Dear Costa,
Here's your reply to some of the many 1-star feedbacks put on the T-Shirts on Amazon (not to me directly, but these have circulated around plenty).
Herein lies the issue my dear Costa-
We, as human-being consumers- we feel for ya. We're not evil people. But... while you are sad about how your t-shirt campaign got trolled by "angry tankers"... why don't you take a minute to think about what your company (again, not you directly) did to us? They took trolling to a whole new level that went right into our wallets. Let me help by summarizing, since you are in the marketing department.
1. Tanks that we spent years developing had all the equipment just taken right off them overnight. We then received a "new, improved equipment system" but were given literally a fraction (most agree around 1/10th) of the amount of compensation we need in your new "Spare Parts" currency to re-equip the tanks we already owned and had already fully equipped. So if we had a garage of 100 fully-equipped tanks, we now have a garage of maybe 10 fully-equipped tanks.
2. On top of this, tanks that we paid real, hard-earned money for (think $50 for a Type 59, or equal to 2.5 of your T-shirts), were not even given full equipment... although premium tanks were always considered "maxed out". So we purchased virtual tanks for money that we can't even equip now. Sure, they didn't come with equipment before- but the difference is we didn't have to buy that equipment with special currencies and timers.
3. To add insult to injury, the amount of these Spare Parts that we can earn by playing the game like normal is just plain dismal. It will take literally 3,600 games earning 50 spare parts to equip a single Tier X tank (really, since it is a 50% chance, it is 7,200 games... but at this point, what's the point of even counting since that is more games than most people have their entire careers?). Which clearly means that WG will plan to sell these Spare Parts to us in the future for more, real money. I'm not even going to go into the whole debate on timers.
So Costa, I'm really sorry your t-shirt launch (which BTW not only cost you nothing but you actually got paid for) is getting trolled; but why don't you take a second and put the shoes on the other foot- we paid hundreds of dollars of our hard earned money only to have our entire game be turned upside-down in one update... what would you do? Would you just quietly accept that you had $200 or more literally stolen in a video game and just be ok with that?
If so, I'd highly suggest you offer another shirt for sale that refunds us tankers $200 and in exchange we give you back our Blitz accounts and call it "even". I will gladly give that shirt a 5-Star review.
Thank you,
A Blitz Player
Edited by BIitzkriegX, 11 May 2017 - 03:28 PM.