Y'nit Gidrine
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.07.03 04:41:00 -
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To the OP:
Are you honestly asking a corporation to tell you what their future business plans will be before they know what their future business plans are? CCP has been - and is continuing to - experiment with how they can monetize the game so that they can pay off those loans they had to refinance back in October (the ones that were SUPPOSED to be paid with by micro transactions). How can they tell you what they are going to do in the future, when they don't know it yet themselves?
Consider this: HI BILLY MAYS HERE! I'M HERE TO TELL YOU ABOUT A LIMITED TIME OFFER OF TWO FREE MIGHTY PUTTIESGäó WITH YOUR ORDER OF OXICLEANGäó!!! BUT WAIT!!! IF YOU ORDER NOW, YOU ALSO GET A FREE MIGHTY PUTTY STEELGäó! BUT YOU BETTER ORDER NOW, THIS IS A LIMITED TIME OFFER AND IT WON'T LAST LONG!!!
What you are doing is the equivalent of getting upset that evil Billy Mays made a limited time offer where you get two free Mighty PuttiesGäó and one free Mighty Putty SteelGäó with your purchase of OxicleanGäó. You assumed that none of the products would ever be offered ever again. When in reality, it isn't the products which are "limited time only", but the combo deal with is a "limited time only". Everyone else seems to understand this (or at the very least isn't surprised by it).
Actually, your situation is even more (for lack of a better word) pathetic. You are effectively complaining that somebody else was allowed to purchase an air freshener that YOU got for free when you purchased a mercedes. Rational people do not buy a car so that they can get an air freshener, and they certainly do not get upset when the car company decides to offer air fresheners to other customers - even if the mercedes they bought only came with a free air freshener for a limited time only. You bought a mercedes, and your compensation was a mercedes. The complementary air freshener was a fringe benefit of marginal worth.
CCP's marketing was not deceptive unless they specifically stated that you would not be able to purchase the special t-shirt in any other way. YOU were the one who made this assumption, and by the looks of it, you don't have very much company. |