Build your own skin chest?

[Juanasdf]

Before you start reading: I do know you can weave skins individually, that you can get spools from Klei points and skins from daily and weekly drops; and on top of this that you can buy certain bundles which give more spools than others to amass them (which is what I usually do) but it takes time to unravel all of those items, and I would definitely be more inclined towards buying more skins if I could choose which ones I'd like to get.

So I was looking at the shop and saw many item skins that I like, but to get them i would have to pay for the entire bundle. Are there any plans (or has this ever been discussed) to create customizable skin bundles? Would they be profitable? I have no idea, but here's my reasoning.

The store could offer different tiers of custom bundles, which offer a specific number of skins or skin sets. In essence, I could buy the first tier of customizable bundles and choose any character skin set + any elegant / 2 spiffy item skins. For example: any Victorian skin set from any character+ a Forge S1 item.

The second tier could allow you to pick 2 skin sets + 2 items. And so on... Or they could even let you pick ONLY character's skins sets, or ONLY items.

Each tier would cost more depending on how many skins you'd like to get, and they would cost more than buying the entire bundle. For example: The WX deluxe wardrobe bundle with 5 skins sets costs $10.99, but a custom bundle with 5 skins could cost 15-ish or so... I'm sure klei can check what price would give them more revenue, I have no idea and I won't pretend I know about making a game's microtransactions profitable. What I do know is that I'd pay more to get 5 skins that I actually like instead of less for only 2 or 3 skins that I'd use + some spare spools.

This is kind of implemented with characters, as you can get the skins individually, but there isn't a way to buy the items, and you don't get any benefit from buying them this way. With custom bundles however, you could get a small discount for buying a bigger bundle (Instead of buying 1 skin, why not 2 + an item with an X% discount?)

The starter packs (which offer skins from different skinlines + a few items) and the "X's deluxe wardrobes" (which include all of the reworked character's skins) are a great way to add diversity, but you still don't get too much variety:

Starter packs are great for newcomers, but the problem with them is that, even though you get the new item skins, you may get a repeated skin. For example: I got the 2019 starter pack, but I already had some of those skins.

And the deluxe wardrobes are great for people who always wanted to have the tradeable skins but wouldn't want to pay the steam market price's. But again, they don't solve this problem of getting more varied skins, as you only get skins for 1 character. (In a custom bundle you could get 1 skin per character, all from different skinlines, Example: GoH WX-78 + Survivor Wendy + Triumphant Willow and perhaps a few items)

TLDR and in case it wasn't clear, what the bundles would allow you to buy is:
-Any ITEM skins + character's skin sets (As I stated: Any Victorian skin set from x character + a Forge S1 item) 

-Multiple ITEMS skins from different sets (IE a Forge S1 item + a Hallowed Night item skin)

-Multiple characters skin sets from different sets (GoH WX-78 + Survivor Wendy + Triumphant Willow)

All of these chosen by the player AND with increasing costs (and discounts) the bigger the bundle is.

What the custom bundles would NOT allow you to do is:
-Mix and match character skin sets (You can't buy a Wickerbottom set with a Victorian head + a forge outfit)

-Buy a character's head with any other character's outfit. (Any Wickerbottom head + any of Woodie's outfits)

Anyways, I just wanted to know if this was ever discussed, what is your opinion on it, and all that... If you'll excuse me I have to go back to unravelling forge repeated skins from back when the bundle was on sale 

[00petar00]

You can just use a mod to unravel all duplicates.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1557935632

[Juanasdf]

Just now, 00petar00 said:

You can just use a mod to unravel all duplicates.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1557935632

That is wonderful, thank you. Still a custom skin bundle would net you more spool value in items than what you'd get from unravelling an entire chest of skins. Since unraveling only returns a third of the cost.

[Cheggf]

If you could buy spools at a rate of 1,000 per $1 that would be comparable to the community market and their better bundle deals, definitely worth using just because it's more convenient. Then Klei gets (I believe) 70% instead of (I believe) 5 or 10%, too.

It would in effect be pretty similar to your build a bundle suggestion but much easier to implement and understand.

[Juanasdf]

1 hour ago, Cheggf said:

If you could buy spools at a rate of 1,000 per $1 that would be comparable to the community market and their better bundle deals, definitely worth using just because it's more convenient. Then Klei gets (I believe) 70% instead of (I believe) 5 or 10%, too.

It would in effect be pretty similar to your build a bundle suggestion but much easier to implement and understand.

You know, that is way simpler than my idea and I like it. I didn't think of it because they have different currencies per platform and maybe it could create problems with pricing now that there is cross-platform inventory sharing.

[Spep]

Initially thought this one was about making chests out of characters skin but i guess this is neat too.

[Juanasdf]

9 hours ago, Spep said:

Initially thought this one was about making chests out of characters skin but i guess this is neat too.

Initially the title was build your own skin bundles, but the store says chests and I didn't want them to be confused with bundle wraps lol

[Falkenpelz]

On 5/8/2022 at 8:10 AM, Spep said:

Initially thought this one was about making chests out of characters skin but i guess this is neat too.

I was gonna say the same lol