With yesterday's announcement of the upcoming August Twitch drops, I gotta ask... Rare, what are you guys doing the other three weeks of every month?? I get you have different design teams for different things, and I imagine the group for low-priority Twitch drops that don't make the company any money is pretty small, indeed. But seriously?
We started out with the rest of the Black Dog/Obsidian/Onyx/Midnight/Ebon set that wasn't released as pre-order fodder or codes from some giveaway or another, and that was nice.
We get a few standalone cosmetics and emotes here and there, a few ship sets (Mutinous Fist, Spartan, Ancestral) and a few clothing sets (Rising Morningstar, Frozen Horizon) and finally the clothing, equipment and ship parts to round out the Gilded Phoenix set to go with the previously released weapons via code giveways (these have also since been used as recent Twitch drops for events).
Then we mostly settle in for full-set recolors of existing outpost sets. We get the full Twilight Hunter set and then almost the full Eastern Winds Sapphire set (we're still missing the EWS Eyepatch, Rare!!). Although not without confusion between the Nightfall Hunter set (which were NOT recolors) being released as the Twilight Hunter clothing orignally before being renamed as a separate set and the actual Twilight Hunter clothing being released afterwards...
Meanwhile, in the main retail game, the original set that all the Eastern Winds recolors are based off of, the Ashen Dragon, gets a second and third group of clothing and vanity items that almost doubles the size of the set. Now the Twitch drops recolor team has twenty new cosmetics to choose from to repaint and drip feed to us. Windfall!
Now things kinda go off the rails. We start into a recolor of a recolor (of a recolor, technically) with the Eastern Winds Ruby set before we even finish with the original EW Sapphire set. We kick out all of the equipment and instrument recolors for the EW Ruby set and then suddenly we pivot to no longer even having Twitch drop groups where all four items are part of the same set like we've been used to all this time.
Now we're getting two or three items from a set in every batch and the others are from an entirely different set or random standalones. The EW Ruby ship set follows, but instead of doing the weapons or the base clothing parts they roll right into doing recolors of the recently-released secondary clothing cosmetics from the Ashen Dragon set. We're still waiting for those to this day! Now the EW Sapphire set has started following in its footsteps with one or two secondary clothing cosmetics mixed in with the EW Ruby ones.
For the last year or so we've gotten a mishmash of bits and pieces from an increasing number of Sea Dog and Sailor recolors; started anew and abandoned every single month.
Rascal Sea Dog - all 13 equipment pieces, and two of the four primary weapons (Pistol and EoR)
Seasoned Sailor - Speaking Trumpet and Compass (which is actually a recolor of the Sea Dog Compass, not the original Sailor one) and the Blunderbuss (which, confusingly, appears to be a new design and not a recolor at all despite looking at least a little like the Sovereign one)
Scarlet Sailor- Hurdy Gurdy
Sage Sea Dog - Tankard, Pocket Watch and Bucket
Stormy Sea Dog - Concertina
Seaweed Sailor - Compass (again, a Sea Dog model recolor and not a Sailor one)
...and now coming up this month, yet another new set started with the Stalwart Sea Dog Tankard.
Can you guys just start one set and freakin' complete it before moving onto the next one?? Please?
