This is Chris today

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Aim_Deep wrote:

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cutt wrote:

I wish I could afford the cheapest one, but I can't. It's hard living in Putin's Russia, especially when all your savings lose half of its value =\

Its hard living in democratic USA when they steal half your check so deadbeats can live for free. Free Healthcare, Free house. Free food. Free Child care. So lucrative its not even worth working for low skilled ppl as you lose it all and make less money. Democracy is like two wolves and sheep deciding on dinner. Works great until you run out of sheep.

gz on your key cool gesture:)

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Umyx wrote:

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Charan wrote:

I can't afford or justify mass-buying packs costing 30 bucks

But you were able to blow $12,500 on a Ruler of Wraeclast pack.

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Rowen_Edge wrote:

And you completely missed his point.

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Umyx wrote:

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Charan wrote:

I can't afford or justify mass-buying packs costing 30 bucks

But you were able to blow $12,500 on a Ruler of Wraeclast pack.

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Umyx wrote:

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Rowen_Edge wrote:

And you completely missed his point.

Negatory, cap'n!

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Charan wrote:

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Umyx wrote:

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Charan wrote:

I can't afford or justify mass-buying packs costing 30 bucks

But you were able to blow $12,500 on a Ruler of Wraeclast pack.

I also have a $70k car and a $600k townhouse, would you rather I drive a ten year old Corolla and live in a $500 a month ghetto apartment in Delafuckingnoware? Because I've done both. For years.

This isn't about what I can or could afford -- it's about justification.

I did buy over $1k worth of beta keys for people in the original Closed Beta. That was totally justified -- I was bringing new people to a game, potential supporters, and it was the only way to play the game in any way, shape or form. At $10 a key, it was all too easy to just keep clicking 'buy' for anyone who made an awesome post, who bothered to ask me for one.

Chris could have just given me those keys -- I'm sure he dispensed plenty to friends and big supporters during the original closed beta. But that wasn't the point. I felt the game was worth (easily) $10 per player.

I do not feel The Awakening beta is worth $30 per player. It's too fragile, too volatile, too desperately in need of targeted, considered feedback.

And each time GGG makes it easier for people to buy their way in, they're reducing their chances of maintaining the integrity of such feedback. Global's gone to shit because people are just joining without reading the appropriate closed beta forum; bugs are being reported to the wrong boards and, worst of all, people are just *bitching* about features and changes instead of giving balanced feedback. Basically, we're inundated with people who have no fucking idea how to behave in a closed beta.

That all said, more money for GGG always makes me happy. I must be one of the few people in the world that wouldn't be entirely sad if they just sold out and never had to work a day in their lives again. They've genuinely earned that in my eyes.

But we all know they never will.

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Charan wrote:

people are just *bitching* about features and changes

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Charan wrote:

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Umyx wrote:

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Charan wrote:

I can't afford or justify mass-buying packs costing 30 bucks

But you were able to blow $12,500 on a Ruler of Wraeclast pack.

I also have a $70k car and a $600k townhouse, would you rather I drive a ten year old Corolla and live in a $500 a month ghetto apartment in Delafuckingnoware? Because I've done both. For years.

This isn't about what I can or could afford -- it's about justification.

I did buy over $1k worth of beta keys for people in the original Closed Beta. That was totally justified -- I was bringing new people to a game, potential supporters, and it was the only way to play the game in any way, shape or form. At $10 a key, it was all too easy to just keep clicking 'buy' for anyone who made an awesome post, who bothered to ask me for one.

Chris could have just given me those keys -- I'm sure he dispensed plenty to friends and big supporters during the original closed beta. But that wasn't the point. I felt the game was worth (easily) $10 per player.

I do not feel The Awakening beta is worth $30 per player. It's too fragile, too volatile, too desperately in need of targeted, considered feedback.

And each time GGG makes it easier for people to buy their way in, they're reducing their chances of maintaining the integrity of such feedback. Global's gone to shit because people are just joining without reading the appropriate closed beta forum; bugs are being reported to the wrong boards and, worst of all, people are just *bitching* about features and changes instead of giving balanced feedback. Basically, we're inundated with people who have no fucking idea how to behave in a closed beta.

That all said, more money for GGG always makes me happy. I must be one of the few people in the world that wouldn't be entirely sad if they just sold out and never had to work a day in their lives again. They've genuinely earned that in my eyes.

But we all know they never will.

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Charan wrote:

No, you didn't miss it. You just thought you'd try to use it for your own little agenda.

Consider yourself neutered. Don't expect a response unless you display a MASSIVE increase in ability regarding seeing past your own nose.

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Umyx wrote:

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Charan wrote:

No, you didn't miss it. You just thought you'd try to use it for your own little agenda.

Consider yourself neutered. Don't expect a response unless you display a MASSIVE increase in ability regarding seeing past your own nose.

Check your ego, man. You don't intimidate me at all. You nurse on GGG's teat on the daily, so I'll let that speak for itself. Plebeian.