examples exist:
The system pays off for them. It probably took one guy like half a workday to make those skins and there are many thousands of whales who will buy them because they just might aswell, they like cosmetics and their bi-weekly ritual of spending 80 bucks on the whole store contents. It’s only 80 dollars once every two weeks, after all.
I’m not seeing an argument for why Fatshark should sell a customization system instead if THIS is what people pay for.
The problem with any Tencent / Fatshark corpos allowing the store to be reworked is they think the predatory FOMO system is why this guy buys everything. Maybe they’re right.
If they made all cosmetics available, some spreadsheeter would reason, many people would make purchases who otherwise wouldn’t, but they’d lose the manipulative stranglehold they have on people like this. Free customization would be a whole other level of profit loss.
If they can exploit just a few people to the fullest amount, it doesn’t matter how terrible it is for everyone else.
the problem with that strategy is that it burns the player base, and eventually when the rest of the playerbase leaves you lose your whales with them.
The game’s been out for 2 years. That’s ~104 weeks. There’s been some repeat stores as far as I know, so let’s say a fifth of them were repeats (generous, recolors dont count as repeats). So let’s say 84 weeks or so, quick math. He’s been paying 80 USD (roughly? I’m not sure about exacts. I think one main bundle is 15 dollars roughly per class plus the little offset cosmetics) every 2 weeks. So in the end you can guesstimate that he paid roughly 3400 USD for this game so far. He mentioned he’s from a wealthy country, Norway, and cosmetics may very well be far more expensive there. I do know they do regional pricing.
He mentioned that he compares it to other hobby expenses and the expenses of going out drinking for one night, which I think would fall out of the water when he’s dropping that much money. So I personally think no, far less people would pay 3400 USD in one go to buy out a cosmetic store, but they do via the FOMO model. This is nothing new, psychologically upfront payments feel worse than subscriptions, too, even if they end up at the same price.
I don’t mean to put the fellow on the spot too much, but it’s the actual case example, I can’t really help it. Your chance to ask him there if you wanna hear it from the horses mouth though, I guess.
As for the point of
Perhaps, but if you can buy whatever you want and those people just want the one thing, wouldn’t they spend 15x4 dollars tops, one for each class? You’d need 50 of those people for each whale for that to check out.