FlipOver, on 08 August 2014 - 02:42 AM, said:
Let's get one thing straight.
You use your own money to get access to special content (mechs, cammos, patterns, cockpit items and so on) but according to the ToS you agreed on when installing the game, PGI can change those items at any time and if you happen to use those items before the change, you will be stuck with them.
Making topic after topic around this issue gets old fast.
To me, MWO is still in Beta mode and will stay in that stage for a while.
My suggestion:
If you think of it like I do, you will buy a (new) mech expecting that mech to be changed in the near future.
Don't agree with the way I see it and you don't want to experience this issue? Don't buy 'mechs until you feel the game is matured. Simple.
If you do buy new mechs, my advise is to embrace the changes (when they happen) and keep having fun in the game.
Once the fun is gone, take a break and hope when you return, the game has matured enough for you to feel comfortable buying 'mechs.
In short:
Stop this "I want a refund" madness everytime PGI changes something.
Either submit a ticket for a refund or understand that you are stuck with what you bought regardless the changes PGI makes.
Let get something straight.
If you purchase something for real money, you should be able to have a reasonable expectation that the product you purchased will not be changed in any dramatic fashion.
Now I understand sometimes nerfs happen because they are required to balance a game, but when those changes drastically alter a cash purchase, there should be some recourse for reimbursement of anything purchased for cash that is drastically change. For example, if the JJ nerf had taken place before I purchased my Heavy Metal, I wouldn't have purchased it. Now I am sitting on a $50 investment that I find no longer fun to play thus rendering it useless and waste of my money.
Now let me give an example of how it should be handled. WoTs did a significant charge to the premium Super Pershing tank which drastically altered its armor and characteristics. Because it was a cash purchase item, the offered a one time refund of its purchase price paid out in, in game currency.
Now, they did not offer a cash refund so they didn't lose any money, however it allowed me the option to sell a tank that no longer performed the same way it did previously and then use that in game currency to buy anything else I wanted. I did take advantage of this and ended up buying an even more expensive tank thus spending more real $$$ and ended up happy and content. This is how it should work.
So yeah PGI nerfed my Heavy Metal hard so I should have the option to sell is back for 6750 MC which I could use on another Hero Mech, premium time, swag, whatever AND NOT BE STUCK WITH A WORTHLESS MECH that every time I look at in my stable, gives me a bad taste in my mouth and makes me want to quit the game.
Edited by Viktor Drake, 08 August 2014 - 08:48 AM.
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