Marcian Tobay

*Begins emptying bank account*

So, this clearly needs to happen. My question to YOU, though, is what would it take to make this a reality? If you are interested in doing this a commission, contact me. If you just flat out want to make it an artistic reality, go for it.

Just easily the most inspirational idea. Ever.

FIE to your logic.

That, or give me time to mull over this counterpoint.

But I did, I tell you! I did, truly and sincerely!



The word "Idea" only had one "A". I was on the subforum page listed above and clicked on it. Rather than taking me to the thread, it turned the link into editable text. I added the "A" and then clicked elsewhere. It flitted away, like a fairy or a hummingbird.

You have a bin for that!?

Fair enough. My word choice may have been off. My original and core message was that this feels like a disservice to people that already bought it under the false assumption that doing so was the way to maximize preorder goodness.

(I'm not really sure the difference between a pre-order and pre-purchase. Anyone that feels compelled to correct me, please include an explanation.)

I used to work at a video game company. You'd be amazed what little say the developers can have in decisions like this.

I hate it, too. It was a special phrase I had tucked away in a molded and stenching chest to be opened and smeared across something I dislike, leaving it in a state of dripping disbelief that I would associate it with something so disingenuous, cynical, and foul.

It has had its single use for which it was hatched into this reality and shall now slink back into a non-existence substantiated only by campfire stories whispered, flashlight in face, into the white dress shirts sitting on decidedly non-untamed wild as part of a corporate team building exercise.

Even though I don't like this at all, fair being fair the advantage only lasts until level 17. At that point, it's evened out by being just as good as the other SO.

I don't mind the Veteran Reward advantages. By the time you get to the ones that offer a true upper hand, the players have been here for so many years, it's reasonable to argue that they deserve some special treatment.

This is the inverse. A subversion. A flip. A flop. A double pits to chesty.

Your loyal players are the ones that didn't get this preorder. They're the ones that bought this the day or week it came out. So here we are, posting angrily and listening to Family Guy when we should be doing their job filling in Excel sheets. Who's fault is that? It's MINE, I tell you. I LIKE Family Guy and find Seth McFarlene's voice soothing. I don't even mind that it has pervaded my posting so much that it's undermined a very serious and very angry rant.

Let's spam.

I got a lot of Rep both was for this, including enough red to drop a bar.

My favorite was when I posted that people that post rep anonymously make me temporarily paranoid. Someone gave me red rep and signed it "MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA". Had to respect that.

Looks... can be deceiving.

Indeed.

I imagine it's going to open with:

"Long have people obeyed the rule of this woman that so totally isn't doing her grandfather why would you think that, you pervert?

A long time fan of Arrested Development, Dominatrix was first discovered twenty years ago..."

I shoulda read the new laws!

*Gawks at GG for 28 seconds before being taken away forever*

Darn.

Somewhere out there is an official report that reads "Distinguishing Marks: Gazungas ahoy".

Such zany people, the Praetorians.

Yeah, that's something I don't ever want to see rise.

We also need jiggle, age, push to left, push to right, as well as temperature.

Screw it. I'm not going to be happy until we get an open letter from the Dead or Alive people asking us to please tone it down and "think of the children".