You walk into a shop, and buy something, for the purpose of this thread let’s say you buy an Xbox.
The next day, or the next week, whatever, you walk past the same shop and see that they are now doing a 20% off sale, and/or that the Xbox is now being sold with an extra game as part of a special package.
Pray tell, what would happen if you walked into said shop and said something along the lines of
“Ohai, I bought an Xbox here yesterday/last week and I see you are now selling the same Xbox for 20% and with an extra game – any chance you can give me 20% back and give me the game?”
Let me tell you what would happen.
The manager or other member of staff would politely apologise and say that, because you bought the item before the sale, you were not entitled to 20% of your money back and the free game. Then, after you’d left the store, they’d go out back and say to their store colleagues “Guys, you would not believe what this idiot customer just…”.
Then they’d all laugh at you.
Understanding that this is how sales work in the real world, I cannot FOR THE LIFE OF ME, understand why so many of you are crying that you are not getting a wizard hat.
The most common ‘argument’, if you can even call it that, is that, we are here and have supported this game, thus, we should get the wizard hat, not some guy who buys the game in the sale.
When you really think about this, this line of thought is absolutely absurd and completely defeats the purpose of the sales pitch.
The whole point of this ‘promo’ is that it entices people who were maybe on the fence about buying the game, to actually buy it. It makes these people think
“Well, I was thinking about getting the game, might aswell buy it now seeing as I can get a limited edition unique hat.”
Let me tell you something, if Anet were to pitch the sale saying
“Buy the game now and get this free Wizard Hat that everybody in the game also has”, it would not be successful at all.
I can only conclude that this train of thought is a product of this obscene self-entitlement generation that currently plagues the Earth.
To think, for a second, that you are entitled to this Wizard Hat on the grounds that you have played this game for however many weeks… Anet doesn’t owe you anything.
You paid them the 60 bucks and they gave you the game you paid 60 bucks for, along with free content that costs thousands of dollars to develop.
It’s like you buying the Wii U on the day of release for full price and then get butt hurt when 3 month down the line they are selling them at reduced prices and with game bundles. You are not entitled to the cheaper Wii U and the free games, just because you bought it and have supported the console since launch.
TL;DR
Use some god kitten common sense. And get over yourselves.
