Re: Emergency Meeting S8 : Where is MY anniversary gift ?
@asukojo Good one as always. Didn’t even mind that there’s no climax due to player resistance here except for the not liking BLM icon.
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- @Koochi-Q Twitter is absolutely rancid about that badge 😩.
@asukojo I dunno, I see people praising Respawn for the 2 event packs and the 10 normal ones but like. Is that really, really, honest to God where we're starting? Praising them for free packs, 2 of which pertain to the anniversary event, and 10 of which that will most likely give nothing at all?
Like if I ran a near billion dollar franchise, and we're coming up on the 2 year anniversary after players have patiently waited for us to fix game breaking issues (but we haven't), and we say we want to improve the relationship between us and the community (but we haven't done anything outside of one AMA), AND also while we keep touting that we're not out to milk our player-base for money (despite the overwhelming evidence that points otherwise), AND the fact that they're 18 dollar recolors, I'd've been like:
"Hey boys! We really gotta slather it on heavy if we wanna profit on our player-base over the next few years. Let's give 'em 12 event packs, AND 1000 Apex Coins, AND 4800 crafting metals. What better way to show "we care" than giving out a ton of free crap, but continuing to do the bare minimum for the rest of the game! Bribing people never fails!"
Plus like, Crafting Metals and Apex Coins have literally 0 value, they're not rooted in a physical medium, they're just arbitrarily priced. You don't lose money by giving them out freely. Especially when it's such a meager amount compared to how many 2400 / 1200 CM skins there are in game, not to mention the legendary holosprays and crap.
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@pastaclown But by pre-emptively mentioning moderation you are discussing moderation. You've activated my trap card, I've got you now!
Jokes aside, a lot of this falls into politics, and we already have a graveyard of posts on the BLM badge subject. I like Asujoko's absolutely accurate dev conversations, and we don't need another thread derailing.Respawn: Happy 2 years Anniversary guys , since we're so close to Chinese New Year, we will be wearing RED customs and you will get 2 of them !
Community: So Next year, we will get 3 ?
Respawn: No promise, but why not !
@EA_David Gah! I've been had! Yeah I'll just pre-emptively edit it then. I was looking for the "don't be political" rule but I couldn't find it, where's that at? Is it like a stickied post somewhere or just something that y'all've collectively agreed on?
- @asukojo Wait is that why the recolors are red? I thought it was because that's Apex's colors lol. Idk, like with this past year's holiday events I feel like they're mailing it in on the skins. It's your 2 year anniversary & you couldn't come up with anything new???
Also Mirage's line about the boat but no friends hit hard lol. I hope that's not really true!
Also was the "Wilhem" scream necessary? LMAO! CEO : Guys , guys, guys, what is the 50% discount people screaming about ??
QA: I've NO IDEA, We didn't discuss that in design and previous meeting , NOT MY FAULT !
Marketing: Oppss, we come out in the last minute since it doesn't make sense to craft recolor with full crafting material.
CEO: Make sense, but why you didn't ask for my approval ?
Marketing: Sorry boss, we slip it in the printing press release, and tell dev to put it but forget to tell you and QA guys to test !
CEO: Oh MY GOD ! This's so embarrassing. How to do now ?
Dev: No worries boss, the price is on the server, we can fix it quickly......done
CEO: Great, you save us once again, this's time is not my fault.
Marketing, since this's your mistake, you need to make up something.
Marketing: Hmmm, I would just say this was initially plan for future event but we're giving it now.
CEO: Great escuse that always works but is that means we're going to get another recolor event ?
Marketing: Yes, boss, coming next month, March 2nd, it's called Chaos Theory, we will bring back Iron Crown recolor !
CEO: Cool, perfect, we dodge the bullet once again !
We become so good at this, LOL.
- @asukojo They picked the 2nd worse Mirage skin to recolor. I like the Bloodhound, Wraith & Rev skins tho.
CEO: Our bait is a success, we able to do minimum work and get maximum profit.
Marketing, YES, they like 2 free packs, 50% discount and they willing to spend their precious craft for recolor and bought some package deal!
Dev: This time we don't see any pushback regarding LTM, they like the idea as well.
QA: Let's do this again on next recolor event.
CEO: Agree. It's getting late now and tonight is Chinese New Year Eve,
Happy Chinese New Year guys !
@Koochi-Q I've never been to Peking! 😃
Marketing: Boss, people want us to extend the event one more week.
CEO: Chinese new year ussually bring big rain and flood back in Asia. But in US, we got snow strom and freezing temperature !
Marketing: Yeah, Texas people are caught off guard, they don't have snow plow, don't know how to drive in snow, power outage in freezing temperature, pipe burst, food shortage, water shortage but despite desperate time, they still remember about Apex free anniversary packs!!
CEO: I'm impressed how much they love and hate us at the same time.
Marketing: We have so much issue with S-8 stability, lag, disconnect, crashes, etc
CEO: Let's extend it, no big deal.
Dev: Updating end date on the server , DONE !
CEO: Cool, our next event will right after this one, March 9th, back to back. Enjoy your 1 week break.
- @asukojo wait , did they really extend it ???
yesterday I was feeling so bad as I didn't finish all the event challenges @maximas1986 Why you haven't finish the event challenges ?? Are you in Texas as well ?
Yes, they push a client patch this morning so you see the event expired 1 week from today.
I was expecting server patch but seems there's inconsistency so they push client patch as well.
- @maximas1986 The long ones you have the rest of the season.
