Giving out the Midnight blunderbuss to TwitchCon San Diego's attendees is wrong.

@biter-wylie It makes a BIG difference.

When a company uses in game assets as an exclusive bonus to make you buy their product and then suddently decides to give that bonus for free later at some event you have to ask yourself : What kind of company am I dealing with and is that legal?

It does make a difference if they give the code for free to all when they previously used it as a marketing point to sell 3rd party products for real money.

And it's unfortunate that some people paid for it.

Have we been lied to? Yes most likely.
Is that legal? Certainly not.

Who cares! It’s some valueless pixels attached to a game you will have forgotten about in 6 months.

You should check ebay prices.
You should also check the price of the hard drive that this in-game asset was sold with.

@callmebackdraft a dit dans Giving out the Midnight blunderbuss to TwitchCon San Diego's attendees is wrong. :

@dotcomrobots you cant sue them for false advertising since the product you purchased was the limited edition external hard drive, that they bundled it with the cosmetic code doesnt change any of that.

Yes it stated exclusive, but it didnt state exclusive with this product only.

Here are various defintions of the word exclusive for you:

"Not allowing something else; incompatible.
Not accompanied by others; single or sole.
Complete; undivided.
An exclusive right or privilege, as to market a product."

I think the sole definition of the word "Exclusive" literally destroyed your arguments up there.

The product is still falsely advertised.
A very questionable move from Rare.

Your post just gave me the info...
I left Twitter 6-8 months ago and I'm kind of angry that Rare isn't communicating in other ways to tell players about this kind of giveaway.

I would want one as well...that'd be nice but yea things are as they are.

To use some pirate lingo...its Bad Form.

They have done very few items that required a cash purchase to get...The Midnight Blunderbuss and the Ferrymen set to be specific. (I don't count the Merc set because most people had to buy XBox Gold time anyways).

If the plan was to release this stuff for free down the road then that should have been stated from the beginning. (This was stated about all convention drops so why not mention it about the paid purchases too).

Currently they are offering a limited sail cosmetic with the purchase of the Sea of Theives RPG game. If this is their plan going forward I'll just wait for reviews for the RPG before I consider buying because I'm sure the sails will just drop at some convention 6 months later.

@hombre You are literrally mixing up the fees related to a 3rd party event that gathers multiples developers, twitch streamers and various partners to the price of a product that has been badly marketed and wasn't made or produced by Twitch AT ALL. How did you come up to the conclusion that the Blunderbuss was part of the TwitchCon fee?

Use your brain a little more please and stop using your imagination.

On top of that the issue here is the marketing strategy and the way the product has been promoted in the first place. Most people here don't obviously understand what the term exclusive means. Open a dictionnary.

The Twitchcon event price has no link with the value of the blunderbuss either. This is your imagination working here in a failed attempt to give them reason.

exclusive simply says in this case “you cant just buy it in the game” and only available to people who have gained access to it by using a cosmetic code

Your imagination is once again defining things. Exclusive means what it means.
Inform yourself about marketing terms and the way they are put to a product. You can't use "Exclusive" like it's nothing especially when that item is tied to a specific sale and sold on par with that item only since 2 years now.
If you don't understand that I suggest you to take a marketing course.

You bought a limited edition hard drive and received the advertised hard drive, you didnt buy the cosmetic code it was just a free giveaway at the time of sale of the hard drive that they tied in with the hard drive.

The in-game asset is a marketing argument for the consumer to buy the product. Because of this exclusivity, a lot of people will want to pushase it. It's as simple.

The term exclusive isn't used for the HDD itself. It is specifically used for the in game asset to define it's unique availability through that HDD product EXCLUSIVELY.

A definition is usually supposed to be paired eith a context And what do you know:

Nowhere did it state “Exclusively obtainable with this hard drive”. It said “now with code for the exclusive midnight blunderbuss”, but be my guest and take it to court, i wont hold my breath while you spend a few months salaries on a prematurly lost case

You are over complicating this. The word's definition is far enough to define limits, availabilty and terms. No need for an extra notification such as what you said. "Exclusive" is not a 2019 term especially in the marketing field.

Who told you I want to take this to court? I said I want to spread this information because I strongly doubt that this is legal by informing the relevant authorities.

It's just a video game gun. And it's still exclusive. I can't get it.

It's just a video game gun. And it's still exclusive. I can't get it.

No it's not exclusive anymore.

I can see your upset and I can to a point see your point, but please take it easy on other members of the forum, please don't direct your anger at them when they choose to disagree.

No anger in my posts.
Just a firm position.

@callmebackdraft Oh and btw.. I have the official redeem card code and this is written on it : "Midnight Blunderbuss - Game Drive for Xbox Exclusive"

I think it's clear enough now :)

@callmebackdraft It's literally written on the redeem card xD

"Midnight Blunderbuss - Game Drive for Xbox Exclusive"

At this point I can't help you understand more than that.

@dotcomrobots said in Giving out the Midnight blunderbuss to TwitchCon San Diego's attendees is wrong.:

@callmebackdraft It's literally written on the redeem card xD

"Midnight Blunderbuss - Game Drive for Xbox Exclusive"

At this point I can't help you understand more than that.

I feel like you are taking the quote out of context and think you should provide some photos to back up what you saying. Only photos of the card I can find do not contain what you quoted.

The way you have it quoted doesn't make much sense, especially toward your own argument. I read it as mentioning two separate things, like tags. This is the Midnight Blunderbus, and this is the Game Drive for storing Xbox Exclusive titles.

This is not a big deal. There should be special rewards for people who do special things, like attend gaming conventions, purchase Sea of Thieves hardware, etc. I don't have a problem with this. If items like these weren't rare and exclusive, they'd be valueless.

@dotcomrobots said in Giving out the Midnight blunderbuss to TwitchCon San Diego's attendees is wrong.:

It's just a video game gun. And it's still exclusive. I can't get it.

No it's not exclusive anymore.

I dont have access to it. So its exclusive for me. Brain seems to work.

At the time of that the HDD's were manufactured the Midnight Blunderbuss was exclusive to the HDD.

Rightly or wrongly that is no longer the case but in order to make a legal argument you need to be able to clearly state what specific laws have been broken and how and those arguments need to be made to a relevant legal authority.

The exclusivity of products changing isn't something that is new so there is likely considerable legal history on such matters. An example of this would be during the last console hardware cycle (XBox 360, PS3, Wii). Microsoft had a number of games or game content that was referred to as 'XBox Exclusive' which later came out on other systems, for Microsoft to be able to call something exclusive they only ensured that it was exclusive for a minimum of 3 months and this was deemed acceptable as at the time those products, regardless of whether they were physical or digital, were exclusive and when that exclusivity period ended those products were no longer marketed as such.

Regardless if the OP or anyone else feels that Microsoft and or Rare have acted illegally in this matter then this forum is probably not the best place to further that. In the first instance contacting Microsoft or Rare directly would probably be more appropriate, should that fail then escalating the matter to the appropriate authority such as an ombudsman would probably be good course of action.

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lol things are getting spicy over here ^^

Let me back up things with some pictures fellow over protective Sea of Thieves fans :D

First here is the front of the HDD Package.

As you can read the Blunderbuss is an exclusive item..
But what does exclusive item means in that particular case? Does it mean that I can't have it in-game? Or does that mean that I have to buy the HDD to have it only? Or maybe it's both?

What i'm sure about though is that no time period and no offer expiration date is mentionned both on the package and the redeem card making this offer permanent.

Now let's see the Redeem Card itself...

Wow... look it's written there : "Game Drive for Xbox Exclusive"

Well I think we got it folks. they literally marketed the Blunderbuss to be exclusively tied to the HDD SoT limited edition product! Making this item unique to those who hold this wonderful limited edtion Hard Drive! xD

So at first, with that HDD front package, YOU COULD doubt about the meaning of exclusive here, but now that the card inside both confirms what type of exclusivity it is and don't define a precise timeframe for this EXCLUSIVE offer then I think it's clear that both the HDD and the "bonus" in-game asset were falsely advertised.

I'm not sure if you guys understand how all this works and if you are willing to understand it, but it's okay.

You have the right to protect you favorite video game franchise against everything, even when clues are given 1 by 1 to destroy your arguments 1 by 1.

You have the right to stay in the wrong, and keep pretending that the TwitchCon fees are high enough to cover the expense of such an item and it's "okay" to make things exclusive and then turn back on your own fanbase later on.

You have the right to pretend that it is still exclusive to you and only you because you still don't have it therefore it's still exclusive.. (that argument was the best I have to admit it)

People... You are all free to be left in the dark, to all be hyped while others feel cheated! It's aaaalll good. Go ahead. Jump on the occasion! The scam.. umm.. the offer won't last long!

Now I have wasted enough time here explaining logical things. I have that in-game asset since a while anyway and bought it back in the day where codes were cheap and when all of that ebay farce didn't exist... :)

I'll sink you later in the seas, and i'll meet you all back here to read your outstanding rant about it.

Cheers.