Tbf even if stuff was guaranteed to return, you might still miss it then.
Even if it is guaranteed to return, maybe you won’t see an other cosmetic that you like, for a bunch of weeks. What are you gonna wear during that time?
And if you see something alright during that time, are you gonna buy that? Because it is not your preferred cosmetic, but it might still be the coolest one that you get access to for months.
Here is one reason for why the FOMO sales strategy will not stop (at least not everywhere):
If you see 100 options at the same time, you will buy your top 1 favorite. Maybe your top 5 favorites.
When ever something new is released, it is in direct competition with all of the other things that already exist.
Unless the new release is cooler than 95% of the other things, you won’t buy it.
If you only see 3 options at a time, you can only tell which one of those 3 options is your favorite.
If you kinda like one of the them, you might buy it.
When you see the next 3 options, you can again only tell, which one of those 3 options is your favorite. If any of those 3 options is better than what you already have, you might buy that, too.
Same thing happens again and again.
By the time you have seen 100 options, you will probably have bought your top 30 options, instead of your top 5. Because there never was a point in time, where you could have known, which out of the 100 options would be your 5 favorite ones.
And even if you had known, it is likely that you still would have bought something else as well, in order to have something to wear until one of your top 5 options shows up in the store.
Also, by constantly rotating the items that are on sale, everything (including returning items) always seems like it is new. A lot of people get excited by anything that is new.
They look at the store and there is something “new” there. Very exciting. Must buy.
If that same person would start playing the game and immediately see 100 options in the cash store, they would be very excited about so many things being offered, but that excitement wears off quickly, and they would not drop 500 bucks at once, while the excitement lasts.
People are much more likely to spend 500 bucks, when repeatedly spending smaller sums over a long period of time. That way, they have no grasp of how much money they have actually spent.
Of course, this does not work with every single person or every single game.
Some players might not stick around for long enough to see anything in the store, that they would be interested in buying. A company would probably make more money of those players, if they had been able to see all options at once.
Some other players stick around for a long time and are the perfect victims for FOMO stores.
In their case, a big store page would not make as many sales.
The answer is simple: do 1 shop with all cosmetics. Ordo dockets or aquillas as prises. No confusion, no FOMO.
Real d!ck move if it doesnt return. Highly doubt theyd do one off shoot skins unless it’s a special event skin.
It especially wouldnt make sense to do so for cash cows like Krieg.
We have cosmetics that havent returned for soon 2 years now. FOMO store is a chode move, no if about it
It is, but im willing to bet that we’ve seen those skins that havent returned in some other way/form. Either way, theyd for sure not do one-offs for cash cows/perceived good skins.
Fortunately for me, I jus see something I like and don’t fomo later. Only 7 induvidual cosmetic pieces copped + 2 weapon skins.
I really hope they didn’t pay anyone external to come up with the cosmetic shop design. The whole approach is comically bad from the business perspective, product exposure and sales.
Also Fatshark, this is called micro-transactions for a reason. Volume of sales NOT whales. Stop buying into more toxic and malicious game design practices.
If it was this bad, than I think they would’ve made some more radical changes to it.
There is a reason FOMO cosmetic shops are everywhere right now, and that is because they work. I assume DT is no different.
I think that partially, the aggressive + genuinely malicious monetization structures are down to the game missing deadlines. Obviously this is all internal and I’m speculating, but oftentimes when games miss deadlines and start being a net drain the financial pressure becomes insurmountable to just cut your losses + ship it + recoup with aggressive monetization. Darktide fits the criteria of “delayed a lot already” and “shipped unfinished anyway” and “aggressive monetization” (relatively) so I am pretty confident this happened to them.
In other words, if a Fatshark dev whispered into my ear and told me they actually did want to make aquilas grindable, and they actually did want to let you get weapon skins for free or recolor your gear yourself, and that the store was never meant to be a FOMO pos, I would easily believe it. Unfortunately that’s not how it panned out. Instead they had to ship it and monetize it to recoup the losses.
The shops rotation is their to pressure people into parting with their money or wait an extortionate amount of time for a maybe if they come back.
It’s cynical, nasty, and manipulative, and what you posted from Aqashy was just corporate lying b****x passed down from the greedy $&$*s above.
the only thing that bothers me to a very small extend is having to wait through “bad” rotations.
playing mainly one class, 6 weeks are ample time to check the offer, yet sometimes months literally “pass”
so not having an option to skip 10 nopes is the nuisance here if anything for me.
so i’d call it r.age o.f u.seless w.aiting 
kinda agree
Want some things but have to wait for the slop shop to rotate is stupid.
Just put everthing up in the store
from players perspective i’d like all items at once but mix and match-able on a micro level.
like any look with any armor patch. no one shoulder pad and the other naked, so we can do symmetry ourselves if needed be.
i mean come on gw, you got leopard skin ogryn pimp trousers, how more “mix and match” can it get?
price the items, not the bundle and even increase your profit to work both ways.
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