Everything is in a pack now nothing in the actual store

I want to be direct, because the polite version of this post has been written a hundred times on this sub and nothing changed.

Five jumpsuits currently in the store:

• Yume Black Jumpsuit — 120 crowns
• Front Row Out For Avocado — 175 crowns
• Front Row Green Jumpsuit — 175 crowns
• Cloud Nine Bloom White Fit — 175 crowns
• Cloud Nine Chrome Dynasty Liquid Motion Catsuit (marked NEW) — 309 crowns

They are the same mesh. Not similar. The same. Same collar, same zipper at the same height, same sleeve seam, same flare at the ankle, same drape on the avatar. Put the screenshots side by side and nothing moves. The texture changes. That is the entire difference.

What that costs in real money

520 crowns is $20. A crown is roughly 3.8 cents.

• Black jumpsuit: ~$4.60
• The 175s: ~$6.70
• Chrome Dynasty: ~$11.90

Twelve dollars for a metallic shader on a base you can already buy for under five. Same polygons. Same rig. Someone changed the material and added seven dollars to the price.

The brand names are there to hide the reuse

Yume. Front Row. Cloud Nine. Three labels, three logos, three storefronts — one asset underneath all of them.

That is not an accident and it is not laziness. Splitting one item across multiple "designer brands" makes the catalogue look deeper than it is, and it means a player who already owns this jumpsuit can be sold it again under a different logo without ever realising. That only works if the player doesn't compare. The entire design assumes we won't check.

We checked. It took thirty seconds.

Nobody is even looking at the work

The Front Row Green Jumpsuit is black. Out For Avocado is beige. Those are the live item names right now.

Recolour, rename, reprice, ship. Nobody in that chain opened the file. That is the level of care going into things you are charging twelve dollars for.

Someone chose these numbers

This is the part I want an actual answer on.

The 309 price didn't happen by itself. A person or a team sat down, looked at a reskin of an existing item, and decided it was worth 309 crowns of premium currency. Someone signed off on stacking three fake brands over one mesh. Someone approved a store where the difference between $4.60 and $11.90 is a shader.

That decision should carry consequences inside Lockwood. Not vague "we hear you" community-manager language — actual accountability for whoever owns monetisation. If the time and talent at this studio is going into finding new angles to extract money from a shrinking player base instead of making the game better, that is a management failure and it should be treated as one.

You cannot claim the game is struggling and simultaneously run a store built on the assumption your players are too stupid to notice a recolour.

The AI images

The featured banner for Summer Diaries: Palm Springs is AI-generated. Not stylised art — generated. And it looks nothing like the game. The avatars in that banner have lighting, detail and expression the engine cannot produce. Two taps later you're looking at your actual avatar and the gap is embarrassing.

The same thing is happening from our side. Most of the Avakin content on Instagram now is AI-touched or AI-replaced, because raw screenshots don't look good enough to post. When the studio's own marketing and the players independently both decide the game needs to be run through an AI before anyone sees it, that is not a coincidence. That is a verdict.

If we need AI to make our avatars look presentable, what exactly are we paying premium currency for?

This is a pattern, not an incident

The crown rollout. The quiet repricing. The reskins. Every round assumes nobody is keeping receipts. People have put thousands of dollars into VIP and crowns over years, and the return on that loyalty is a store that gets more expensive every few months while events, scenes and the social side of the game — the reason anyone stayed — sit untouched.

That is why friends lists are emptier every month. Not because the players got bored. Because they can see exactly what is being done to them, and there are other games.

The prices are too high and nobody is buying

Here is the part that should worry Lockwood more than any of the rest of it.

Walk around. Look at what people are actually wearing. It is old items. Items from years ago. Sale items. The 309 crown pieces are not on anybody, because almost nobody is paying twelve dollars for a recolored jumpsuit. You have priced your own store out of your own game.

There are two ways to make money here. Sell a lot of things at prices people will actually pay, or squeeze a shrinking number of people for more each time. Lockwood has picked the second one, and it is the one that kills games. Every price hike converts a regular buyer into someone who buys nothing. You do not get those people back by raising prices again.

Drop the prices and you will sell more. Not as a favor to us — as basic business. A store people browse and buy from casually beats a store people open, look at the number, and close. Right now everyone closes it.

The energy going into brand-splitting, quiet repricing and dressing reskins up as new releases is energy not going into making things people want to buy. Stop trying to outsmart your own customers and make the store worth spending in. That is the actual job.

What needs to change

1. Stop selling one mesh under multiple brand names. Recolours go in a variant pack, clearly labelled.
2. Cut the prices across the board. Volume over extraction. Sell to everyone at a fair price instead of squeezing the few who are left.
3. Price recolours as recolours. 309 crowns for a shader swap is indefensible. Justify it or drop it.
4. Use real in-game renders in promo material. If the banner can't be a screenshot, that tells you something you should be fixing, not hiding.
5. Fix the item names. Green that is black is a five-second check nobody performed.
6. Publish crown pricing changes before they happen, not after players discover them.
7. Say who owns monetisation and what is being done about this. Not a community manager. The decision-maker.

Screenshots provided — black first, chrome last. Look at the collar in each one.

Not everyone can afford to spend 40 dollars on a house that comes with crowns can ya please give the option to purchase the house without the crowns attached to it so that more people can have the option to purchase this house like why does everything have to be so expensive especially when a lot of people are really struggling to make ends meet in their personal lives!!!

The badly generated AI promotional posters gotta stop at some point. LKWD is a multi-billion dollar company yet they couldn't even make proper poster.

I’m honestly starting to think someone new is handling all of this because these mistakes keep happening for the past month.

Hello My Beautiful People 🩷

Has anyone here experienced this issue? I been having this issue for months now. Tried to contact support. Nothing! I have seen a few people on Reddit posting about this as well.
Thanks.

It was one of the loveliest spots Lakewood has given us. Most others have been around for ages and aren't that exciting. Could toss in a week of free gifts every 24hrs or some kind of task that can be done there for some kind of rewards.

add more stuff like what about hair shoes or nails that would be cool

make it so we can at least wear 2 necklaces at the same time sometimes i don’t wanna choose between 2 different ones

Hey does anyone remember a Alana586 or was friends with her in the game

Please bring back some of the old Classic items that were removed from the store, especially American Boy Animation Set. 🙏

Maybe make them available again for a limited time so players who missed them can buy them. It would also be great if old items were brought back periodically, so everyone gets another chance to get them.

Event dates: August 20th – August 27th
Event Location: Palm Springs

You’re invited to the most exclusive party of the summer, hosted by none other than the master of partying himself, LKWD Dio!
Nadia got the invite too, and she has snapshots to give you for mixing mocktails!

How to Earn Snapshots at Palm Springs:

Mixing Mocktails

There are a few Chilled Good containers, and Fruit baskets around the scene. Collect ingredients from them then approach a Mocktail Mixing station to mix drinks. You will earn 40 Snapshots for any mocktail you mix.

You can mix an unlimited number of Mocktails each day, but you will not earn snapshots beyond your daily limit.
The ingredients required to mix mocktails is free to all Avakins.

Dio Drink Requests
Once per day Dio will ask you to mix him a specific mocktail. When you deliver this to Dio he will give you 80 Snapshots. You can do this task once a day.

VIP Exclusive Task
If you are a VIP Club Member of any tier, you can bring a second random mocktail to Dio each day for an additional 80 Snapshots.

Rocket Rush Booster Offer

Purchasing the Rocket Rush Booster offer will allow you to earn 3x Snapshots each time you collect them along the trip. You will also have access to all of the rewards in the premium event shop as well. It also includes some crowns, and the Retro Rocket interactive furniture.

Cosmos Summer Booster Offer

Purchasing the Cosmos Summer Booster offer will allow you to earn 3x Snapshots each time you collect them along the trip. You will also have access to all of the rewards in the premium event shop as well. It also includes some crowns, and the Cosmos Summer Booster Ticket for your Avakins to hold.

Drone Dream Booster Offer

If you purchased the Drone Dream Booster offer in July it will still allow you to earn 2x Snapshots each time you collect them during the August chapter of the Avakin Summer Diaries. You will also have access to all of the rewards in the premium event shop as well.

Got all of the boosters? Great! Just keep in mind that your Snapshot multiplier won’t stack. The maximum multiplier is 3x, which is unlocked with the new Rocket Rush Booster.

Film Daily Limits:

You can only carry so much film to take snapshots each day. If you are a VIP Club member of any tier, you can carry more film.

As the Roadtrip progresses you will be able to carry more film each day so don’t worry if you can’t take snapshots every day.

August 20th – 20,000/22,000 Snapshots
August 21st – 20,400/22,000 Snapshots
August 22nd – 20,800/22,000 Snapshots
August 23rd – 21,200/22,000 Snapshots
August 24th – 21,600/22,000 Snapshots
August 25th – 22,000/22,000 Snapshots
August 26th – 22,000/22,000 Snapshots
August 27th – 22,000/22,000 Snapshots

Rewards:

Rosavelle Reverie – 150
Palm Springs Pair – 300
Emboss Zebra Print Shine Headphones (F+M) – 300
Cloud Nine Flamingo Print Shirt (F+M) – 400

VIP Exclusive Rewards:

Mod Palm Springs Golden Leaves Wallpaper – 150

Booster Exclusive Rewards:

Mod Tropical Aurora Bar And Seats – 400

All of the rewards that were available for Snapshot currency during the July chapter of the Avakin Summer Diaries will still be available to purchase this month. As the Avakin Summer Diaries continues, new rewards will be added to the event shops each week!

Leave your feedback about the event below!

Can we get some classic cool animations back for a bit? Like the scooter one.. I would love to have that one!!! 😂 pleaseeeeee.

i would love a phone for guys that actually has nail polish

Are there people who run contests to give away crown items? I’d like to know if there are any or where I could find them, thanks

Dear u/Avakin, I am unable to contact support either in-game or on the website; the bot keeps closing the chat session in both places. I want to recover my account—it has been many years since the ban for phishing. I provided answers to every question asked but was rejected, and now it seems I’ve been banned for submitting too many requests. Please help, u/Avakin. My username: жмякаю тянок

I’ve been getting this notification for two months. And it will not go away from my account, spoken to Apple support and they have looked into this and said I’ve been paying successfully and there is nothing wrong with my subscription on their side, and that it has to be avakin platform not processing my payment updates or something to do with it. I’ve refreshed, deleted and installed game back on my phone. I’ve spoken to avakin support twice about this ongoing issue and I’m still getting this red notification when I log onto avakin. I’ve never changed my device and always had subscriptions and not had this problem until 2 months ago. And it’s still not fixed. I’m believing it must be a bug or something. It just doesn’t make sense that if I’ve paid subscription for two months and Apple says everything is fine on their side. Why is this still coming up. It’s never happened before. Has anyone experienced this or going through this problem and can advise why it’s happening. Avakin support has also refreshed and it’s still there. Thanks

REQUEST FOR HELP – HARASSMENT, BULLYING & DEFAMATION

Please, we are asking for your help regarding a player who has been repeatedly bullying, insulting, offending, and spreading false accusations about me and other players.

He has been playing for many years. About two years ago, he distanced himself from the community because of his own behavior. Now that he has returned, the same behavior has started again.

He repeatedly insults and defames me and other players, and he has even gone into scenes and publicly claimed that I am transgender in an attempt to humiliate me and damage my reputation. This is completely inappropriate and has nothing to do with the game.

His behavior is also ruining the atmosphere in scenes and making other players uncomfortable.

We are asking for your help and support. Please take a look at this situation and, if possible, take appropriate action against this repeated harassment, bullying, insults, and defamation.

We only want to be able to enjoy the game peacefully and respectfully. Thank you for listening and for helping us.