#Questing for skins over giveaways

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golden torrent
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I know that giveaways are a great thing for streamers and stuff but having skins that are only obtainable via giveaways that only happen once or twice a month just doesn't seem that fair in my opinion, mainly because someone could have faster fingers than someone else and also just because there's a VERY slim chance of actually getting a skin/prize. I know questing is coming at some point in the game but I feel like it should be put into the game very soon as it would give people things to do while waiting for further updates and it would make things like skin pearls more obtainable for every player. I know it's not recommended to buy skin codes from others but if someone really wants a skin they might go the extra mile to get it and the whole reason people are buying these skin codes is because most skins that have cool aspects about them were available for a limited time and either people just missed out or didn't have the money at the time to actually buy the skin.

trail furnace
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I agree that the CC skin and pearls obtained by patreons should be their own seperate thing but it would be nice if those of us who can't afford those things or who aren't available to watch those giveaway streams, could have a way to get our own pearl. Doesn't have to be as fancy, but just something that allows us to use that spot in our inventory if you will. Maybe a pearl once you've achieved elder? Or like the OG poster said, a quest pearl. Though I do realize skin customization is coming at some point too. But as of now, my pearl spot will probably always be empty and unutilized.

azure dagger
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… none of you have played P2W games and it shows.

First thought aside, the skin giveaways feel pretty natural and the whole skin thing is fairly normal for games nowadays where everything gets monetised except the bare bones game. I don’t agree or disagree with this thread, but here’s something I’d like to suggest for obtainable skin pearls for F2P(sort of, this game still needs to be payed for) players

Being able to save your current skin as a skin pearl/skin you can equip on spawn in. Since the skin crafting system has become far more complex. Being able to save your skin would be a massive quality of life thing. People don’t want to be breeding for hours with clan mates to get that perfect skin, only to lose it in PvP and have to grind for it again because everyone wanted different skins and your clan isn’t full of alts. Being able to save the current skin you have as a pearl or spawn in skin would be a drastic improvement. Only one skin would be saveable at a time, so people would only have one skin save slot to keep skins relatively rare and harder to get. That way clans only have to worry about upstatting (which is still stupidly hard but I won’t talk about it in this thread) instead of also caring about skins.

It would just be a QoL thing and also give F2P players the option to have a skin. You can still give out unique skins like the CC skin and stuff, but let players have at least this. Heck, you can let people buy more slots if you’re desperate for monetization, but don’t make players pay for any slot at all. The F2P community is important for the life of any game, and you don’t want to make a game that’s hostile to them, or your new player base will shrink dramatically.

peak tusk
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I agree that skin giveaways and exclusive skins are a normal thing, but I don't think that waiting some form of reward for playing is a sign of "not playing P2W games" I think those who believe that owning a dlc dragon isn't p2w is the ones who never played p2w games, but that's not important now
Yes, f2p games often monetize visuals, BUT those games what monetize ALL their visuals are always failing, even big companies like Pearl Abyss learned this, at first everything costume was put behind their cash shop for a lot of money, and people didn't like it, yes, the whales bought them, but regulars didn't, so they started to give away those costumes as event rewards and keep making "buy one get 2" kinda deals and the playerbase stabilized again.
So I think, and this isn't the first time I suggest this, that ingame obtainable skins should be on par in quality to exclusives. They don't need to be the same, they just need to be similar in quality. You can have the current simple skins As basic ones you have access to right away, but there should be a free Way to access better ones (besides the Worms, Worm skins should be extra special) I have high hopes for the future breeding patterns, I hope they won't be As rare As gold was...

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