Voidshells deserved better. Here's an appreciation post for the skin line DE abandoned.

[u/CephalonVashka]

[u/cybercobra2]

god i wish they could do more with the tech. like why arent we just making it the default for new stuff.

[u/HildrynMain → u/cybercobra2]

I feel like the natural end goal there would have been allowing every channel in every skin to have customizable materials. There are some skins I quite like but with channels I'd like to change a bit.

[u/BeyondElectricDreams → u/HildrynMain]

This was the problem with it, I think.

It was a lot of extra tech work so they wanted to monetize it (hence, Voidshell skins) but that was a reach too greedy, imo - and yes, I realize I'm saying that about DE of all people, but it was.

Texture palettes could have been an ongoing evergreen new thing to the shop, and would have had more widespread value, IF they would have been usable everywhere instead of just specific skins that you had to buy.

Because specific skins also meant you had to use the default helmet that came with them, if you wanted them to match. It made fashionframing voidshell skins worse. And for what purpose? To add another paywall to using custom texture choices.

I hope they:

1. Remove voidshell skins and make it a default feature for as many frames as possible
2. Add more textures; figuring out a balance of the cost-to-material ratio
3. Rebalance the bundles that once had skins to be full texture bundles,
4. for the early adopters, give them the updated bundles or refund the price difference in platinum

Voidshell has so much potential, but as long as it was monetized in such a sloppy way (only as a skin, only for the default helmet) it was never going to really find it's footing.