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Aighun
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Posted - 2012.11.18 16:48:00 -
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Tony Calif wrote:Sir Petersen wrote:And what? Did you forget you are playing a Beta version of the game? Bash your head into a wall until it starts to bleed.
Look, see, since you called me names I had to follow you here to this thread. Yes, I admit that it was trollish to follow you and to say that you called me names. But I wanted to also say I agree with the sentiment you expressed above.
Saying "it's a beta" when posters like in the OP are pointing out problems that have been improved upon but not solved also makes me want to face palm. That is exactly what we are supposed to do in a beta, point out problems with game play. In a straightforward and reasonable manner. |
Aighun
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Posted - 2012.11.18 17:56:00 -
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KripnawtiQ Prime wrote:
CCP is allowing people to PAY for access to this game through merc packs. CCP is allowing people to BUY Aur, which is used to purchase in game content.
Believe it or not this process of using currency in exchange for goods and services has a word: Retail.
This is not technically true. What you pay for with the merc pack is AUR and a few in game items. So as a paying customer all you might really be entitled to take issue with with are the items (such as the toxin smg, dragonfly scout suit) and the aur. So you would have a valid point if the dragonfly suit was depicted as blue but really turned out to be orange. Or if the 30 day booster only lasted 10 days.
Yes, the sucky thing is that the items are great (at least I though the were) but where you have to go to use those items is still under construction. And there is this little clause you kind of sign off on by accessing the beta about helping with the construction by providing feedback.
People with greater legal expertise than I will have to decide exactly what is and isn't bought or sold in a free to play game where you received early access to a test version of that game as a promotional gift when buying items for a game that doesn't cost anything and doesn't yet exist in its "retail" form, and, as it is free, will never exist in retail formGǪ
Say Disney were to open a new "free to enter!" exclusively Star Wars theme park. Say they put together a promotion where you can buy a Luke Sky walker outfit, a Princess Leah stroller, a couple thousand Jedi dollars, a box of Jar Jar donuts, a Millennium Falcon golf cart and a meal at the Mos Eisley cantina. The catch is that you can only use these things in the theme park. But they let you in the park before the official opening as a special promotion. So you decide to buy the stuff and go. Who wouldn't? But only 2 of the rides are working due to technical difficulties, the really slow rides for toddlers. And you only had the one week off. And they still make you fill out a survey when you leave. Worst vacation ever.
So you can always go back next year but by then the park will be open to the public. WIll they still have trouble getting all the rides working every day? Who knows. At least you'll still get to eat your Jar Jar donuts if you feel like going back.
So, were you a sucker for paying for all that stuff? Or is Disney evil corporate scum for letting you go and spend money on stuff you didn't need and then letting you into an amusement park that was under construction with 80 percent of the rides down?
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Aighun
Zumari Force Projection
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Posted - 2012.11.19 00:31:00 -
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Roy Bombega wrote:Sir Petersen wrote:And what? Did you forget you are playing a Beta version of the game? "ITS JUST A BETA" is never an appropriate response.
It is when the complaints can be parsed as: "This game is so uncompleted, it is like they are still working on it and expect us to try out different things and offer feedback. So lame."
In that case "Its a beta" is the only appropriate response. |
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