#No time limited content!

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winter belfry
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Lately there have been a lot of time limited cosmetics in the game including one at this very moment. I know this is done to create "fomo" and get a short boost of player numbers on paper but it doesn't contribute positively to the game or the community.

Most players really dislike time sensitive content since it is nothing more than infinitely copyable lines of code with an arbitrary date attached to it. If you already put in the effort to make this free content there is nothing positive to be gained from the community by attaching it to a date, if anything the opposite is true and players will get frustrated if they missed out on something which was supposed to be free with zero technical reason to not be available permanently because not everyone is checking game news 24/7 especially when they are busy or on holidays, besides this being a bad practice in general that really needs to go.

Please stop with this practice, thanks!

warm lagoon
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Personally doesn’t bother me

winter belfry
# warm lagoon Personally doesn’t bother me

It's not really about being bothered by it or not. It's out of principle. If there is no technical/meaningful logical reason for a bad practice then it should not be a practice that exists.

winter belfry
warm lagoon
winter belfry
warm lagoon
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No first message is

gusty ember
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So it’s better to pay irl money. It’s free come on. I don’t see this as a problem.

solid magnet
delicate leaf
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winter belfry
winter belfry
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To everyone giving downvotes: You are either not understanding my point or this has become such a standard practice that you don't care anymore which is a far larger problem than the first point. I never once said this content shouldn't exit, you seem to attach it to a perquisite of either you get nothing, you have to pay for it, or it HAS TO BE time limited for you get it it for free.

NONE of those are true. People have become so accustom to having to pay for skins that they have developed this mindset of getting something for your money by having a few extra textures. No you don't. Textures (especially repeating patters like every single one used in this case to make it compatible for all weapons) are one of the least complicated things to make. There is a reason why there are so many skin markets in games. It's the least possible developmental effort compared to potential profit.

I'd argue this game already has enough DLC which should be in the base game like ATV, Dogs, Tents, Treestands & Tripods, High Tech Weapons Pack, having to pay for new weapons and so on. The reason this crosses the line is because you put arguably essential gameplay elements behind a paywall. There has been way more outrage for less like Sega putting a New Game + mode behind a premium editions paywall of a game.

You can hate on me all you want but that doesn't change the fact that cosmetics are not even 1/1000 of development time compared to a new map with story missions, new species, voicelines and so on. And it would be even less if this game had something like actually existing characters outside of voicelines. Yet the price for these cosmetics is 3/8 of that of a full map. Let that sink in and now you know why it's done, encouraged to buy and also why prices nowhere near match the effort to the point where it might as well just be free. Other games also doing this is no excuse since this is a plague on the industry not a benefit. But please keep on defending for no reason.

wooden root
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Just put it in the store like the angler,big thumbs up for me.

crimson horizon
chilly marlin
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They are holiday events, gifts for the community within the time that the holiday event lasts, as has always been done in every online game since the internet was invented...
Having them available all year round ruins their entire meaning, it is the same as celebrating Christmas in July, or Halloween in March, at least I have never seen people celebrating festive events outside their dates 😶

winter belfry
# chilly marlin They are holiday events, gifts for the community within the time that the holida...

Hard disagree, by your logic you should also only have access to them in the game during the festive events and they should be gone after the event is over because there is no more reason to celebrate, see how that logic is flawed? But once you have them you can use them as you see fit so there is zero reason why you shouldn't have them permanently unlocked since it's nothing more than a code flag to check if you unlocked them or not which I really hope is not done server side like I heavily suspect cause it also means once they are offline in however many years or just under maintenance you also lose access to the content. There are countless examples how practices like these are bad for game preservation.

chilly marlin
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You enter the game, celebrate the event on the date that everyone does and receive your gift, simply.
It's a gift and you use it however you want and all the time you want, if they took it away from you everyone would complain..

If you can't enter the game or you didn't find out about the event through any of the current social networks (CotW is on all the networks), that's a shame, you won't get the gift, better luck next year, life isn't fair, it's already free, it doesn't need to be free all the time

wooden root
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But you can buy the holiday vehicles skin packs at any time in the angler for free…

crimson horizon
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I think making them purchasable out of season is reasonable and also makes sense for everyone, EW included.