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Check out Alpha Two Announcements here to see the latest Alpha Two news and update notes.
Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
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Having your identity stolen may not end your life but it can ruin it. It’s not as dramatic a result but not the worst analogy.
Except it still isn’t quite applicable. My.com isn’t selling hamburgers. It’s not giving you a product. The product is AoC which is made by IS. My.com is like the delivery company delivering the burger. If you got food poisoning that’s not the delivery person’s fault. Blame the restaurant that prepared it.
Now if that delivery company always drops off the food an hour late, cold, and with a footprint on it, then you might have second thoughts...
And the “cosmetic shop” has been around since the beginning, you must not have been paying attention.
Honestly guys, give up acting like lemmings. Do your own research on my.com or use the list somebody compiled on discord what´s the issues are with the publisher. Do you honestly believe that a company who acted like they did in the past until now, somehow magically overnight change their business practices because Steven Shariff in a white shining plate armour rides across and purifies them from their former sins? Please for god's sake stop being delusional. My.com want first and foremost one thing and that is making money, and they will do that no matter what.
What we have are a lot of promises, if they will come true nobody knows. So be careful with your trust. A lot of things have been said and then decided otherwise.
And call it for what it is, a CASH shop.
There is no box cost, pay the sub get the game. As far as a cash shop goes as long as it stays cosmetics it shouldn't be a problem no one is gonna force you to buy anything from it and your game play isn't affected
Concerning my.com, I watched a LazyPeon vid today on the my.com topic and I think he fleshed it out pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGsXie8d8mM
Well worth your time if you confused as to whats going on, or why that occurred. TLDW version is basically it was either my.com and maintain all creative control, or delay EU release to self publish. After watching all this, I'm not sure I agree with their decision but I certainly understand.
And did you know that every current major MMO that requires a subscription has a “cash shop” also? Even WoW. The cash shop will help fund things, it means not having to charge extra like asking for a box price or gouging you on DLCs. And it is totally optional; no pay-to-win. You can pay money if you want your horse to look like an armored bear or want your cloak to have a bird’s beak on it or whatever. If you don’t want to spend money in it, don’t. Let other players spend hundreds of dollars on it so they can have all their gear look gold-plated and meanwhile you just pay for your subscription and enjoy the stuff they’re paying for.
You seem to have no complaints except guilt-by-association. Like the guy who stole your high school girlfriend drove a green Toyota so now everyone who drives one must be bad. You’re complaining about costs when you don’t even know how much it will cost; you’re guessing a $60 box price (I assume that’s what the $60 comment meant) but you’re wrong, there’s no box cost.
My.com has no creative control, they won’t be able to influence the game to make it suck like their other games. They’ll only run servers and field customer support. And they’re only publishing in EU, are you over there too? If not that won’t even affect you.
You’re getting worked up when it looks like you really haven’t read much about this game at all. Go read a couple articles or the FAQ or the wiki. There’s a lot of information about this game that’s more reliable than your assumptions or things you just made up.
Also you can't promise anything. I don't know much about My.Com never heard of them till recently.
I can say if you said the same thing and they were getting in bed with EA , Ubisoft or Daybreak, I'd be ROFLMFAO.
Glad I'm not in EU as far as AOC is concerned I feel bad for all the EU brothers and sisters out there.
But honestly who are you to judge people that are upset over this situation it's for each person to decide for themselves.
I can tell you if I had doubts about something and someone tried to strong arm or guilt me to think other wise it would just make me doubt to the nth degree more.
Positive words and facts would work much better to ease a situation like this.
You making a promise you cant make, or statements like 100% creative control when dealing with monetary concerns are not the type of words that elist trust.
In situations like these it's best not to throw fuel to the fire when things are already hot.
But thanks for the laugh.