Drop Communication

[ciswhiteheterosexualmalenumber2]

Despite this game already having 6 twitch drop campaigns, I can not be the only one who noticed how disgustingly terrible they have been communicated to the player. The fire and earth drops were fine, having both in game advertising and advertising via steam, but the others have all be done dirty,

Slamdunk ranno was advertised via steam as only being obtainable via attending coinbox, despite it having 2 other active campaigns that only required 1 hour of twitch. Depending on the way you got the skin, you would receive an exclusive 5th alt, one for coinbox, one for mogul, one for heatwave, and i believe another that I either didn't hear about or has yet to be obtainable, however, doing it in anyway would still get you the skin and the blue, green, and red alts that accompany it. To my knowledge ONLY the coinbox alt was advertised, leading to many players completely missing out on this skin because they didn't know of alternative means.

And the air and water twitch drops simply didn't get advertising on steam making them incredibly easy to miss. I myself had a very busy week while the air drops were active, and didn't have time to open the game. If it was in steam, i would have noticed it, and would have put twitch on in the background. Like the fire and earth drops they at the very least were on twitter, but players shouldn't be expected to follow a game on external sites just to not miss out on events. We are playing the game on steam, so therefore tell us stuff on steam.

I just don't get it, they were doing so well with the first 2 but completely dropped the ball. I bet many players right now don't know that the mogul moves slamdunk ranno twitch drop is going on right now, and ends tomorrow, or that the water drops are going on, due to this poor communication.

[Plum]

The slamdunk ranno palletes are exclusive, not the actual skin.

I only notice the drops because I tune in for tournaments most of the time. Otherwise Id have missed them all, I didnt see them anywhere else. :(

[ZooL]

they already confirmed, that the elemental based twitch drops are coming back, but we don't know in what form.
I kinda agree about the ranno skin variants, but originally they were meant as exclusive skins for local scene events, so having them as twicht drops seems like a last minute change. also them being a bit more exclusive and only people who actively watch tournaments getting them is okish in that context.

[ciswhiteheterosexualmalenumber2]

bump

[ZooL]

no need to bump. you said your piece. if you want visibility by the devs this is not the right place. post it on the feedback board.

[Genolla]

Personally I think the devs are heavily relying on a ton of FOMO. Just like those Retro skins from the beta or whatever (I didn't even know a beta existed, ♥♥♥♥ me I guess). The lack of advertisement of the Twitch stuff feels deliberate at this point. I missed out on the Fire ones (week one) and purple is my favourite colour so it's quite irritating to be missing these colour palettes for 4 of the 10 characters.

[Etalus]

We'll make sure to do a better job of having stuff in game, not just on social media. That's where all of these have been posted otherwise. Good news though - none of these were a one time thing, they will all be back in other ways either on twitch again or in the coin shop for people to grab.

[ciswhiteheterosexualmalenumber2]

Originally posted by Etalus:

We'll make sure to do a better job of having stuff in game, not just on social media. That's where all of these have been posted otherwise. Good news though - none of these were a one time thing, they will all be back in other ways either on twitch again or in the coin shop for people to grab.

Thank you! I am very glad to hear this.

[Calik0]

Originally posted by Etalus:

We'll make sure to do a better job of having stuff in game, not just on social media. That's where all of these have been posted otherwise. Good news though - none of these were a one time thing, they will all be back in other ways either on twitch again or in the coin shop for people to grab.

Great answer by the dev. There is definitely room for improvement here. I was counting on the main menu screen to be up-to-date and reliable regarding which twitch drops are currently active. When I logged in, my main menu in game was displaying Earth drops even though the Air campaign had begun and finished already, so I missed out on Air drops this time around. I hope they cycle everything in it's exact form again instead of doing variants yet because of this, they indeed dropped the ball on Slam Dunk Ranno (pun intended).