I love that joints can be textured in Toribash. It can really complete a set and add to the eye popping wow factor.

But I think we can all agree that they haven't picked up in popularity very much yet. The main reason is certainly their steep price.

Not very many artists bother spending time making textures for joints because very few can afford to spend 700-800k on texture items alone.

If Joint Textures were somewhat equalized with the other textures in price, they would quickly rise in popularity. Artists would rise to the occasion, and an influx of joint art would come to the market. Joints are a special item, due to their high price, and should remain special. So what I am suggesting is just to somewhat equalize them to make them more attainable. At the moment, a full 128 Joint Texture set is 1 million tc, and a 256 Joint Texture set 2 million in the shop. If that were reduced even by half, these items would still be considered rare and special, but would become attainable by more people and sooner.
Apparently, body textures underwent this change, starting at a very high price, and then were lowered to be made more attainable.

They will be reduced, needs time.

Everything is reduced in time dealing with textures. To buy a 128 head texture used to be 20k 3-4 years ago. Now it's 2k, and I can get one for 1.6k. gone down quite a bit.

Probably for an estimate, 128 joint textures will go down to probably 20-30k in shop, 256 will go down 50k-70k in shop, and then 512 which aren't released yet stay around 100k-150k... Idk, don't take my word on that though, maybe not, maybe so. that's what I see them going down to in the future, maybe not soon, but eventually.

128 joints would go down to what you said.
256's would be slightly lower since they're less popular.
512's would probably be like 512 grounds. 90k when no ones selling and then 70k when lots are up for sale.
They'll probably go down when 512 joints are released.

That sounds great. Looking forward to this happening, and, oh baby, 512 joints!

Anyone have a forecast of when we can expect this to happen? Even if its just based on how long it took for body textures to drop in price?

How long has it been since 128 joint textures have been first introduced?

That is good to know. I imagine then that the scenario was similar with body textures back when they were expensive, that only a select few could afford them, and that they became very popular once they were made affordable. Well, that is good news. I am looking forward to seeing joint texture price equalization. Also looking forward to the artists responses, and see creative use of the joint textures. That will be very exciting.