Re-allow players to disable item skins#36581

Or allow players to manually disable the skins they don’t want to see.

the people who spent hundreds of dollars on camo skins arent gonna like this

“weeee get good broke boy ! weeee not my problem if you can’t afford $300 worth of camo skins to kill other people in a videogame !!!”

I have both whiteout and forest set (mainly for the drip not for p2w) and I gotta agree, it’s just retarded getting silenced by someone you can hardly see.

It’s $mposs$ble

@Janac tbf it wouldn’t be as bad with P2W if there was default “free” (reminder that the game is paywalled) counterparts but from a gameplay perspective I think it shouldn’t be in the game at all, it’s just too broken and even worse if everyone has access to it

To much money involved with it, pure greed is the reason it was removed the first place I don’t see them changing it now. All about the $$$

I agree that this is obviously a money driven decision by facepunch. But to be the devils advocate for the moment;

Rust is a game that is constantly updating and improving (their intention…maybe not always seen as such from the player base, but their intention. No one intends for their product to be worse.) To make these improvements and keep their employees employed and keep the talent that has the best chance of making the best quality improvements possible, that requires additional funding.

For facepunch, the majority of the funding comes from that source and not so much the sale of the game itself. So, they need to keep the value of the skins so that people see a reason to buy them. And yes that means even appealing to segment of the market that doesn’t just buy one of a skin, but mutiple for the purposes of prospecting and after market value.

I understand and empathize with the frustration laid out in this post already. It sucks that these were accepted into the game in the first place when these are meant to be purely cosmetic. But, if we want continued updates and facepunch to not just call all future development quits and move onto something else, letting the game to fade away, then we may need to just accept some necessary evils.

A counter to this would be to just campaigning for a specific limitation on future skins being accepted. Like the glowing gun sights. Those still exist out there, but now there are rules that no future gun skin will be accepted with a glowing site. In this instance, no more camouflage skins will be accepted.

I know this isn’t what you’re looking for in this post, but I don’t think facepunch will be budging on this one. So, I would suggest trying to look into suggesting ideas that may work as a compromise that doesn’t effect their business plan.

Yeah that’s why I said “Or allow players to manually disable the skins they don’t want to see.”

Some skins are legit skins and not OP stuff. Though they also make a lot of money from “dlcs”, which doesn’t add skins but completely new items (from the game’s perspective).

Also, quick fun fact : they make millions of dollars but give most of it to investors. I don’t think allowing players to disable OP/P2W skins will put a huge hole in their sales since those P2W skins are already released and most of the money goes to steam and players themselves

this wouldnt be a problem if facepunch didnt release p2w skins. But nevertheless