One thing though,
I'm not a sales person who needs to be motivated to sell.
I'm a paying customer who needs to be motivated to keep playing this game and renewing my subscription. And as such, I don't want to excluded from ANY new game content. To do so, is VERY bad for business
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Now, if we got other new ships in the game, for no extra charge, with new features and abilities, there might not be such a hub bub about this ship. It's new,fresh and unique in an otherwise new content vacuum, at least in this particular area .

The fact is this:
New ships have really not been added yet, (unless at the c store for more money)
So when this new ship comes along EVERYONE wants it....
We play to have fun. Things can get old quick, and new ships are fun, especially if they have neat new abilities that other in game ones don't have. When I'm doing the same dailies, over and over and OVER again, to get purple gear and such, I might get board with the older ships and may want to try out new ones. Especially if I don't find the current in game ones designs particularly pleasing.
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To be honest, If they came out with the Excelsior, or Nebula or whatever, for us first, rather than push a sales incentive, "reward" out, this might not have been such as big of an issue.
It's the lack of new content being the issue here. Using new content, as a carrot on a stick to get us to spend our limited free time, to do anything other than play this game, for which we've paid for, is what caused this "huge amount of controversy". At least in my opinion.

Unfortunately for your argument, we're not talking about smoking, heroin, or any other harmful substance. We're talking about a ship in a video game. And for that matter, no one actually NEEDS it, even the people who get it through the referral program. But in the context of this discussion, the point stands that the many outweigh the few. And most importantly, Cryptic has already shown that they agree with that

Yeah, but methinks the "children outnumbering the parents" clause fits perfectly.

And while we're talking context, the quotation you cited utilizes "needs" as the primary factor.

Just sayin'...

As well, you may not be familiar with either analogies or hyperbole as literary devices.

If only we were discussing the subject of children and parents you might have a point. But since we arent, you dont.

Oh look, you just repeated the point I made in my last post:

"We're talking about a ship in a video game. And for that matter, no one actually NEEDS it, even the people who get it through the referral program."

Good work!

Their great, arent they? Sadly, yours have nothing to do with what we're discussing

I said "literary," not "literal." HUGE difference.

There surely is, gold star for knowing that! Unfortunately for you, none of your analogies relate to this discussion, whether you mean them in a literary OR a literal sense. If you need more explanation, you tried to compare the majority of people who want the Gal-X added to the C-store to a group of children while comparing the minority of people who do not to parents. The reason that analogy fails is because parents make the ultimate decision regarding the wishes of their children, while the minority group who wants the Gal-X to remain "exclusive" has absolutely no deciding power(nor is any more mature than the other group, which is usually the case of parents).

The only way that analogy could make ANY sense if you were comparing ALL of the players(both those who want the Gal-X in the C-store and those who dont) to children, and Cryptic to the parents, since Cryptic is the one that makes the ultimate decision on this matter. However, Cryptic has already demonstrated their "parental" views: they will isten to what the majority of their "children" want. The only question at this point is how LONG it will be before the Gal-X makes its way into the C-store

[quote=The.Grand.Nagus;2783423]If only we were discussing the subject of children and parents you might have a point. But since we arent, you dont.



Oh look, you just repeated the point I made in my last post:

"We're talking about a ship in a video game. And for that matter, no one actually NEEDS it, even the people who get it through the referral program."

Good work!
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Funny thing, you're the one who brought up the word "needs" to begin with. I don't recall making the argument that ANY of us need a Galaxy-X, referrals or otherwise. You're a lot of fun and all, but a basic reasoning course might help.

Anyhoo, I only commented to put in my two cents (which is about all it's worth, admittedly), not to pour compost into your Corn Flakes (there I go again with analogies that have nothing to do with anything literal).

Yeah, well, literary devices are like jokes....they work a lot better when you don't have to explain them.

Very true, and like jokes they also only work when they make sense. Sadly, yours did not