First off.... Next Island is not live yet NOR has the Planet Partner ever claimed it to be finished. It is still in Beta Testing form to weed out bugs, etc.
Secondly.... At no time did NI staff say "Hey everyone.... run to Greece it's AMAZING!"
Thirdly.... If someone wants to spend several thousand PED to go to an area in-game that no-one has been to, that the planet owner hasn't advertised as being complete AT ALL, and that is NEW given the track records of ANYTHING that's ever been new in-game since day one.... well... that's up to them. In all her excitement and drive to be the "FIRST" to do something in-game she spent a bit too much. She should have known better.... Kitten is not a 3 day old noob by any means. Does anyone in their right mind BELIEVE Next Island wants the time travel to cost 3k+ PED? C'mon now.... a smart player would wait until the price to travel was equal to traveling to CP/CND, and would wait until there was alot more information regarding what gear to bring, etc. Kitten made a decision. Maybe she regrets it now but hey.... check out all the discovery swirlies she got......
FOURTHLY.... now that you've told the whole world that she was "going to bed in tears", all I can say is...
Kitten... in this Universe you live by the sword.... you die by the sword... look on the bright side, at least you GOT something for your several K PED spent.... look at all the ES500 owners who lost several K PED and got NOTHING in return. Quit crying and start mapping out the revive lines!
Menace
First, Next Island is
absolutely live ... ND created lots of publicity about it, David Post Tweets about it, and Meg blogs about it, and ... they've demo'd it publicly to the media and others more than once. The message they consistently give is ... come sign up, download the game, and enjoy Next Island, but neglect to say, don't pay attention that it's not a complete environment yet.
Second ... there's lots of chatter at the NI forum about time travel, and not
once was the community told not to attempt getting to Ancient Greece. Instead, they just let people try, and try, and try, only to fail over and over again. Yes, it cost Kitten a great deal of PED, but are we now to learn from her experiences that time travel is only going to be for those who spend craploads of money? Also, if Ancient Greece wasn't complete, then why make it possible to travel there?
Third ... are you saying that it's Kitten's fault that she makes use of in-game items and features that are put there by the developer with
no warning whatsoever
not to use them because they are faulty, and they really don't want us to spend thousands of PEDs trying to figure it out? Are you
kidding me?
Fourth, and for the record ... I didn't tell the whole world that Kitten went to bed in tears,
she did that herself at the EP forum in the front page article Peter did about her time travel adventure.
Fifth, I also have to question what the ES500's have to do with anything. That's a whole different discussion, and doesn't even relate to what's happened here.
Sixth, I absolutely think that Kitten should go back to the main part of the planet, and should be reimbursed as a result of being put in a situation where nothing is working, other than an option to spend money killing mobs, not to mention non-functioning weapons after 5 swipes (as she says). Had to make sure the spending money part was functioning, right?
As a matter of fact, I think that everyone who continually made attempts with this blueprint (which is seemingly bugged by all indications in posts) should be reimbursed based on your comment ... "
Does anyone in their right mind BELIEVE Next Island wants the time travel to cost 3k+ PED? C'mon now.... a smart player would wait until the price to travel was equal to traveling to CP/CND, and would wait until there was alot more information regarding what gear to bring, etc." ... if that's the case, why put something out there that isn't functioning properly, and something they don't want us to spend a lot of PED on? Sorry, but your argument doesn't make sense.
I think
anyone would be incredibly frustrated if found in the same circumstances ... no use of fap, armor, weapons (other than the "ice daggers" is it from the mainland?), no TT, no auction, no nothing, and you can't drop anything on the ground either, not even what you've looted there ... can't dump anything ... not to mention everything you brought with is grayed out and not usable, including your clothes, so you have to run around in your underwear. So, that leaves only one thing you can do after you collect, what, 6 or 8 TP's ... and guess what, it costs money, with no way to off-load the loot.
What's curious to me as well, is that neither NDS or David Post have come forth to give any type of statement about this situation ... if they did, I wonder what they would say.
