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[Joseph Mallan]

Rhaythe, on 06 May 2014 - 05:11 AM, said:

My boss' father has eatten the same peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch for the past 45 years.

I'm catching up.

[Zolaz]

I wish PGI was as loyal to the Founders as the Founders were to PGI.

[Joseph Mallan]

Zolaz, on 06 May 2014 - 05:14 AM, said:

I wish PGI was as loyal to the Founders as the Founders were to PGI.

So a enemy loyal to his Lord?

[dario03]

Joseph Mallan, on 06 May 2014 - 05:06 AM, said:

Double the price. Yes
Change the ingredients... probably
It has been Catsup in my vernacular for 43 years!

Loyalty is.

You just called it ketchup....

Point being is everybody has a limit to their loyalty especially when it comes to a business.

[Joseph Mallan]

dario03, on 06 May 2014 - 05:19 AM, said:

You just called it ketchup....

Point being is everybody has a limit to their loyalty especially when it comes to a business.

Of course I did. Heathens would have pounced had I called it by its real name!

Business and Loyalty are fickle friends at best.

[Zolaz]

Joseph Mallan, on 06 May 2014 - 05:15 AM, said:

So a enemy loyal to his Lord?

Everyone who helps you isnt your friend. Every opponent isnt an enemy.

[Joseph Mallan]

Well done sir!

[SharpTooth Steiner]

Joseph Mallan, on 06 May 2014 - 05:47 AM, said:

Well done sir!

I agree.

[Creovex]

Nikolai Lubkiewicz, on 05 May 2014 - 07:51 AM, said:

Putting aside the suggestions which come with some pretty tough ethical and criminal dilemmas...
While physical goods had been considered. It's important to keep in mind that our license places us as digital distribution only. Giveaways of free swag at live events are one thing but systematic creation, sale/gifting and delivery of physical goods requires much more clearance and overhead than we can dedicate at this time beyond value-added digital bonuses to future packages.

Bravo for being transparent. I never thought about the license being digital only but it makes sense. Thanks for the response.

[Aurien Titus]

PGI can't even be bothered to fix the bug of our founders badges disappearing after you change your options. That bug has only been around for over a year now. They have more important things like new cockpit items and other things to charge people money for. Why would they care to fix something they already have money for? **** those chumps, am I right PGI?

[Jun Watarase]

Rhaythe, on 04 May 2014 - 10:57 AM, said:

You don't fund early-access games on what they promise the game will be. You fund them on what they are on the day you purchase. Anything else is just icing and more bang for your buck.

Thats not completely true. Its a common practice in business to show a prototype to investors who then invest in you based on your claims of what the final product will be.

Many people claim that the packages are a good deal. If you go by the declared values of PGI, you do save money. However this assumes that you do actually want to use everything in the package.

There are many legendary founders out there who regretted buying the legendary package because they ended up with 3 junk mechs and a sub par one, MC they cant spend on anything except premium time, hero mechs and cosmetic items, and premium time they never intended to use till community warfare was in (because its just a arena shooter now). So in the end, the package wasnt a very good deal at all.

Its a common marketing strategy to give "freebies" to encourage purchase, but most often these freebies are of little use to the customer. I got a junk watch with a purchase of hair gel a while back, it was the cheapest and most horrible plastic watch i have ever seen, more like a toy really...so in the end i got nothing extra.

And the value of the freebies are often exaggerated wildly.

Edited by Jun Watarase, 06 May 2014 - 07:34 PM.