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Recently, we have been seeing more and more exclusive costumes pop up in the community, with more coming for season 3. Besides being a helper on the fall guys discord, or being a fall guys streamer, exclusive costumes like Dark Knight are given away by a) luck contests or b) art contests.
The community managers justify the current giveaways as being a way to grow the community. However, the typical fall guys player is trapped under a glass ceiling, with no reasonable expectation of winning an exclusive costume. If you're not an artist, you essentially gotta win the lottery to get one of these exclusive content drops. The one in-game challenge we've seen was to find all the little yeeties hidden throughout the game to win magic dragon. It was tedious, time consuming, and boring. After one person got it, that was all.... Yikes.
Instead, there should be community-wide challenge tasks such as "Get first place on fruit chute while running straight up the middle". "Qualify first on ski fall with you camera pointing backwards". "Win hex-a-gone without jumping or diving." "Finish slime climb in under x amount of seconds". PS4 and PC players alike could capture their clips and submit them.
Clips would need to be submitted on social media, presumably, which would create the same buzz as the other contests. At the end of the week, the top clips could be reviewed on the community managers' stumblechums stream, and a few winners could be announced to win the exclusive costume in question.
This contest would encourage people to boot up fall guys and grind. It would bring more traffic to fall guys social media, as people share their clips. Lastly, more people would tune in to the community streams to see the neat clips submitted by the community. It seems like a great compromise to cater to the wider community with costume giveaways, while still preserving the rarity of these costumes in game. I see this as a huge help for marketing and community interaction alike. Thoughts?
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