Post by Morreion on Apr 16, 2014 20:38:07 GMT -5
Funcom yanks mankini costume from The Secret World (Massively)
Players who logged in this week to The Secret World might have noticed that there was a new male costume option in the game store: a neon green mankini that covered very, very little. However, those who purchased said mankini discovered the costume gone today, as Funcom pulled the April Fools' Day outfits from characters' dressing rooms, refunded the points spent on them, and gave each previous owner a free mystery box.
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Funcom management feels strongly that the Mankini outfit goes against what The Secret World intellectual property (IP) is all about and they did not want this item to stay in the game permanently. We all agree on the fact that The Secret World should be the best urban contemporary horror MMO out there, and they want to make sure that everything we bring into the game stays true to the setting and the atmosphere we have created – however it is safe to say that there is sometimes disagreement on nuance. For that reason, Management made the decision to pull it from the game entirely.
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Beyond the fact that the skimpy male item was removed and the modest female one wasn't (folks have had plenty to say about that!), players paid for the item only to have it taken away. Being refunded bonus points, even ones that don't expire, is not acceptable. Who can blame players for feeling cheated and upset when they use real cash for an item but are just given fake currency in return? Even earned Funcom points converted into bonus points can no longer be used in any other game except TSW. I believe that players can petition customer service to have their actual cash refunded, but it shouldn't be on players' heads to fix management's mistake.
Players who logged in this week to The Secret World might have noticed that there was a new male costume option in the game store: a neon green mankini that covered very, very little. However, those who purchased said mankini discovered the costume gone today, as Funcom pulled the April Fools' Day outfits from characters' dressing rooms, refunded the points spent on them, and gave each previous owner a free mystery box.
The Secret World's Joel Bylos takes on mankinigate (Massively)
Funcom management feels strongly that the Mankini outfit goes against what The Secret World intellectual property (IP) is all about and they did not want this item to stay in the game permanently. We all agree on the fact that The Secret World should be the best urban contemporary horror MMO out there, and they want to make sure that everything we bring into the game stays true to the setting and the atmosphere we have created – however it is safe to say that there is sometimes disagreement on nuance. For that reason, Management made the decision to pull it from the game entirely.
Chaos Theory: Funcom flubbed it with The Secret World's mankinigate (Massively)
Beyond the fact that the skimpy male item was removed and the modest female one wasn't (folks have had plenty to say about that!), players paid for the item only to have it taken away. Being refunded bonus points, even ones that don't expire, is not acceptable. Who can blame players for feeling cheated and upset when they use real cash for an item but are just given fake currency in return? Even earned Funcom points converted into bonus points can no longer be used in any other game except TSW. I believe that players can petition customer service to have their actual cash refunded, but it shouldn't be on players' heads to fix management's mistake.
