Non Time Sepecific Chance to get Ebon Flintlock

You had 2 chances to get the flintlock pistol.
I missed the 1st stream because they did a poor job of letting players know about.
I watched the 2nd stream and received it.
No more chances to get it now.

The biggest problem I have with this whole process is that NOT everyone is available to watch a stream during a specific date and time. A common complaint I've heard is that a lot of people weren't available to watch the second stream including myself and like a lot of people I can't change my schedule on a dime to watch a stream. It especially doesn't help that the Stream was on a Weekday instead of a Weekend when more people are likely to have the time to spare. As to the first stream not a lot of people heard about it. I didn't even know there was a first stream until after the second one.
I don't take issue with the Black Dog Pack because you had forever to pre-order it and with the Mercenary Pack you had around a week to buy 3-months of Xbox Live to get it and there are still ways to get it. The Ferryman Pack, or Midnight Blunderbuss you can get them anytime with the purchase of a controller, or hard drive. While I didn't get the founder pack their was ample opportunity to join in the Alpha. With the Ebon Flintlock you had to be available to watch a stream during a specific date and time and not everyone has that convenience.

I dont feel that they should. If they do implement it, it would destroy The exclusivity that it gives to the people who watched, that's the point of exclusives. I personally would be upset that i made it in time and got the exclusive, only to have them destroy the value by releasing it again. You missed out, unfortunately that was the chance to get the pistol, and i dont want to be abrasive but i really hope they do not release the pistol again.

Also... all you really had to do was turn on the stream and you could click away and do other stuff.I was listening to the stream like a podcast almost, checking in at times to see whats happening

Definitely not, in my opinion. We need to let exclusives go - and I say this as a compulsive collector! But this isn't a 'collect em all' game, and more value is added by variety and rarity. I'd love to see someone with a hat I'd never seen before, I just have to fight the urge to want that hat!

But I do, however, think they need to do a lot more of these kind of things, to give more people (everyone) their own chance to unlock a different exclusive skin - but they should always be one-offs (or two-offs), and should stay that way.

The real magic of cosmetics will be when the game develops and we start seeing more and more time-limited and event-specific items, so you can tell something about a player when you see their equipment - even if what you can tell about them is that they managed to watch some random stream in the first week of release!

@moomintroll said in Non Time Sepecific Chance to get Ebon Flintlock:

Definitely not, in my opinion. We need to let exclusives go - and I say this as a compulsive collector! But this isn't a 'collect em all' game, and more value is added by variety and rarity. I'd love to see someone with a hat I'd never seen before, I just have to fight the urge to want that hat!

But I do, however, think they need to do a lot more of these kind of things, to give more people (everyone) their own chance to unlock a different exclusive skin - but they should always be one-offs (or two-offs), and should stay that way.

The real magic of cosmetics will be when the game develops and we start seeing more and more time-limited and event-specific items, so you can tell something about a player when you see their equipment - even if what you can tell about them is that they managed to watch some random stream in the first week of release!

Pretty much this... dont rerelease things people missed, im sorry but you missed it, and that's what makes the pistol "valuable without value". However if they would make it so there's more unique items all at a limited time that would be perfectly fine with me. Let's say, you have a first edition first gen charizard, then they just rerelease it again because not enough people felt they got it. Kinda destroys the specialness of seeing it. In my eyes things like temporary openings to get cosmetics would made better pirate legends outfits as wel, Because like fortnite you know if you see certain skins they will have a lot more experience anf fight to em. Just some thoughts.

I was just wondering this myself as i had seen a black everything EXCEPT a pistol.. Had no idea watching a stream was only way to get it.. would like another chance to get it some how now that i know i missed it. sucks to have all the black dog stuff minus one item that i wasn't aware of how to get in the first place..

I seem to recall reading that all these skins be timed exclusives, so ev'rything might open up in time to all.

Perhaps it will be in the form of a micro-transaction, but t'would not surprise me if Black Dog/Mercenary and all that appear in some form.

@mattydove74 said in Non Time Sepecific Chance to get Ebon Flintlock:

@dr1venbymonstrs said in Non Time Sepecific Chance to get Ebon Flintlock:

I dont feel that they should. If they do implement it, it would destroy The exclusivity that it gives to the people who watched, that's the point of exclusives. I personally would be upset that i made it in time and got the exclusive, only to have them destroy the value by releasing it again. You missed out, unfortunately that was the chance to get the pistol, and i dont want to be abrasive but i really hope they do not release the pistol again.

Also... all you really had to do was turn on the stream and you could click away and do other stuff.I was listening to the stream like a podcast almost, checking in at times to see whats happening

Yeah because no one has to work when Rare does a stream...

Hence the special exclusivity. I'm sorry you missed out. I'm not here to hate or cause a ruckus, but i just believe it would just take away something special for those of is who made the time and checked into the stream, wether or not you had time or knew about it.

@mattydove74 said in Non Time Sepecific Chance to get Ebon Flintlock:

@dr1venbymonstrs said in Non Time Sepecific Chance to get Ebon Flintlock:

@mattydove74 said in Non Time Sepecific Chance to get Ebon Flintlock:

@dr1venbymonstrs said in Non Time Sepecific Chance to get Ebon Flintlock:

I dont feel that they should. If they do implement it, it would destroy The exclusivity that it gives to the people who watched, that's the point of exclusives. I personally would be upset that i made it in time and got the exclusive, only to have them destroy the value by releasing it again. You missed out, unfortunately that was the chance to get the pistol, and i dont want to be abrasive but i really hope they do not release the pistol again.

Also... all you really had to do was turn on the stream and you could click away and do other stuff.I was listening to the stream like a podcast almost, checking in at times to see whats happening

Yeah because no one has to work when Rare does a stream...

Hence the special exclusivity. I'm sorry you missed out. I'm not here to hate or cause a ruckus, but i just believe it would just take away something special for those of is who made the time and checked into the stream, wether or not you had time or knew about it.

DR1VENbyMONSTRS: Hey boss, I know this short notice, but ummm, a mixer time was just posted for this super sweet ebon pistol and you know, it matches my Black Dawg outfit, so ur cool if I just abandon my responsibilities, so I can work on this outfit, cuz it's really important to me?

DR1VENbyMONSTRS's "Boss": Brah what are you talking about? [mod edited]

DR1VENbyMONSTRS: Oh yeah...

Exactly how that whent down.

Sorry that not all jobs are the same, and you cant have personal audio playing while you work. Thanks for your input.

@mattydove74 said in Non Time Sepecific Chance to get Ebon Flintlock:

@dr1venbymonstrs said in Non Time Sepecific Chance to get Ebon Flintlock:

@mattydove74 said in Non Time Sepecific Chance to get Ebon Flintlock:

@dr1venbymonstrs said in Non Time Sepecific Chance to get Ebon Flintlock:

@mattydove74 said in Non Time Sepecific Chance to get Ebon Flintlock:

@dr1venbymonstrs said in Non Time Sepecific Chance to get Ebon Flintlock:

I dont feel that they should. If they do implement it, it would destroy The exclusivity that it gives to the people who watched, that's the point of exclusives. I personally would be upset that i made it in time and got the exclusive, only to have them destroy the value by releasing it again. You missed out, unfortunately that was the chance to get the pistol, and i dont want to be abrasive but i really hope they do not release the pistol again.

Also... all you really had to do was turn on the stream and you could click away and do other stuff.I was listening to the stream like a podcast almost, checking in at times to see whats happening

Yeah because no one has to work when Rare does a stream...

Hence the special exclusivity. I'm sorry you missed out. I'm not here to hate or cause a ruckus, but i just believe it would just take away something special for those of is who made the time and checked into the stream, wether or not you had time or knew about it.

DR1VENbyMONSTRS: Hey boss, I know this short notice, but ummm, a mixer time was just posted for this super sweet ebon pistol and you know, it matches my Black Dawg outfit, so ur cool if I just abandon my responsibilities, so I can work on this outfit, cuz it's really important to me?

DR1VENbyMONSTRS's "Boss": Brah what are you talking about? [mod edited]

DR1VENbyMONSTRS: Oh yeah...

Exactly how that whent down.

Sorry that not all jobs are the same, and you cant have personal audio playing while you work. Thanks for your input.

Thanks for being a good sport

I may smoke, but i do have a job and work damn hard. Just have a laid back work area where im allowed to have nonwork related audio playing.

Like i said not here to cause a ruckus, just to voice my take on the sitch.

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@dr1venbymonstrs I'm not against exclusive. If I was I'd be moaning about the Founder Pack right now. I did fork over a hundred dollars for the Controller and Hard Drive to get the Ferryman Pack and Midnight Blunderbuss and I'd be a bit peeved if it became available later. I just think that Exclusives should have a time period longer than an 8 hour steam. The Founders had the Alpha period, the Black Dog was Pre-Order, Mercenary had 2 non consecutive weeks. Day One Patch had the first 2 and half weeks of the game and the new Launch Crew will be available for the next 2 weeks. If the Ebon Flintlock had a week long period to get I probably wouldn't be as salty about missing out as I am. Although if I had a week to get it I wouldn't have missed it. In my opinion it should be a reward for following Xbox on Mixer. Would be a good way to advertise the platform and get people to sign up.

1st chance: i never heard about that
2nd chance: impossible to me to participate at the streaming
3rd chance: ...I would like third chance me too.

I like the "limited time in the shop" method, like a launch crew skin for the eye of reach in the last patch.

@shamanmclamie

Yeah, i can see your point. I guess im just stubborn because its essentially the most exclusive item im game or so it seems at the moment lol my xbox just took a dump so it looks like I'll miss out on the launch crew eye of reach.

I know that this topic is very old but they said in today's stream that there be more chances to get this pistol so don't worry :-)