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[M O J O]

Hello everyone. I was wondering how I can get my hands on the bolt on for the shadow cat which look like spoilers. I've looked online and haven't had much success so I figured I would ask here. Thanks in advance for any help!

[martian]

M O J O, on 23 October 2022 - 08:26 AM, said:

Hello everyone. I was wondering how I can get my hands on the bolt on for the shadow cat which look like spoilers. I've looked online and haven't had much success so I figured I would ask here. Thanks in advance for any help!

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[M O J O]

Ah thank you for the response.

[martian]

M O J O, on 23 October 2022 - 08:45 AM, said:

Ah thank you for the response.

I wonder if creating some game items and not making them available later is really the best course of action. But PGI knows it better.

[w0qj]

+1
I personally feel that the pre-order items be available for MC 6 months after launch is OK...
[Disclaimer: I do have the pre-order for both below items...]

~Elementals for Dire Wolf + Timber Wolf !!

~Wings for Shadow Cat

[Heavy Money]

Yeah I'd buy a second Predator pack if I could.

[w0qj]

Yeah, I too would buy a 2nd (Warden) pack if I could!
(I own the Stryker/Warden/Hunter/Predator/Rivals/Bloodname/Crusader packs!)

Heavy Money, on 25 October 2022 - 12:43 PM, said:

Yeah I'd buy a second Predator pack if I could.

[martian]

w0qj, on 25 October 2022 - 07:49 AM, said:

+1
I personally feel that the pre-order items be available for MC 6 months after launch is OK...
[Disclaimer: I do have the pre-order for both below items...]

~Elementals for Dire Wolf + Timber Wolf !!

~Wings for Shadow Cat

My idea was similar: Keeping such stuff for 4-6 months as preorder reward (so it is exclusive for a quarter or a half of year to those who preordered) and then making it available through the Store.

Actually, some players have asked about those wings directly in the game, when they saw somebody having them on his Shadow Cat. They liked them and said that they saw them in their previous games on other Shadow Cats. But when they checked the Store, those wings were nowhere to be found.

I told them that those wings are not available for purchase and possibly they will never will be.

They were not pleased to hear that ...

[confracto]

It was my dream when I did the Elementals for the Warden Pack to eventually release a standard set of them with a more standard/less interesting paint job for MC, and maybe expand their availability to other 3050 era Omnimechs.

I agree, and have the whole time, that limited time purchase items feel silly, and don't feel fun. I once waited a year for skin in Guild Wars 2 to finally come back into rotation so I could buy it. The experience definitely left a sour taste in my mouth since, and still does every time I run around in that game with that skin on. The idea that some things go on sale and then never reappear again is even more frustrating, especially when it's something like a special version with no standard equivalent.

There's also times where it's obviously necessary to limit sales, like Sarah's Jenner, because of external agreements, or something like the Founders Pack which was entirely designed to be for those who got in before the game opened up. I've no idea why gold 'Mechs were ever limited in number though, it just kinda feels like NFTs, and not in a good way.

Either way, I'm encouraged that people have been so interested in some of the booster pack bolt-ons. It was exciting to design bolt-ons for this pack with Alex I., and make what we'd both envisioned they should be, as neither of us were involved with any bolt-ons before this.

[Heavy Money]

Lockheed_, on 26 October 2022 - 06:49 PM, said:

The booster packs with their unique camo and bolt-ons IMO are the best content in MWO.
This is how bolt-ons and special camos should have been done right from the beginning.

Agreed. The older boltons are pretty terrible.

[Delete Dragon]

martian, on 25 October 2022 - 06:51 AM, said:

I wonder if creating some game items and not making them available later is really the best course of action. But PGI knows it better.

Maybe some day UNICEF will get into the Mechwarrior Business.

[martian]

Delete Dragon, on 29 October 2022 - 07:43 PM, said:

Maybe some day UNICEF will get into the Mechwarrior Business.

That is why I suggested that PGI could offer those items in the Store later.