Wanted to let this out for quite some time (but then some idiot hacked so yea).
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If you check out Aksys' site and all, you will see that something bad occurred which I believe was pointed out a few posts earlier. Here's a short recap. So apparently those who preordered the game before the preorder bonus was announced were not automatically given the bonus. Here is the deal breaker for many people. Aksys pretty much promised that they would and requested that these people not cancel their orders and rush during the 2nd wave. And to make matters worse, initially Aksys and Amazon were just pointing fingers at each other, seemingly not wanting to take responsibility for the booboo. Many people felt screwed over. Well, I understand.I too felt disappointed that such a thing happened to them because I would probably feel just a pissed if I were in their position.
However, after some time, Aksys and Amazon sent exclusive emails to these people with a link to purchase the preorder bonus. And they did provide a decent explanation for the mess up. Which should have been a good conclusion to the fiasco.
But no. People were raging and blasting both companies. HARD. Until now. Because there is one idiot who decided to publicise the supposedly exclusive link. So the watches that was supposed to go to the earlybirds got taken away. Now, they keep complaining about how Aksys is forsaking their loyal fans. Again and again. And from what I read, some of these guys are even pissed at people who got the watches legitly. And the one excuse which I loathe the most is "I have a life and I can't stalk the page man jeez i wan da watch nao". They are proposing crazy ass "solutions" which I don't really recall now. Heck some are still giving Aksys sh!t for doing the promo on Amazon as opposed to Gamestop. WTF serious?
Well I came upon a really good counterargument in one of the comments/ forum posts. While Aksys made a mistake by promising, the buyers did agree and commit to buy the regular version of the game at time of order. And as such, not getting the watch should not be a issue to start with. And after all, they DID try to make amends by sending you the link to get it. So if you "have a life" and what not, how is that Aksys' problem? And in what universe do you blame Aksys if there is a fool who makes that link public? It seems that ever since the watch was announced, it has been prioritised over the game itself.
And we wonder why companies rather give some lousy DLC instead nowadays.
And you wanna cancel order and boycott other products to show that your stance on the matter? No worries. Cos surely Aksys will still localise other games which no one seems to want to do when it is not really all that profitable while getting rubbish from weeaboos.
*sigh* If only these people can see how fortunate they already are. I admit I am no saint. I have bashed RSG for going single audio and not having the watch. And I apologise for that. Cos at least I can get to play the 3DS version in English.
Hmm I think my wall of text is kinda incoherent atm. May rephrase at a later date.
I applaud you if you managed to read all that. Do forgive me. Just that it seems so sad that fans can also turn out to be so shitty.
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If you check out Aksys' site and all, you will see that something bad occurred which I believe was pointed out a few posts earlier. Here's a short recap. So apparently those who preordered the game before the preorder bonus was announced were not automatically given the bonus. Here is the deal breaker for many people. Aksys pretty much promised that they would and requested that these people not cancel their orders and rush during the 2nd wave. And to make matters worse, initially Aksys and Amazon were just pointing fingers at each other, seemingly not wanting to take responsibility for the booboo. Many people felt screwed over. Well, I understand.I too felt disappointed that such a thing happened to them because I would probably feel just a pissed if I were in their position.
However, after some time, Aksys and Amazon sent exclusive emails to these people with a link to purchase the preorder bonus. And they did provide a decent explanation for the mess up. Which should have been a good conclusion to the fiasco.
But no. People were raging and blasting both companies. HARD. Until now. Because there is one idiot who decided to publicise the supposedly exclusive link. So the watches that was supposed to go to the earlybirds got taken away. Now, they keep complaining about how Aksys is forsaking their loyal fans. Again and again. And from what I read, some of these guys are even pissed at people who got the watches legitly. And the one excuse which I loathe the most is "I have a life and I can't stalk the page man jeez i wan da watch nao". They are proposing crazy ass "solutions" which I don't really recall now. Heck some are still giving Aksys sh!t for doing the promo on Amazon as opposed to Gamestop. WTF serious?
Well I came upon a really good counterargument in one of the comments/ forum posts. While Aksys made a mistake by promising, the buyers did agree and commit to buy the regular version of the game at time of order. And as such, not getting the watch should not be a issue to start with. And after all, they DID try to make amends by sending you the link to get it. So if you "have a life" and what not, how is that Aksys' problem? And in what universe do you blame Aksys if there is a fool who makes that link public? It seems that ever since the watch was announced, it has been prioritised over the game itself.
And we wonder why companies rather give some lousy DLC instead nowadays.
And you wanna cancel order and boycott other products to show that your stance on the matter? No worries. Cos surely Aksys will still localise other games which no one seems to want to do when it is not really all that profitable while getting rubbish from weeaboos.
*sigh* If only these people can see how fortunate they already are. I admit I am no saint. I have bashed RSG for going single audio and not having the watch. And I apologise for that. Cos at least I can get to play the 3DS version in English.
Hmm I think my wall of text is kinda incoherent atm. May rephrase at a later date.
I applaud you if you managed to read all that. Do forgive me. Just that it seems so sad that fans can also turn out to be so shitty.
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