Posted 15 September 2014 - 11:53 AM
OK, now that I have a few minutes to calm down I can give you the thanks you deserve for the free mechs, mechbays, MC and cockpit items that add up to making this the best package reward you have ever made. Many props.
/engage rant
But using the hero version of the ever popular Mad Dog as the reward for people who already have everything/lure for those that don't, is quite frankly in very bad taste. $370 is a crazy amount of money to expect someone to put out for a single mech if the Mad Dog is all that you are after, and the cbill bonus version of such an iconic mech is obviously something genuinely desirable. Meh and humbug, and meh, and also, four months from pre-release to release? I thought you were done with those kind of time scales.
Many of us saw this coming when Russ teased wave 2 last week of course. The vulture was the logical reward mech precisely because it was so desirable. What other mech stood a chance of attracting anybody to picking up the old clan pack? And perhaps more importantly, ensure that as many current clan pack buyers pick up the full wave 2 pack as well? I guess it's just that your recent change of form had given me hope that you would choose another path.
Now clearly I am suffering from a bad case of sour grapes, and some might say, bitter envy. At least I am aware of it, and it's not without cause. The Vulture is my favourite mech of all time and I have been looking forward to it since the moment I heard of this MWO game that might be being made, but paying that much $$$ for it is just impossible. Free mechs are awesome and all but as I no longer play IS they mean nothing to me, and all I will be seeing on reward day is all the people piloting my favourite mech four months before I do, and in a cbill bonus version I will never own. Humbug, and more humbug. And q_q
/rant disengaged
So basically well done for the reward scheme. It's a great gift to the community and a real sign that you are turning things around. It's way more inclusive than I expected and will send waves of positive MWO chatter across the interwebs.
But damn you for the Vulture deal. Damn you right in the ear.