Fiendir

I'm just so eternally, utterly disappointed by this whole debacle. Even more so by this response. The one massive reason I love this game over any other live service is that the whole FOMO/artificial scarcity has been... So very minimal. Yeah, there's the Twitch Prime gaming stuff. Technically the Prime accessories as well. But the latter come around every now and then, so it's not a "never" but a "not right now." It's been alright, and we've been very happy with that. This is why taking a beautiful pack meant to celebrate 10 years of this beautiful game and community... And making it time-gated? Should NEVER have even been considered. Digital Extremes is no longer a struggling indie dev trying to get their one shot to land or go under, there's no bonuses outside of BUY THEM SOON OR NEVER cosmetics to spending this ridiculous amount of money. Making this "celebration" a time-gated, single-option buy is an absolute slap to the face or the community you are trying to celebrate. And then the response. Goddamnit, the problem isn't value, it's that the offering itself is overpriced as hell to begin with AND time-gated to make people think less about how expensive it really is. Overpriced and for no good apparent reason time-gated is the two-hit combo of bad things that make me care less about however much plat/regal aya value is contained, and more about what kind of ethical values you want to use, such as making things limited just for the sake of hyping up short-term sales. Worst part of all; you knew this backlash would happen. This is the exact same problem of the initial Regal Aya disaster. And worse, it has the exact same objectively S#&$ty solution of "devalue plat even more" that is at best... Ignorant. Very ignorant. And at worst, downright malicious and deliberate. I can't tell you how hype I to grab the Grendel Prime access, but we know very damn well I won't spend another penny until there's some serious conversation with your community on why you chose this strategy out of every other potential one. I don't want to assume it's because of greed, but you are making that very, very difficult to do anything else. Looking forward to hearing more on how this was intended to be received, and how you aim to correct it. If this is all the response there is? I'm out. Flat gone.

I'm just so eternally, utterly disappointed by this whole debacle. Even more so by the response posted just now. The one reason I've loved this game over any other live service is that the whole FOMO/artificial scarcity has been... So very minimal. Yeah, there's the Twitch Prime gaming stuff. Technically the Prime accessories as well. But the latter come around every now and then, so it's not a "never" but a "not right now." It's been alright, and we've been very happy with that. This is why taking a beautiful pack meant to celebrate 10 years of this beautiful game and community... And making it time-gated? Should NEVER have even been considered. Digital Extremes is no longer a struggling indie dev trying to get their one shot to land or go under, there's no bonuses outside of BUY THEM SOON OR NEVER cosmetics to spending this ridiculous amount of money. Making this "celebration" a time-gated, single-option buy is an absolute slap to the face or the community you are trying to celebrate. And then the response. Goddamnit, the problem isn't value, it's that the offering itself is overpriced as hell to begin with AND time-gated to make people think less about how expensive it really is. Overpriced and for no good apparent reason time-gated is the two-hit combo of bad things that make me care less about however much plat/regal aya value is contained, and more about what kind of ethical values you want to use, such as making things limited just for the sake of hyping up short-term sales. Worst part of all; you knew this backlash would happen. This is the exact same problem of the initial Regal Aya disaster. And worse, it has the exact same objectively S#&$ty solution of "devalue plat even more" that is at best... Ignorant. Very ignorant. And at worst, downright malicious and deliberate. I can't tell you how hype I to grab the Grendel Prime access, but we know very damn well I won't spend another penny until there's some serious conversation with your community on why you chose this strategy out of every other potential one. I don't want to assume it's because of greed, but you are making that very, very difficult to do anything else. Looking forward to hearing more on how this was intended to be received, and how you aim to correct it. If this is all the response there is? I'm out. Flat gone.