Age of Conan

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Man up and say what you mean and mean what you say.  Trying to sneak an extra $5 out of potential ly interested subscribers is beyond cheap; its deceptive.  Chalk another point of interest in the Warhammer column for me.

Originally posted by Cik_Asalin

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Man up and say what you mean and mean what you say.  Trying to sneak an extra $5 out of potential ly interested subscribers is beyond cheap; its deceptive.  Chalk another point of interest in the Warhammer column for me.

 

 

And...charging for 10 days added gametime and 3 days headstart is cheating....how again?

Originally posted by singsofdeath

Originally posted by Cik_Asalin

http://www.massively.com/category/new-titles

Man up and say what you mean and mean what you say.  Trying to sneak an extra $5 out of potential ly interested subscribers is beyond cheap; its deceptive.  Chalk another point of interest in the Warhammer column for me.

 

 

And...charging for 10 days added gametime and 3 days headstart is cheating....how again?

Heh your common sense isnt going to get through to him.

Originally posted by singsofdeath

Originally posted by Cik_Asalin

http://www.massively.com/category/new-titles

Man up and say what you mean and mean what you say.  Trying to sneak an extra $5 out of potential ly interested subscribers is beyond cheap; its deceptive.  Chalk another point of interest in the Warhammer column for me.

 

 

And...charging for 10 days added gametime and 3 days headstart is cheating....how again?

Isn't that a perk of a pre-order though? To get in early and/or an item?

Not cheating, genius. No one said anything about cheating, to the bright (cough) poster above.   Nice spin-attempt.

I wouldnt call it sneaking $5 out of you. As downloading the 12gig's worth of data needed to install the 26gig client is going to end up costing whoever offers you the preorder download more then $5 in bandwidth costs.

Somebody must have lost their tin-foil hat.

Not a good a deal as POTBS had offered for sure, which included a headstart and some preorder items at no additional cost. A pity that game kinda fell from grace though. But at least is was a little less interested in fees for every little thing.

This has been known about for a long time its no secret. Wasn't one bad post / comment under that column on massively either.

Originally posted by Thomas2006

I wouldnt call it sneaking $5 out of you. As downloading the 12gig's worth of data needed to install the 26gig client is going to end up costing whoever offers you the preorder download more then $5 in bandwidth costs.

Thats laughable.  You think other potential customers, 3 days later, are paying an additional $5 to download.  Nope.

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

This has been known about for a long time its no secret. Wasn't one bad post / comment under that column on massively either.

 

If it was widely known, I wouldnt have posted it.  Obviously if they wanted it to be widely known, they would not have hidden this in 'small-print' in an attempt to bait potential customers into thinking that what was once considered a very short-term, non operationally harmful perk, is an attempt to take another $5 that wouldnt otherwise be gotten for downloading the game electronically a few days later.  The subscription should clearly tack another $5 on the front-end of subscribing rather than attempting to bury it.