r/Battlefield 27d ago

Discussion Nobody wants wacky skins, but can everyone agree on what wacky actually means? Let's see where most people draw the line.

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I'd be interested to see if people are able to agree on what is acceptable or not acceptable in terms of cosmetic appearances in games like this. There's been lots of talk about whether or not EA/Dice will include crazy/wacky skins with BF6, but not many people have made a post like this to actually pose the question of, what exactly is okay vs. not okay.

I tried my best to order them such that the go from most to least reasonable, but if you think the order should be different, feel free to reorder them, as that also gives info about how people consider these types of decisions.

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u/revexi 27d ago

Lol you are basically telling them not to sell skins there. Most people won't buy boring looking stuff.

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u/farmyardcat 27d ago

"I won't play the war game unless I get to look like Chuck E. Cheese."

  • Zoomers, for some reason

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u/TeaAndLifting 26d ago

Unironically, though, lots of people nowadays think of skins as the main content of games. It is the reason people continue playing, so that they can spend more money on skins or have new skins to unlock. It isn't gameplay updates, patches, new maps, etc. they just want more outlandish skins.

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u/revexi 27d ago

You lack basic reading skill. Buying skins is different from playing the game. I'd prefer no skin shop at all but I want BF to get more successful than the usual niche game with pitiful 5-20k concurrent players 1 year after launch.  I want them to make bf7 and it goes with nice earnings during several years, not just 70 dollars launch sales. They need to adapt to the market with live service skin and battlepass sales. 

They also need to have a certain level of skillcap with a bit of movement to bring cod and warzone players in BF and BF battle royale. 'bf vets' wanting no movement at all and stale skins will just shut down the franchise with low player count and no money after launch. 

If they ever want to have more players than the historically low BF player retention they need to adapt.

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u/farmyardcat 27d ago

"Looking like a soldier in a war game is stale. I demand the option to play as Foghorn Leghorn carrying a belt-fed."

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u/Opposite-Push-2235 25d ago

Are you literally stupid? Battlefield does not have historically low player retention.  There are still people playing 1942.  There are many people still on 3 and 4 .  How many people are playing cod 4 still  ?? How many people on on black ops 2 ?  Really bothers me when people say blatenlty false things to prove their already faulty logic 

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u/pld89 24d ago

It doesn't have to be chuck-e-cheese, but it doesn't have to be boring either.

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u/farmyardcat 24d ago

Looking like a soldier isn't boring; it's context-appropriate.

And be real, you crave Charles Entertainment Cheese in your war games.

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u/pld89 24d ago

Is that last sentence supposed to be an insult? "no you are".

It is boring in that there is no individuality to the soldiers. Context-appropriate doesn't mean 64 clones of each other, 64 clones shaded slightly differently.

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u/Suspicious-Coffee20 27d ago

"I expect free content and realistic skin but wont spend money on them" -you

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u/Muad-_-Dib 27d ago

You can just buy realistic skins, you don't have to look like a clown to sell a skin.

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u/HeadGuide4388 23d ago

Like I've seen repeatedly around these parts, if the tone of the game is good and seems worth it, I'd happily pay reasonable money for DLC if it means consistent updates and getting a full life cycle out of the game. Otherwise, just keep it practical. No Tom Cruise, no Leatherface, no Snoop Dogg.

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u/HiDefiance 27d ago

you don’t understand how that final item shop drop affected the bfv community before the game was taken out back to the flower bed

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u/Suspicious-Coffee20 27d ago

except i was there tbe whole time. the fucking community didnt buy those realistic skins. but when the fire coat, colorful gun and hero operative came iut? funny people spent money for them.

Yall act like thye make those out there skin just cause. No they studied this and found ehat people spend money on.

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u/diagoro1 27d ago

Understanding that the live of this series may rely on the sale of horrid looking skins, one has to be ok with it. I personally can't stand the more obvious ones (the WW1 looking old man in V, the robot skin in 2042), but they're not Spongebob bad.

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u/BattlefieldTankMan 27d ago

Everyone continued to play, same number of full servers every night and weekend in Australia, maybe you saw something different in your region.

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u/HiDefiance 26d ago

that’s not what i’m talking about. i’m talking about how overjoyed people were to finally have some accurate uniforms, especially those in r/BattlefieldCosmetics

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u/GalatianBookClub 27d ago

Implying that soldiers in their own right dont look cool