My thoughts on just reading the first page, surprised I haven’t seen this post sooner…
First off, Splash Damage is a business, and there was a VERY high demand for new alt-art Obsidians. And Obsidians by their NATURE, have ALWAYS been limited edition. Myself included felt when I got the somewhat crappy beta skin on my awesome Beta Phoenix that it’d be awesome and I’d be willing to pay for a cooler art. Myself INCLUDED wanted the founder obsidians, even to this day, just for the Skyhammer. But I have NEVER felt like this was some stupid shady business deal, in fact, it seems SD honors their commitments to their founders and their supporters more than any other business I’ve ever had the pleasure of being a consumer of. When they said these would permanently be just for the founders that bought them, they meant it, and it has stayed that way. They have my utmost respect in this regard. I KNOW they would make a lot more money in just bringing those models back for sale.
They are simply meeting a demand of the player base with this model, while also making money to continue running. It’d be one thing if they were selling mercs, but they’re not p2w, and this in no way violates that, so I just cannot agree with you. This is not a high pressure sales tactic, it’s simply the time they’ve put as the limit for this skin so that it stays unique. The only “pressure” here, has already been disregarded by your very plain words:
You aren’t fooling anybody; these are piles of pixels on a computer that you can redistribute at will whenever you damn well please.
They are piles of pixels, worthless to some, but awesome for others. They are not abusing anyone. They are creating a product, that we, as consumers, are supposed to be responsible enough to know if we should purchase or not.
! I personally didn’t like the skins of Turtle, Javelin, Phoenix, or Stoker. So plainly, I didn’t buy them. I play a lot of mobile games, ironically, and SD is far better in pricing and very awesome to allow direct purchases of exact loadouts. I’m honestly surprised they haven’t adopted a pay 5$ and get a RANDOM loadout obsidian buy once option too, as that is what most games give you, and it shows them shying away from the RNG that has plagued the game’s previous payable options for the last three years.
I absolutely have NEVER thought bad of SD for making these skins that they have, or for the expiration date. In fact, I think of worse of people who label them as Con-ning their players that they “don’t listen to” despite doing their very best. You want to know why they don’t look at these forums very often? It’s because they’re fudging TRYING TO GET STUFF DONE.
Anyway, regarding cards and your different opinions on opening a shop, it’d kind of defeat the purpose of an Obsidian loadout in the first place. This is a unique skin for a unique loadout, that all players have accessibility to in playstyle. However, I do patiently await trading, as I do believe that fixes most of these problems these people have. I do also believe they could make getting event cards more chooseable and easier earned, but it’s their game. If you had offered your store approach/request in a different way, that wasn’t entirely slanderous and in fact, ABUSIVE yourself, then I’d understand. But your initial post disgusts me. And I doubt, when phrased like that, a business would want to cater to such a customer.
Thank you for your opinion though, maybe some good fruit will come from it.
~Vanilla.
