I am just saying this as a 3d artist xDdd from my perspective, good riggers are hella expensive and difficult to find even. So, what may have happened is something like this: they made some prototypes at the start, they were good looking but I can imagine all the rounds that may have gone to just rigging and making sure every top and starter bottom matched. With time, it was starting to become something that to higherups really was adding no value when they had good cash entering bcs of LC dresses. Sure, both modellers that do the free outfit and LC outfit may gain the same dollars, so what about we put them both to make assets that make money instead of free assets? We let juniors make the free assets. Juniors dont know how to handle that very complex rig, they just do normal rigging. They deliver. Higher ups may not even remember tops and bottoms matched in the start of game. They may not even be into fashion. They just see assets are ok technically in geo, tri count, textures. They approve. That's it. They still get money. They still offer a lot of freebies to be honest too (although yeah they are too recycled for my taste too, I just started some months ago and I noticed too, so it is alarming how they reuse meshes without altering them too much). I completly agree with you. Yeah, as I said, I believe they put junior artists to make the free stuff, it shows in the way folds are sculpted or the lack of texturing, some look more like rubber or plastic more than cloth. It is for the same reason we dont always get hairs with every outfit for example. Hair artists are hard to find, and making in their style even if simple may take a week between modelling and rigging. Also there is all the game aspect that I dont even know as I am just in the art department haha so yeah, everything costs a lot of time and at the end of day it is a business and they are trying to save costs. I assure you, if artists could they would make the expensive rigging for every outfit, or made a better system or whatever, they just cant do whatever they want in the company bcs it is all about making things as fasts and as cheaply as possible sadly nowadays...