[WARNING: MASSIVE PERSONAL OPINION AHEAD, IF YOU ARE SENSIBLE OR GET MAD EASILY WITH DIFFERENT OPINIONS, THIS POST IS NOT FOR YOU.]
(Go to these if you want to know about certain topic:
[1] Skins
[2] Mission Quests
[3] Lovestruck crate
[4] Conclusion)
So, we just received a brand new update, with valentines skins and valentines quests, that's cool, right?
Well, kinda.
Well, it's my time to cover up this update and talk about one of the most controversial skin crates ever inside of TDS.
[1] Skins:
Well, the main reason why this update exists is because of Valentines that's soon to come(I need a partner), and with that we always receive Valentines related skins to celebrate this... special moment of the year?
And as always, when it comes to skins, devs are absurdly good at making skins look awesome, they always manage to put effort in every event skin in some way, and I absolutely love it!
One thing that made me fairly skeptical about these new skins is how half of them are for event towers, which I get it, it's just to give more variety to the tower and not have to be using the default skin all the time, but cmon, I think these towers already have enough skins to have a ton of variety.
I mean, sure I love having Short girl with big muffin hammer but doesn't Sledger already have like 6 skins?(not mad tho, goated skin.)
So, the skins are always great, just please give more skins to evergreen towers, we need skins for them. 🥺
(My God, Pursuit, you'll have a skin one day, I promise.)
[2] Mission quests:
I honestly find Mission quests really weird, considering their objectives most of the time are some highly specific stuff that people don't really want to do, but eh whatever.
But even so, making an exclusive mission quest valentines session just for these exclusive skins is really nice, it's a nice new idea that I really enjoy, wonder if we're gonna get more of these in the future(Not good and not bad).
But again, I still think we should have more for evergreen towers, literally half of them are just event towers.
[3] Lovestruck skincrate
The most hyped thing for the whole update, turned out to be one of the most(if not the most) dissapointing surprises of all of TDS history.
People were excited, grinding coins 24/7 to get their sweet hands on a beautiful, wonderful and LOVELY skincrate! And when the update dropped... they saw it was a robux crate.
Great job Devs, you guys nailed it! 💪💪 NEVER COOK AGAI-
My God I've never felt so dissapointed with a crate THIS MUCH as it was with the Lovestruck(and probably some other people put there.)
Well, let's talk about it, shall we?
1- The Idea
So, this crate is meant to be a crate for the lazy/No time to play guys that want to get all the Valentine skins without needing to grind Mission quests and coins 24/7, and for me, that's a really simple but awesome idea from the devs, it's a simple way to get all the skins while the devs get rewarded with the robux they want.
2- What went wrong?
You see, this is a robux crate, a crate that contains exclusive items for those who want to get all the skins, and they should only be reserved to only exclusive stuff that IS meant to be there... definitely there shouldn't be any other implementation that will make this crate a total mix bag- BOOM! Old valentine skins.
I think you can already see the problem with this, but you suddenly mix up the stuff that IS meant to be inside a specific crate with stuff that ISN'T meant to be inside a specifc crate just basically turns out to be a total fruit salad.
"Oh it's robux because the devs need money!"
My guy, can't you see the tons of merchandise and gamepasses we already have? Isn't that enough?
2.2- Skin styles(OMG 2.2 GEOMETRY DASH!?!?!?)
You see, the Valentines skins from this year and the ones from the past years look TOTALLY different, so just suddenly bringing them together inside a crate that costs robux just makes getting a random common skin much less rewarding than getting the skin you actually want.
"Oh but Premium Crates and Deluxe crates do that!"
The difference is that these two are PERMANENT, so you don't have to rely on a specific date that they'll go away + there is some methods of getting them free, unlike this crate.
2.4- The past valentines skins were "free"
Basically yeah, they were always free, they really shouldn't just randomly switch their prices from in-game currency to actual money, that's just absolute craziness.
"Oh but Phillips x TDS skins had the same fate!"
My guy, they were brought back to permanent crates, and even so, there is some ways of getting them for free(basically same reason as premium crates.)
"Oh you should've just gotten those skins on that time period!"
What type of argument is that bro? So you're telling me I'd just randomly have knowledge that TDS existed on a time where I didn't even know what roblox was?(just an example.)
And even so, I probably wouldn't have grinded out for them due to me being a noob or not having enough time for that.
3- Is there a solution for this?
There is, and the solution is very simple.
Bring Lovely crate back, and move the stuff that shouldn't be on Lovestruck crate to there.
Holy that's some 1 BILLION IQ MOVES OVER THERE!
But jokes aside, just bringing put the coin crate back with the past skins would just make the grind and the controversy fall down in a much easier way.
However, the other recent new valentine skins should stay in the robux crate, since you can still get them with Mission quests.
[4] Conclusion:
The update was alright, just the crate that made everyone sad, angry and all of that.
And as I said before in my other posts, the devs are really smart, they're just making seemingly dumb mistakes that shouldn't randomly happen, the idea for a crate with the mission quest skins is good, but mixing up with other skins just doesn't work at all.
Thank you for reading.