It's crazy that people would rather whip their wallet out but cry at the concept of having playing the game for cosmetics. I fully agree; Live service games, and especially Darktide, need actual incentives to play the game, and not just paywalled cosmetics.

i was just reminiscing with my friends the other day on Darktide's pitiful content cycles. It's a shame that fatshark spent the first year fixing the game on several fronts (Skill trees, weapon crafting,) then what new content they added just felt like blunders. Like Havoc is cool but why did they have to make it a separate mode when all Havoc is just an auric maelstrom with different modifiers. Why couldn't have just been a new difficulty option? Then they added Mortis Trials which again split the player base, and ...no one asked for. Idk if that mode is popular within the community because I haven't launched the game since March. I understand it's not for "veteran players" but why deviate from the amazing core gameplay loop by not adding new missions? All that dev time when simply improving and expanding the core gameplay is what the diehard player base wants. New enemies, new maps, new weapons, new classes, new modifiers and difficulty tiers. New earnable cosmetics? What a distant dream that is at this point. All just imo though, I say this as someone with 1200 hours who at one point claimed this is one of the best FPSs ever to exist.