Mercenary Set - Friends Play Free

I second this!

The amount of backlash this has generated is immense, not only is the forum in an uproar, so is Reddit and their twitter(They are blocking people by the dozens by the looks of it, because of the hate they are getting).
And they are unusually quiet today, not a peep has been heard from them.
I think they know they messed up and are trying to figure out what to do to recover from this.
But the only way they can recover, is to give everyone who played during the FPF week the Outfit.
Anything less than that and they are going to have a lot of unhappy customers, myself amongst them.

@danish-crusader Youre Right. Rare must do something and i dont think that rare will ignore this. Everyone who played during the Event will get this Mercenary Set, and then everyone will be happy. And we have a cosmetic set that fits to the ship design.

@captn-crushem You might not be informed of this, but all players who used one of those Friends Play Free codes, got a free Mercenary Outfit.
Only the ones that used the codes, and there was no warning or heads up about this. It is one of the rarest Outfits in the game due to how extremely limited it was back when it was promoted.

I would have bought the promotion back when it was there, but that would mean I had to get someone in a promoted area to buy it for me and ship it, which is not an easy thing to do without the risk of being cheated.

@captn-crushem The Cosmetic Set. Rare give this to all players that redeemed a Friends Play Free code. And not to us that promoted the game...

@urihamrayne Im german. So im not the best in english. So if you dont unterstand something; ask.

@captn-crushem That's the one yes, except they changed the eyepatch for some reason.
I really want that outfit, wanted it since I first saw it.
Ugh, I am so very annoyed about this whole situation! I have been looking to buy a code for it since that time, but every time I look it has either just been sold out, not in my area or somewhere VERY shifty for a massive amount of money.

@triheadedmonkey Oh, ups. Okey

@urihamrayne Okey. I made a mistake with asking for a upvote. I didnt know that. But as you can see the most people understand my text. And i dont can complain it better because my english skills

@urihamrayne Yea, but with cosmetics you can show what kind of pirate you are. And Cosmetics is a big way to use your Gold

I strongly agree with you. I hope Rare will fix it.

So... I bringed 13 players to play this game, one of them 2 days before the announce of the Friends play free event, and now they're letting players that dont supported the game at all and refused to play it even after his popularity rise before christmas, have one of the most exclusive sets that, and everyone should remember, was tied to a real world money exclusive promo?

I can only laugh, we've all been pirated XD (and hell, I had the mercenary set since the second month, the only stuff ingame I dont have are the Ferryman and the Banana sets...)

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You guys are getting over 50 new cosmetic items in the new mega update, yet you find it in you to quarrel over a singular set of cosmetics, "the great Rare BETRAYAL", more like the great community entitlement and misguided outrage. Had you guys had similar passion to complain about the quests in this game, perhaps the mega update would've come in 2018.

First things first: you dont know whats comming in the mega update. If we look the last year, maybe they release one or two cosmetic sets, and run away... the second part is that everyone complains about quest and other stuff, but if op dont, that doesn't make this "promo fail" less bad for the loyal customers.

Rare get attacked hard after Cursed Crews Barrel 2-0 debacle (with reason) because they didn't communicate enough, and now they've fallen in the same error (after they told that they were going to be more transparent in the future) telling about this promo AFTER the event.

They get attacked too after the first wave of cosmetics being tied to exclusive events and promos, and they anounced they were going to open to all people the exclusive cosmetics after a delay because they don't wanted the ebay speculative market, and now they commit a similar error opening an exclusive set only for a chosen portion of the playerbase (the less loyal, indeed). Should I fear that I'm not going to get the Spinal Figurehead if Rare changes their plans another time? This kind of stuff makes customers to dont trust in your old words, actually, and thats the real problem.

@amancebacabras Yes. But i think / hope Rare will do something and does not ignore this.

@tenebreate They've ignored a lot of problems, so who actually knows...

@urihamrayne You seem a person that usually miss the points ;), so I'm going to explain again the problem: they have done with this, stuff they said they were never going to do again. Is not about the set (that I said I have and I think is not a problem of the set coming back), is about they cheating the community.

@urihamrayne I've explained you the exact 2 situations where they said this thing was not going to happen. I've explained you too that the set, for me, is not actually important, and I share with you that what nearly all the people only want are clothes and don't complain for the real problem that, as I've explained (I think I'm repeating myself too much XD), is Rare doing something they said they were never going to do again. If you could, you would see that we're arguing while thinking that this wave of complains about the set is a nonsense, but I'm complaining not for clothes, but for the FORM of what Rare did with an old and a recent promo, and the lost of trust in what they've said about other things to come in the future.

In the other hand, you expect good points, while the only things you talk about is strawman, ad hominem and red herring arguments. Maybe, you should give the same respect you expect from others, to them...

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@amancebacabras I don't expect anything good coming from you

Have I stole you your ice-cream or something? Another ad hominem argument? Surprise, but you're not as mature as you think...

In your topic, was in an streaming (wich I'm not going to look for you because you showed only disrespect, if you want to see it look it for yourself), where Joe Neate, just after the E3 items were announced and Craig Duncan tweeted about the topic about time-limited and event exclusives, said that in the future they were going to make all the exclusive items work like that because they heard the feedback about people making money with the codes and they dont wanted that black market. Just after that, they released at Comic Con the Huntress Figurehead that worked like this. And, despite the E3 items are not "open" in-game, at least everyone could opt for their promos for watching stuff in mixer.

But I don't know why I'm telling you this, because you're not going to accept any info that comes from me, true?...

@urihamrayne dijo en Mercenary Set - Friends Play Free:

You guessed it.

Really dude XD

So, you think Rare can lie and betray the community with impunity in what you think is acceptable? So you don't yet understand that this is not about ingame cosmetics but about REAL MONEY (because mercenary set was a cosmetic tied to a real money promo)? Do you find more important gameplay than your money and I'm who is the type of EA consumer?

Know what rare said they're not going to do never, just like this kind of thing? Payed DLCs and a Pay2Win system; could you trust that Rare is not going to show his middle finger to us all in new and interesting ways with that kind of changed plans, after this?

Oh, and the info I referred was not about time limited INGAME cosmetics such as barnacle or bonecrusher, but for the real world promos stuff like black dog or, you guessed it, mercenary, so the "some people want old cosmetics to comeback" only shows that you have reading compehension problems at this point. Some people (and I repeat, not me, but I can fully understand who) feel themselves cheated by this elitist promo at wich CURRENT players can't accede AFTER doing for Rare the job of recruiting the new customers.