First to make the discussion more productive
Bad skins = skins that other players in other regions of the game don’t wear , or rarely wear.
Good/Normal Skins = skins that players wear occasionally while playing the game in the other regions of the game.
Great Skins = the most popular skins in other regions of the game.
Everyone already knows that “good” or “bad” is different for every person.
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So I see a lot of people here think that the marketing team playing it wrong
and they should spam us with skins because it’s a “Win Win”
I will tell you why I think this is wrong!
the skins released with the Platinum pack
and the skins that released with the game release
is to let the players taste what Lost are have to offer.
but even if you don't believe that , here I am talking about
the skins which is releasing right now(every skin after the game release)
after they established the player base
- First:
I think we can all agree that there is a limited amount of skins in the game.
there is only so many ways for how to make a unique skin, and for amazon it’s a long way to create unique skins like the Japanese server , in their point of view , they want to use all the Korean skins first before they even think about creating a new skin for us (And let’s be honest , we too the players don’t want amazon skin design , just look at all the censoring and you can imagine how amazon’s skins would look like)
- Second:
bad skins exist.
as almost all the skins from the Korean version has been put to test in the game market.
if you travel in the other servers , or you see the data from the player base from the other versions , you will find that some skins is abandoned by the players , and so rarely used.
so they have to find a way to make the players buy it, or else it would be a waste.
also skins that for small targeted group of player, things like (this skin look bad on most of the classes , but looks good on one or 2 classes)
- Third:
great skins exist,
so again using the player’s data in other servers they can know what is the most used skins , and what the active players wear all the time.
so those skins have very high value before they are used in the game.
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Result:
To clear things up , by using the players data in the Korean/Russian/Japanese version of the game you can easily pull up a statistic on what the most used skins(great skins), skins that used but not as much(Normal skins), and what skins that rarely used(bad skins).
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- so thinking about that , we can divide the skins to minimum of 3 categories.
1. bad skins. (or skins for a small targeted players, or skins that rarely used in other servers)
2. good and acceptable skins.
3. great skins.
(this is just over simplification, you can divide it to much more , however just to explain my point of view)
- so thinking about that , we can divide the skins to minimum of 3 categories.
- bad skins. (or skins for a small targeted players, or skins that rarely used in other servers)
regardless if you as the player think the skins good or bad , they are bad for marketing
so if you are the marketing team
how would you make money out of the bad skins ?
all you need to do s release it first in the game!
because no matter how much unused the skins in the other servers, players here doesn’t have too many skins.
- players who like the skins will buy it.
- players who think the skins are acceptable or normal will buy the skins.
- players who hate the skins will buy it if you give them enough time without other skins, 1 or 2 month is enough for that to happen, where it’s guaranteed that players will have gold more than the skin price in the market , so someone would buy the skin from the cashshop and put it in the market hoping that by time someone will buy it for some extra gold instead from selling crystals for gold directly.
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good and acceptable skins.
these skins can be used any time , but not so much
as you have to make sure players buy the bad skins first
also you can add one skin from time to time, even the worst skin in this category will make the player base happy, as all what they have known is baD SkiNS -
great skins.
those skins are your savior! (in the marketing team’s POV)
You have the data!!!
those skins are the most used skins ever!
you have to not let them go that easily!!!
so use examples:
- a lot of people left the game
- you messed up the game a lot
- showing the players that you care about them (lol they would fall for it and defend us to death by using that skin as an example for how much skins we put in the game)
Conclusion: (TL;DR)
If you are the marketing team what would you do? (share your opinion!)
after that you already established the player base
so first , try to push the worst skins in the game first!
NEVER, EVER, EVER, give options to the players by putting more skins too fast even if they were bad! , this will make the player decide what he want and will drop the sells for the bad skins.
put 1 normal skin every 3 to 4 months so players wont feel that all what you care is the money (even if the players already know that , give them false hope that you care about them!)
never let go of the most wanted skins , the skins that most the players would want, use them only for emergency.
what would stop you? if people stop buying the skins at all , this will never happen , but if it did , you can always add 1 Normal skin as a Filler.
Outside of the skin topic , I do think they think this way about event’s classes etc
Just imagine how many players will return to the game when they drop the Artist class!
I guarantee you the game would turn into back to school day. everyone would create that class , people who likes it , people who want it as a support, people who like the idea of trolling parties who want support and they are playing on DPS build , and people who like to meme
same goes for events, and anything the player wants.
What should we “the players” do?
this will never happen , but stop buying skins!
point out that the skins we are getting are bad or for small targeted players all the time!
I don’t know what we can do more, accept the situation?
Every time we ask for good looking skins we get
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Anyway
Share your Opinion!
If you are the Marketing team Manager, What would you do?
Note: Sorry for all the misspells and grammar mistakes.
mE EnGlISh baD 
(Also my “i” button isn’t typing most of the time , time to clean my keyboard I guess.)
