The FOMO issue... again, but good news

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide General Discussion
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Normally I try to approach things with with a better outlook on things.

But the fomo shop is tiresome to say the least.
but I reckon everyones in agreement but at the very least it seems somethign is being done about it.

[Now this is directly for fatshark if they see this.]
I hope this gives a rightious slap upside the head to whoever pigeonholed so many cosmetics to the store when players late game are starved for things to unlock and earn.

So after you reorganise your shop in response. kindly stop shoving so many things into the store and start putting more into player drops and/or stuff we can craft.

You’ve got a good game, but the late game drive is weak when all I have to look forward too after my next 100 acheivment points is more crafting mats and dockets I no longer need and the next unlock are an emote animation to use in a hub area with less social autmosphere than the auction house in stormwind.
Ironicly the vermintide 1 red moon inn was easly the most sociable area. People bonded over that stupid chandalier.

So please, less portraits, more cosmetic unlocks, you have a character customisation station you can add too, give us more faces, weird skin tones hair, abhuman mutations, bodytype 2 and extra voices for ogryn, tattoos and cybernetic grafts. Humanity in 40k have so many freakish veriants.

The community has given plenty of ideas, even the right wing idiots had a good one under the odd blue moon.

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Do you think you will be receiving free cosmetics en masse? Haha

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Mid 2026. It will change things… Companies did not act on their own, now the Commission will impose rules.
As Fatshark is Sweden, no doubt they will have to follow.

I suggest, considering the time they need to create anything, that they should start working on a new shop.
Like that, it could be ready for 2029.

But, to be honest, I don’t wait anything till the regulation is adopted.

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Free no, but a catalogue is most likely what will happen. (plus showing the real price of stuff)

At the same time those laws could lead to changes in Europe while keeping the rest in what is currently.

Like Belgium has a loot box being illegal, and by hopping the border I could access them if I wanted to.

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I doubt a company wants to retire from a market of 450 millions potential customers.
That’s the Europe strength.
But yes, they could make the changes just for Europe… I live in Europe, so that’s good for me…

To compare, USA is 340 millions.

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Yeah there was a psycher costume I saw and really liked near when I started playing the game a couple years ago. I didn’t buy it but wish I had.

Not seen it since.

This has happened a good few times now.

FS literally lost out on multiple purchases from me alone.

It’s not like people have expendable income readily available every single week in some uniform fashion. We sometimes have money and we sometimes dont.

It’s not rocket science.

If the costumes were in a catalogue then I’d buy when I have money. Pretty simple.

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This tbh

IMO just turn shop rotation into catalogue:

There are too many cosmetics to effectively rotate through, and more all the time. With a rotation you are incentivised to show what will sell most or is new. So lots of gear gets under-represented, gear which you could otherwise monetise with acquilas. Some lame recolour for instance. You can keep fomo with seasonal unlocks.

For lore, just say Hallowette dumped a bunch of goods to the Commissary. You could throw the community a bone and make some of them (recolours) purchasable with dockets, and sell the rest for acquilas. Hopefully the dev work isn’t too nasty on that one.

…

But then again…

Maybe sucking the hope out of players and denying their agency is simply an elaborate ploy to replicate the 40K universe…

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Adding this one to the Book. Cosmetics and their BS are currently the single largest issue.

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Computer game industry has been trying so hard to become the gambling “industry” it hurts to watch. Sooner they get denied, better for the actual computer games and gamers.

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Worst… with this system you can face the fact that you already own the cosmetics proposed.
This is what happened for me for the 2 last rotations.

So you end at waiting a missed cosmetic that never come, and while you often face a store full of things you have already bought.

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someone must be convinced that treating their customers like gamblers gets them more revenue.

it might be true unfortunately in the short term because of human nature, but one can’t pull this off indefinitely. people will walk away and look for other games.

i feel being treated like a moron when i want to buy an article and the vendor says “no, you can buy this only when the stars align”.

as i’ve said before, i kept playing darktide for the sake of the game itself, and despite such “retention tactics”.

such regulation is welcome if it forces companies to be more competitive.

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I’m assuming that is why the EU is passing these laws or regs or whatever they have over the pond. Gambling establishments and drug dealers are cut from the same cloth, just predators looking for an easy meal and without regard to the life ruination their vices/psychological tricks cause.

Edit: Thankfully I don’t think too many people’s lives are being ruined by this crappy FOMO shop in specific lol.

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of course not you dense sumpdweller.

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the biggest frustration is it took the EU kicking them in the pants to make it happen.

I appreciate fatshark on the level they seem to treat their employies fairly. But I’m sincerly tired of fomo and shitty penny pinching, I get they gotta make dosh. But even in the shitty economic nonsense of late stage capitalism a fair profit can be made in their posistion.

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A weird take. I suspect most of us simply want a VT2 style shop, with transactions in ACTUAL currencies and no FOMO. A sensible pricing might be a start too. Less cheap uninspired slop might be on that list also, for those here who care about the quality of cosmetics.

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I blame tencent

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You can.

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How is the fomo shop tiring? I mean this is just hilarious to me because you dont at all have to engage with it nor does it have anything to do with gameplay. I genuinely dont understand why people continue to cry about a cash shop when you can just act like it doesnt exist. This game crashed every day on xbox for 9 months straight and yet yall are complaining about a cash shop. The cash shop is the least of a players concerns when it comes to darktide because it doesnt change anything regarding playing the game and at the end of the day its an fps game so who really cares what your character looks like but thats just my take on it. Its the gameplay I care about and the gameplay has kept me playing for thousands of hours.

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But you used to have to walk past it! /s

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Yeah this take is always so hilarious to me like holy crap dude a fomo cash shop is like complaint #99 with this game lol. They talk about a fomo shop as if its some new concept when everyone does it. Fortnite does it, call of duty does it, the list goes on and on its not new and many games have seasons which is technically even more fomo caked into the game. Weve been waiting like almost 6 months for new vet gear, almost half a year for something new to play with on a character and theyre actually complaining about a fomo shop. How bout content in a timely fashion?