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[DeadlyNerd]

At least for a week.

What on earth compels someone to think the way their marketing department does.

"Hey there! The new mech is available for cash only for a whole week, until it becomes available to everyone! You should buy it because you're getting absolutely nothing extra if you do."

I don't care that people can buy it for cash 1 week before me. I'm just concerned about the IQ level of their marketing department, or namely their publisher IGP.
This, so called, "deal" is borderline moronic.

[Wintersdark]

You should be thankful the zounds of people who will buy it, the people with more money than free time, because they are the reason you can wait and not pay.

[Bilbo]

I take it you aren't buying one?

[DeadlyNerd]

while I know there's a very high possibility of morons for the following week, I don't think people are that stupid.

[Wintersdark]

I might. I was thinking of buying one with MC when they were released anyways. I'm already working 60 hour weeks and have precious little time to play and grind cbills, but after 40 hours everything I work is at $60/hr... So I can stay late for half an hour and grab another mech.

*shrugs* works for me.

[Hobo Dan]

I'd rather them make money on promotions like this than by making 10 new useless consumables.

Wintersdark, on 09 July 2013 - 09:14 AM, said:

You should be thankful the zounds of people who will buy it, the people with more money than free time, because they are the reason you can wait and not pay.

Also... this.

[Haree78]

So I have to put up with ****** game balance, zero hit reg on important competitive shots, trying to synch drop because the developers cant be arsed to give us a lobby or challenge system.
And now they are going to limit content to me for weeks on every new content release because I'm not made of money? (They have had almost $200 out of me already...).
My only response is **** you.

[DeadlyNerd]

Wintersdark, on 09 July 2013 - 09:18 AM, said:

I might. I was thinking of buying one with MC when they were released anyways. I'm already working 60 hour weeks and have precious little time to play and grind cbills, but after 40 hours everything I work is at $60/hr... So I can stay late for half an hour and grab another mech.

*shrugs* works for me.

It's one thing to buy them with your reasons, but this is being marketed as early access. Early access of a whole week. Games are sold early access with a discount.

Haree78, on 09 July 2013 - 09:22 AM, said:

So I have to put up with ****** game balance, zero hit reg on important competitive shots, trying to synch drop because the developers cant be arsed to give us a lobby or challenge system.
And now they are going to limit content to me for weeks on every new content release because I'm not made of money? (They have had almost $200 out of me already...).
My only response is **** you.

Hey hey, hold the rage. The mech was going to come out in a week anyway, early access or not.
I'm just ridiculing their marketing principles.

Edited by DeadlyNerd, 09 July 2013 - 09:24 AM.

[AnnoyingCat]

Guess it's a VictorY for PGI

[Wolftrot]

Hopefully these tards at PGI have shot themselves in the foot with this - you can't mount 3 PPCs and a Gauss on a Victor. This mech and any other without that combo is DOA. If only people would stop throwing money at these terrible money milking gaming companies then maybe, just maybe they'd get the hint and make it worth while to balance the game instead of catering to the "hardcore" gaming community that loves broken and imbalanced games just because they can exploit them to win at something.

[AntiCitizenJuan]

It's a good idea. PGI makes money off stupid people and the rest of us can check out how these mechs perform for a week before they come out.

[Agent 0 Fortune]

I don't think I have ever heard anyone QQ so much over someone else buying them a free lunch.

You should just enjoy the free ride instead of worrying about what everyone else is doing.

[Haree78]

DeadlyNerd, on 09 July 2013 - 09:23 AM, said:

Hey hey, hold the rage. The mech was going to come out in a week anyway, early access or not.
I'm just ridiculing their marketing principles.

I'm not an angry forum warrior normally but this ******* angers me. In the competitive scene I am seeing team after team leaving the game because of the state of the game and then I see them limiting content for 2 weeks to try and milk money out of people, I feel like PGI are ******* on long time players like myself feet and I will express my anger about it.

I can live with the hero mech being available a week before as a preview version, the hero mechs are normally not the current best in the meta and we can say in leagues hero mechs aren't allowed until the main chassis isn't available, no problem. But for this what is the competitive scene meant to do? Throw more money at a company that isn't delivering just to stay at the front of the meta? Why should long term players like me who have pumped more money in to the game than any other since World of Warcraft have to see new mechs on the battlefield for 2 weeks before we can use them?

[Relic1701]

2 Weeks....???? Last time I checked there were 7 days in a week...not 14!

16th is next Tuesday! You must really REALLY want a Victor....

Edited by Relic1701, 09 July 2013 - 12:02 PM.

[DeadlyNerd]

Agent 0 Fortune, on 09 July 2013 - 11:09 AM, said:

I don't think I have ever heard anyone QQ so much over someone else buying them a free lunch.

You should just enjoy the free ride instead of worrying about what everyone else is doing.

Hey look, it's the agent o clueless. Where exactly am I QQing?
If you're referring to anyone else, quotations are your friends.

AntiCitizenJuan, on 09 July 2013 - 10:54 AM, said:

It's a good idea. PGI makes money off stupid people and the rest of us can check out how these mechs perform for a week before they come out.

I would've said that I doubt that anyone is that stupid, but then I remembered I'd seen someone in a vtr after the announcement.

Edited by DeadlyNerd, 09 July 2013 - 12:25 PM.

[Caswallon]

Glad they are giving us new mechs. At least the Mech development dept seems to be going full bore even if we all agree there are our other things that we'd rather see fixed up in the game-play.

But isn't that the problem? Not meaning to sound like I am devaluing their work (coz i'm not) but I would have thought the boys and girls that port TT Mech designs to the graphical computer models we play with have the easy job compared to making the game balance choices and the game engine tweaks? Maybe I'm wrong but I suspect it may be so.

If ya want them badly enough to pay MC for them go for it. Most of us will wait I suspect. But please before this thread gets too hot can we recall we don't know (OK I don't alright?) The departmental structure at PGI.

Thumbs up for the mech makers regardless of when you get a Victor. Maybe the gameplay devs can learn from their example? But as for the marketing genius behind this early release....... Puh Leease your kiddin' right? It has only made me think the rumors (see some of the bitchin' on the phoenix feedback thread for examples) of PGI running out of money pre release may be correct...

edit: fixed a typo

Edited by Caswallon, 09 July 2013 - 12:37 PM.

[Otto Cannon]

So... In this thread I learned that apparently people who have a good job, make good money, and have a life outside computer games but who want to spend some money on having a choice of mechs when they have time to play are 'stupid'.

[Lord Ikka]

I wasn't going to get one anyway, so it's no skin off my back. Overall, the MC before c-bill release is fine. If you are too impatient to wait, you can buy it. Otherwise, wait a week and deal with it.

[Bilbo]

Otto Cannon, on 09 July 2013 - 12:50 PM, said:

So... In this thread I learned that apparently people who have a good job, make good money, and have a life outside computer games but who want to spend some money on having a choice of mechs when they have time to play are 'stupid'.

Seems to be the general consensus. Also, gaming companies apparently don't require any money to operate.

[Felicitatem Parco]

This insult thread is being Jettisoned.