Summary
MultiVersushas finally added the long-awaited Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, and Harleen Quinzel skins, but fans aren’t happy with their limited-time “Elusive” status.
As what must be one of the most datamined games of all time, MultiVersus players have known for a while about most of the skins and characters coming to the store.While there have been some surprises like Jason and the Banana Guard, for the most part, it’s been awaiting game to see when things like Marceline and Raven join the game.
While the characters are, of course, the big-ticket items when it comes to MultiVersus,there are also a number of skins that fans have been waiting around for for a long time. Three big examples of this are the Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, and Harleen Quinzel outfits for Batman, Superman, and Harley Quinn respectively.
MultiVerus Players Aren’t Happy With Elusive Skins
Well, that wait is finally over thanks to MultiVersus' Halloween event, which finally brought all three costumes to the game withunique voicelines and interactions. They’re pretty great and have been worth the wait, but the way they’ve been implemented has significantly soured what should be a cool update.
Rather than just being able to buy the three new skins, each one of them has to be purchased using six Haunted Candies each, which in themselves are purchased either using a special event currency or by purchasing the required Haunted Candies for 2,500 Gleamium per skin. Still with me so far? That works out to around £20 per skin, which is pretty pricey.
The strange currency conversions are annoying as is but to make matters worse, these three skins are “Elusive”, which means they’re limited-time and event-specific. MultiVersus usually lets you buy anything after it expires from a pass or event, but these three are only available now and then getting locked away until they’re brought out at an unknown point in the future.
The reaction to Elusive skins has been so bad thatPlayer First Games had to put out a statement confirming that they aren’t gone foreverand can feasibly return in the future.
As you can imagine, MultiVersus fans aren’t exactly reacting well to Elusive skins, with Twitter userFlash_MVS calling it the “dumbest business practice"they’ve seen from MV so far.Twitter user brodmultiversus also called them “stupid” and shared a threadpointing out all of the things wrong with making such anticipated skins a limited-time thing out of nowhere.
MultiVersus has made a number of strange business choices since it released in its 1.0 formand pretty much all of them have been controversial with players. The Elusive skins are yet another example of this, but it seems like it might be the straw that broke the bat-camel’s back.
