(ANSWERED) 14 000 aquilas to new XBOX Store players, are you serious?

kolomijec · October 10, 2023, 12:58pm

IT LOOKS LIKE OUR BATTLE HAS COME TO AN END, BROTHERS ANS SISTERS!

YOU CAN SEE FATSHARK RESPONSE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE THREAD, UNDER THE RED ARROW (UPD3).

I’M ALSO DUPLICATING IT HERE:
https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/86360

And even though we didn’t win (we didn’t get aquilas), we fought honorably. And now any XBOX player, seeing an exclusive set of cosmetics for PC will be able to laugh at us.

It was an honor to stand together with you in this fight.

@kolomijec

I’m a little (very) shocked that those who buy WH40K Darktide in the Microsoft XBOX Store (from October 4 to October 18, 2023) - receive 14,000 aquilas (premium currency)**. Only the XBOX store, Steam does not participate in this «promotion».

** Owners of the Imperial Edition receive 14,000 (14 thousand) aquiles (And THIS IS IN ADDITION to 2,500 currency, which already comes with the package), and the owners of the regular (Launch Bundle) receive 9,300 aquils.

THINK ABOUT IT, 14,000 ACVILS IS EQUIVALENT TO 60$,
AND 9,000 ACVILS IS EQUIVALENT TO 40$!

You can check it yourself on the page in Microsoft XBOX Store. I also add the links:

So, you (Fatshark developers and marketers) are SERIOUSLY giving a huge amount of premium currency JUST for fun to new players. Not the veterans who have been with you since the beta. Not those who supported you with pre-orders, who played for a year, supported you while the game was raw. NO.

I, as a person who pre-ordered the maximum set (in Steam), as a person playing and giving feedback on the forum about bugs, as a person BUYING premium currency (7000 aquilas, 2400 aq., after 7000 aq. again and 2100 aq.***) for the sake of supporting your project, your game - I am deeply disappointed.

*** I can provide receipts for the purchase of the game (full pre-order price) and in-game purchases upon request to community managers.

I have lost all desire to play your game.

I just lost the desire to at least support this game in any way. And there is a desire (which I am holding back for now) to change my review of this game (despite everything that happened with it) from positive to negative.

I would like to hear so me kind of response from the officials here. For I am just disappointed. @FatsharkCatfish @FatsharkJulia @FatsharkLev @FatsharkSeptSis @FatsharkQuickpaw

UPD1 We managed to get a NOT FINAL response from Community Manager @FatsharkCatfish:
https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/83889/5

UPD2 As @gab.rognon aptly pointed out to me, I’m not the only one pay attention about it. I will add below the posts of those who are also frustrated with the situation:

Steam Guides
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3054214775/

Steam Illustrations
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3062324076/

****Who wants to add, send links to negative comments (where there are references to the uneven distribution of aquilas).

Reddit
https://reddit.com/r/DarkTide/s/FnKTAZaqlo

UPD3 (Fatshark’s answer)
https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/86360/

gab.rognon · October 10, 2023, 1:13pm

there is a post from them in the announce about this subject and a post down there about this already.

basicly “we see we have disapointed you, thank you for sharing your feeling, something will be done in the upcoming weeks”.

since giving us the aquila would probably take an hour at best plus two days to get exec approval the community is readying itself to receive a disapoiting helmet as a compensatory reward.

Keln · October 10, 2023, 1:17pm

Greed.
No other way to call it.
We beta tested this… game.
But glad to see the “free” cosmetics are all recolours of the same cr*p

kolomijec · October 10, 2023, 1:27pm

It makes me sad that «as compensation» we can get (along with the rest of the community, and those who got 14K aquilas) a free repainted existing helmet-asset.

FatsharkCatfish · October 10, 2023, 1:41pm

Thank you for your feedback on this, i’m sorry to hear that you are disappointed but this.
You can check our official response here: Update from Fatshark

Once there is an update I will be sure to make another announcement!

kolomijec · October 10, 2023, 1:51pm

Thanks for taking note of my post, @FatsharkCatfish. But I didn’t really understand your answer. What does @Dextixer quote you attached mean? He’s just talking sarcastically and more rudely about the same problem.

CGILantern · October 10, 2023, 1:51pm

Did you reeealy linked an user comment who said “we do not hope for anything as compensatin excep a clow suit” as a official response ?

The highest KEKW of the KEKWs

jesper · October 10, 2023, 1:52pm

I get that people are upset. I have not used my Aquillas that I got from the imperial edition (or whatever it was called) such is my disdain for the cash shop.

FatsharkCatfish · October 10, 2023, 1:53pm

Apologies I was reading through the thread answers before posting the link, and didn’t mean to highlight that particular comment!
I have now edited the link to show our official comms.

gab.rognon · October 10, 2023, 1:53pm

hey catfish, would it be allowed for you to tell us what was the thinking behind such a gift for microsoft newcomers? was this just to get more of them onboard or is there a legal reason with xbox/MS behind this that forced FS to do this?

kolomijec · October 10, 2023, 1:55pm

Thank you @FatsharkCatfish. In this case, we can only expect that you (the Fatshark development team) will not leave this problem gathering dust on the shelf.

kolomijec · October 10, 2023, 1:56pm

This question is very timely. Perhaps it should also be supplemented with the question: Is such an action planned for new Steam players?

CGILantern · October 10, 2023, 2:02pm

Im not sure it was a genuie oopsie or a Freudian slip

k4Qu · October 10, 2023, 3:14pm

is there anyway to refund cosmetics and aquilas? i dont wanna support these dogshit practices. two of the psyker chests i bought, one of the krieg, have so bad clipping its laughable anyways. i dont even get how an artists can release their work like this, its pathetic. ofc you only find that out after you bought them and run around in 3rd person.

kolomijec · October 10, 2023, 3:19pm

To be honest, I (and many people whose answers I read) thought that it would be nice to have a refund option.

Molonious · October 10, 2023, 3:23pm

You can’t get your cash back.

However I was able to get my Aquilas back on the Krieg Veteran cosmetics because of their poor quality (inaccurate modeling, terrible proportions, insanely bad clipping, etc) by highlighting the issues in a support ticket.

kolomijec · October 10, 2023, 3:26pm

I have no illusions that I can get my money back. But I’m just saying that people have thought about it.

(offtop) They returned your aquilas, but also allowed you to keep the costume of a Krieg Corps soldier?

k4Qu · October 10, 2023, 3:30pm

Interesting, better than nothing at least. Cuz Im 100% sure these issues are never getting fixed and those cosmetics are gonna berotting in my stash forever. I wonder what slave wage they pay their artist that they give zero f*cks about delivering finished models. I know a few ppl that work as 3dartists in games and they would do overhours on the weekend rather than delivering scuffed trash like this.

jesper · October 10, 2023, 3:39pm

I personally buy cosmetics to support a project. I don’t care how I look. Fix the crafting system to be something that is even remotely fun and I’ll start buying cosmetics (and possibly come back to the game even).

Woogies · October 10, 2023, 4:03pm

Translation: “We are going to ignore this for a few weeks and hope everyone kinda forgets or spends more money (better hurry before stuff rotates out!)”

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(ANSWERED) 14 000 aquilas to new XBOX Store players, are you serious?

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