layla54
Guardian
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2007
- Posts
- 213
- Location
- default-free zone
- Society
- MANTICORE
It's been a PR nightmare. I know that, as several people have said above, some people should be ashamed of themselves, but I'd have thought that some one in the boardroom would have said "lets not show ourselves up on this one". Companies are judged by their actions and decisions as well as people.(*)
They claim to have in the region of a million customers, yet they think that giving out an extremely limited number of desirable items in that manner (via in-game trade from only 2 official avatars) will be good business PR? They have a perfectly workable method of delivering "freebies" at regular times throughout the year already implemented. Alternatively, they also have and established "roll of the dice" loot/decision system, they could have run a `random` draw for them from the active player-base (which is significantly less than the registered accounts)
I'm just hoping that none of that embarrassing stuff ends up on YouTube or similar. I don't want to be associated with the sort of company that think it's an efficient method of PR to drum up business never mind the actions of the customers.
I've been embarrassed enough with the shoddy performance and loss of advertised features in the game, I just tell everyone I don't play anymore when they ask at work. I wish I'd never asked them to try it out EU tbh
.
The sad thing is, if you didn't get a car, then you're at a immediate PvP (miner as well as PKer) disadvantage from the minute they're introduced into game. Crafters needing the PvP-zone enmatters and ores are indirectly affected if it significantly changes the supply of PvP rarities to one particular group of customers; a cartel could well be established given a reasonable fleet of vehicles. Those who don't see PvP as a source of income may find that hard to grasp though.
The owners of TP chips above lesser also have had their chip "investments" diminished too.
I know that if you didn't get a free one you could `just depo and buy one`, but that leaves you a couple of hundred US$ down compared to the customers that got them. With RL money at stake at those sorts of amount, they should have expected a lot of pushing and shoving and customer disgust.
It must have been non-stop hell for those two avas, they have my deepest sympathies. I just hope they had the chat off so they didn't hear the abuse directed their way. Ironically, for the first time in my 4 years in-game I hope that there is a `preferred avatar` system where good loot is manually allocated to `nice` avatars
(*) because of the significant financial lock-in (compared to my RL tangible finances) I have with MA/FPC, their success is in my financial interest. This isn't a whine, it's a simple operational business consideration.
They claim to have in the region of a million customers, yet they think that giving out an extremely limited number of desirable items in that manner (via in-game trade from only 2 official avatars) will be good business PR? They have a perfectly workable method of delivering "freebies" at regular times throughout the year already implemented. Alternatively, they also have and established "roll of the dice" loot/decision system, they could have run a `random` draw for them from the active player-base (which is significantly less than the registered accounts)
I'm just hoping that none of that embarrassing stuff ends up on YouTube or similar. I don't want to be associated with the sort of company that think it's an efficient method of PR to drum up business never mind the actions of the customers.
I've been embarrassed enough with the shoddy performance and loss of advertised features in the game, I just tell everyone I don't play anymore when they ask at work. I wish I'd never asked them to try it out EU tbh
.The sad thing is, if you didn't get a car, then you're at a immediate PvP (miner as well as PKer) disadvantage from the minute they're introduced into game. Crafters needing the PvP-zone enmatters and ores are indirectly affected if it significantly changes the supply of PvP rarities to one particular group of customers; a cartel could well be established given a reasonable fleet of vehicles. Those who don't see PvP as a source of income may find that hard to grasp though.
The owners of TP chips above lesser also have had their chip "investments" diminished too.
I know that if you didn't get a free one you could `just depo and buy one`, but that leaves you a couple of hundred US$ down compared to the customers that got them. With RL money at stake at those sorts of amount, they should have expected a lot of pushing and shoving and customer disgust.
It must have been non-stop hell for those two avas, they have my deepest sympathies. I just hope they had the chat off so they didn't hear the abuse directed their way. Ironically, for the first time in my 4 years in-game I hope that there is a `preferred avatar` system where good loot is manually allocated to `nice` avatars
(*) because of the significant financial lock-in (compared to my RL tangible finances) I have with MA/FPC, their success is in my financial interest. This isn't a whine, it's a simple operational business consideration.
Last edited:
