Founder Title

Yep. They could have given us...something. Although I think working knowledge of the game was enough- mere personal opinion there. Certainly more valuable than the Founder title (which is sitting in my mail too as of a few hours ago, it seems); not knocking it, though, the title. Gift horses and all that.

You're assuming the point of this -was- to increase resubs, and then argue that it's a terrible way to do it.

You're right. Offering people a title -would- be a terrible way to get people to resub. No one is going to keep playing a game because of a title, no matter how cool the title is. Which is why it should be obvious that this wasn't a retention scheme in the first place.

It's simply a "thank you" gift for those who took the plunge to buy the game early, rather than waiting for the bugs to be ironed out. Nothing more, nothing less. If you seriously think Bioware is planning on getting something in return for this... I don't know what to tell you, man.

Dude.. in order to get the title, you had to resub for at least one month! Don't be naive. This "free" title was them trying to give people incentive to resub. Did they give it to people that paid $60 and didn't resub? Nope. Just those that resubbed.

"So how do you earn the “Founder” title? This reward is only available to players who have completed either one of the following transactions (by March 19th, 2012, 12:01AM EST; Pacific: March 18th, 9:01PM PST; European: 4:01AM GMT, 5:01AM CET):

Billed at least once for an active Star Wars: The Old Republic subscription
OR

Redeemed a Star Wars: The Old Republic Pre-Paid Game Time Code"


Yeah, they weren't using this to give incentive to resub... not at all. Hey nothing wrong with it. I like when companies give me free stuff for something I was going to do anyway, but don't kid yourself. This was about getting people to keep paying.

Oh, dude, cry me a river. People were screaming for beta invites. These boards were almost nothing but QQ over "this other guy got a beta invite and I didn't!" for months before this game launched.

Don't even try not make people feel sorry for you because you got a beta invite.

When people talk about "entitlement issues," that's the kind of thing they're talking about. Honestly, "Feel bad for us beta-testers. We got something for free that hundreds of thousands of people wanted, and now Bioware isn't giving us more free stuff for accepting it?" That's a little sad.

Yeah, they weren't using this to give incentive to resub... not at all. Hey nothing wrong with it. I like when companies give me free stuff for something I was going to do anyway, but don't kid yourself. This was about getting people to keep paying.